Michael "Doc" Callahan leads us through the process for reinstalling Windows on your computer. Over time, Windows XP gets corrupted and your system slows to a crawl. Doc explains why you may want to reinstall Windows XP and goes through the process in detail in this step-by-step guide to installing Windows XP video series.

Did you know inkjet printer ink costs over four thousand dollars a gallon? Learn how to print websites without the background colors and images to save printing time and valuable ink!

TuneUp is a great companion for iTunes. It's a way to fix your music when the tracks names get messed up or when you want to find cover art for your music. TuneUp will clean your music, find that cover art and more.

Spotlight is great for finding just about anything on your Mac. You can find documents, text inside of documents, graphics, songs and more. Sometimes you may need to focus your Spotlight search to hone the results. This is when you need to move your search to a full Spotlight search window for better results.

Every copy of Windows you've probably ever seen has a Taskbar down at the bottom of the screen. But who says it has to be at the bottom of the screen? You can move the Windows Taskbar and put it where you want it: top, bottom or on either side of your desktop. Here's how.

With the release of Windows Vista, Microsoft included Windows Defender in the standard installation. Windows Defender is available as a free download for Windows XP users. We'll show you how to set it up so it runs the way you want it to.

When you have a home network it's handy to be able to share files and folders between computers. In order to do that, however, you have to opt-in to share your drive on the network. Here's how to do it.

Sound Recorder is a built-in application in Windows that allows you to create your own sound clips. Maybe you want to make your voice echo or create sounds for your chat client, or maybe you just want to record a personal greeting that plays when Windows starts. Windows Sound Recorder will allow you to do just that. It's simple and easy-to-use.

When you have a home network all of your computers, including virtual machines, should be in the same "workgroup." When you connect to other computers in your workgroup you can share files, folders, printers and more. Here's how to find other computers and devices on your network using Windows.

Creating your own icons for your files and folders is a great way to express yourself. It's also a great way to organize your computer so you know at a glance what a folder contains. You can create your own icons using your favorite images, like photos or graphics.

In cars, a firewall is what separates the passenger compartment from the engine. It's designed to delay a fire from burning from one side to another. In computers a firewall has a similar function. It's designed to prevent unauthorized transmissions from one network, like the Internet, to another, like your home network and personal computer.

By default Windows Vista uses certain programs to work with certain data. It uses Windows Mail for email, for example, and Windows Calendar for calendar items. If you prefer to use other programs you can go in and change the default programs. Here's how.

Windows Safe Mode can save your computer. Sometimes you install a piece of software and your PC starts acting funny. You install some new device and your computer start locking up. In a number of cases you have to start Windows in Safe Mode so you can remove the offending piece of software or make other corrections.

The find command is so useful that it's present in web browsers, many applications and even operating systems. Use the find command to quickly and easily search within a web page that's open in your favorite browser, search for a word or phrase in a Microsoft Word document or use it to search for a file or folder on your computer.

Windows provides you with a little utility called Scheduled Tasks that you can use to run programs. Run them each day, weekly, monthly, or even multiple times a day. The program is easy-to-use and easy to manage.

Like other web browsers, Opera comes with a default home page. Odds are you're going to want to change it. Opera gives you quite a few options when it comes to a Home page. You can use things from saved sessions, the last session, a blank page, and more.

We've shown you how to set multiple Home pages in Firefox. Now it's Internet Explorer's turn.

Internet Explorer uses Microsoft's website as its home page. If you'd like to see a different page, or even multiple pages, when Internet Explorer loads, it's easy to do. We'll show you how.

Firefox allows you to set your Home page screen to whatever page you want. Sometimes you find a page so useful, you want to see it every time you fire up your web browser. Perhaps it's a favorite search engine or online email service, a site you check every time you log on or a personal or business site you need to keep tabs on. If you want, you can also set Firefox to open multiple home pages each time the browsers is run.

Spyware is a scourge. It slows down your system and can "phone home," sometimes sending your personal details to shady characters. Generally speaking, it offers no benefit to you, the computer user. We'll run down the process for getting rid of spyware on your computer using Windows Defender.

Michael "Doc" Callahan leads us through the process for reinstalling Windows on your computer. Over time, Windows XP gets corrupted and your system slows to a crawl. Doc explains why you may want to reinstall Windows XP and goes through the process in detail in this step-by-step guide to installing Windows XP video series.

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