From HelpDeskWiki

Welcome to HelpDeskWiki

The idea is for this to become a comprehensive reference for various computer issues and their troubleshooting steps, workarounds, and fixes. Everyone is welcome to contribute. To contribute, just click on Edit this page at the bottom of the page that you think you can improve. If you're unfamiliar with wiki-style markup, and so forth, see the Wikipedia article How to edit a page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page).

For computer security issues, please see Infosecpedia (http://www.infosecpedia.org).

For discussion of general computer-related topics, see Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org), which has a wealth of detail.

Wondering what a "wiki" is? See this article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki).

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Topics

• How to ask questions
• Questions Got an issue? Post it here.
• Basics of safe computing
• Technician tools
• Wireless networking
• Hardware
  • Computers
    • 64-bit CPUs
    • Memory
  • Displays
  • Printers
  • Drives
    • Drive failure
  • Network hardware
  • Choosing a computer
  • Choosing computer parts online
• Software
  • Causes of computer slowdown
  • Malware (viruses, spyware, etc.)
    • Anti-spyware software
    • Anti-virus software
    • Malware blocking and avoidance
    • Blocking offensive material
  • Microsoft Windows
    • Adding language support
    • Cloning Windows and replacing motherboards
    • Fine-tuning Windows
    • Microsoft Windows keyboard shortcuts
    • Open File - Security Warning
    • Windows Applications
    • Windows cleanup
    • Windows System Utilities
      • Command prompt
    • XP Mode
  • Web browser software
    • Firefox
    • Microsoft Internet Explorer
      • Fixing Internet Explorer
    • Windows Internet Explorer 7
• Store policies
• Manifest proposal
• Predictions
• Shopping online
• Chain letters

Off-topic stuff:

• Charities and scams
• Thoughts about meeting aliens
• Carsharing
  • Proposal for carsharing in Ft Hood
  • Thoughts for Ft Hood carsharing

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Message from the founder

At present, I have in mind something dedicated to computers, somewhat in a tutorial style, so that if you wanted to know how to do a self-test on an Axiohm ColorPOS point-of-sale printer, how to clear CMOS on an IBM PS/2, or how to recover data from a hard drive with a fried circuit board (all things that I've had to do), as well as more common questions, you could look it up here. Since it is a wiki, anyone who knows something about a subject that might be of interest, but which information is not already available on the site, can contribute within seconds of their first visit, just by clicking on the Edit link. Even people new to computers often know things that old-timers don't know. For example, I learned about Ctrl + "+" (plus sign on number pad) from a non-tech fairly recently (it resizes all columns in a list in Windows Explorer, and doesn't seem to be documented, but many programs support it), and now I use it on a regular basis.

Thanks for visiting, and I hope that you'll both benefit and contribute.

--Scott.

Scott McNay, aka "HelpDesk"