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7 Ways to Really Mess Up Your PC

...and 49 other articles, tips and musings from a renegade computer expert

Table of Contents

Articles
The Top 7 Ways to Really Mess up your PC 1
Getting Files from Another PC 5
Changing the Text Size On Screen 9
Gift Shopping Websites 17
The Start Menu 21
How to Run Old Software 26
The 9 Biggest Improvements to PCs 29
Apple Macs 34
Open Source Software 37
Playing CDs using Media Player 41
Good and Bad Places to Buy PCs etc 45
How to Choose a New PC 51
Email Scams 57
Storing your Photos 60
The 9 Most Ridiculous Things about PCs 65
Internet Nasties 71
Graphics Formats 77
Making a Notelet from a Photo 82
Emailing Photos from Abroad 87
How to Find Someone's Postcode 92
Getting Help 97
7 Predictions about the Future of Computers...
(including one that isn't quite about computers)
100
Other Tips and Musings
Questions I get asked all the time 8, 20, 36, 43, 50, 56, 64, 70, 86
Nifty Websites and Downloads 15, 19, 25, 28, 44, 55, 63, 75, 99
Word to the Wise 4, 16, 33, 35, 40, 59, 76, 81, 91, 96