Ensure you'll never accidentally get locked out of your PC: create a password recovery disk for Windows XP. XP is the most secure of all Windows versions. However, if you have one Administrative ...

There's one immutable law of PCs: sh*t happens. And when it does, there's usually a way to fix things, if you had the foresight to create one essential recovery tool first. Booting from a USB recovery ...

I figured this would be the best place to post, as the initial part of my problem relates to DD. Someone re-installed XP, and formatted the drive in the process. I'm hoping I can make an image with dd ...

If your office is running older Windows XP workstations, you might no longer have the original installation media. Murphy's law dictates that one of those computers will develop serious operating ...

Not 100% sure this belongs here, but here goes. I need to remove Sasser from my computer. I did not realise I had it until my computer began to BSOD seconds before the login prompt. Being that I dont ...

This includes tasks such as repairing a broken partition table, cloning a failing drive to a new disk before the old one dies completely, or simply changing a corrupted file that is preventing the ...

THERE’S A CERTAIN magical quality to the operating system that comes with some PCs. It’s there, but it’s not there. For several years now we’ve been airing reader gripes about the shortcomings of the ...