Corrupted HAL.dll file makes Windows XP Home unable to load. This would be fixed by a simple reinstall of Windows XP, but it would delete her My Documents file. The only access I have to the computer ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the past year alone, I've had four near-fatal drive failures, each on a different system. To alleviate some of the pain associated with recovering from these kinds of problems, I've been working on ...

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 ...