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How-to Guides / Tutorials

Title Hitssort icon
How to Make Vista Run Faster 445,442
Optimizing Vuze (formerly Azureus) for Speed 376,273
How to Back up Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird 258,649
Optimizing µTorrent for Speed 253,010
How to Disable Internet Explorer 193,455
How to Move the My Documents Folder 163,272
Optimizing the Transmission Bittorrent Client for Speed 119,887
Gizmo's Guide to Securing Your PC 114,305
How to Make Firefox Load Faster 113,719
Searching for Torrents (Torrent Search Sites) 100,969
How to Hide a Windows Folder 96,257
How to Work With Audio CD .CDA Files 82,384
How to Install Firefox 79,899
Never Re-install Windows Again Part 2: Partitioning your hard drive 71,501
How to Surf More Securely 68,224
32 bit and 64 bit explained 56,531
How to Remove Google Text Ads 56,290
Never Re-install Windows Again Part 1 48,666
Migrating to Mozilla Firefox 46,902
Never Re-install Windows Again Part 3: Imaging your hard drive 46,587
The Three Most Under-utilized Keyboard Shortcuts 44,069
Tips and Tricks for Ubuntu after Installation 43,416
How to Block Bad Websites 39,951
Optimizing BitComet for Speed 38,889
How to Schedule Programs to Run Automatically 36,438
Additional Vuze Settings 35,155
How to Create a Bootable Rescue CD 34,477
Optimizing Bittorrent Clients for Speed 33,343
How to Create a Program Launcher 32,129
How to Improve Your Security When Using a Public Terminal 29,951
Installing Media Player Classic - A step by step guide 29,592
Best Free Typing Tutor 28,061
Tweaking and performance guide for XP, Vista, and Windows 7 25,905
How to Find Out Which Windows Process is Using a File 25,663
How to build and host a website for free - 1 24,444
HIPS Explained 23,338
Free Downloadable PDF Tech Guides and Tutorials 23,028
Finding Legal (and Free) Torrents 21,431
How to Remove the NAG Screen from Diskeeper Lite 21,321
Safe Computing in Under an Hour 18,902
How to Unlock Extra Functions on Canon Compact Digital Cameras 18,392
How to Tame Comodo Defense+ Without Disabling It 17,866
Encryption is Not Enough 17,065
How to Stop Vista Objecting to Programs at Startup 15,219
How to Reduce Spam 13,298
How to Disable the Microsoft Java Virtual Machine (MSJVM) 13,062
How to Remove Unwanted Formatting from Text 12,736
Additional µTorrent Settings 12,270
How to Set Up Your Own Web Server 12,219
How to build and host a website for free - 2 12,066
How to rip DVD movies using freeware HandBrake 11,241
Tips and Tricks to Make Full Use of Favorite Links 10,937
How to Convert PDF Files to Word Doc Files for Free 10,294
How to Backup the Windows Registry 10,178
How to Use Mouse Shortcuts 8,041
Best Use For An Old Machine 7,883
How to update Firefox or Thunderbird addons to work with a new release 7,032
How to Find Out the Real Manufacturer of a Recordable DVD 6,083
ReInstalling Windows 5,628
How to Create a BartPE disk Containing Acronis Universal Restore 5,039
How to create certain number of full+incremental backup archives with Acronis 4,852
Optimizing Tixati For Speed 3,946
Optimizing Halite For Speed 3,941
How to Suggest a New Software Category 3,812
How to Convert CSV to TSV files by Batch 3,417
How to Write Compelling Articles on Technical Topics 3,349
How to Install Comodo Firewall 3,019
Best Free Security Diet Plan 2,783
How To Use the Snipping Tool in Vista 2,580
How to Launch any Program Quickly Using Vista's Run Command. 2,407
How to Interpret a Top Download List on Your Favorite Download Sites 2,328
How to create a Multi episode DVD with DVDStyler 2,204
Use OpenWithAdd and Other Methods to Run a File with the Program you Want 1,186
How to Tell if a File is Malicious 778
How to Report Spam 433