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Compress Files

Some files can be too big to be quickly transferred across the Internet or between PCs. This guide describes how to use the WinZip program to compress files for easier transfer and storage.

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5 Steps To Keep Your PC Safe Online

There are some simple steps you can take to ensure your PC remains protected while you surf the Web. Following each of these five guides can help protect your PC from virus, spyware and other online threats.

Organize Your Files, Folders and Shortcuts

This article explains how to work with files, folders and shortcuts in Windows.

Create And Backup Favorites

This guide explains how to create and backup your Favorites bookmarks. It also shows how to arrange these links to your favourite web sites into folders.

Play Music And Video Files

A guide to using the Winamp media player, a free program that is capable of playing many types of music and video files.

Preventing Spam

This guide explains Spam and Phishing, how to avoid junk mail in your e-mail account and how to protect yourself from malicious spammers.

Back Up E-mails In Outlook Express

This article describes how to back up your Outlook Express e-mail files and how to retrieve them later.

The Best Free Software

This article features information about Open Source software that can be downloaded for free, and can be used as an alternative to expensive commercial programs.

Set Up Instant Messaging

This article describes how to install Windows Live Messenger to send and receive messages instantly.


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Make web pages easier to read

To make text on web pages easier to read, click on View (or Page in Internet Explorer 7) then Text Size and choose a larger size.

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AutoReplace

AutoReplace is a free text search and replacement tool for text editing or programming.

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View our Computer Jargon page for explanations of common computer and internet terms used on this site.

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