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• Cope with PC Problems without Losing Your Mind Three rules for keeping your sanity when faced with yet another glitch.
• Windows 'Black Screen of Death': Not So Widespread? Analysis: The Windows "Black Screen of Death" is striking terror across the Web, but whether it's actually striking any PCs is debatable.
• Microsoft: 'Black Screens of Death' Not Due to Patches Microsoft remains adamant that its security updates are not at fault for widespread "black screen" lock-out of users' PCs.
• Microsoft is Investigating Claims Patches Cause Windows 'Black Screen of Death' Microsoft confirms that November's security updates triggered a black screen on some Windows users' PCs.
• Troubleshoot Windows Remotely Over the Net Microsoft's Internet-based remote-access tools let you quickly fix Windows problems on far-away PCs. Here's how to use them.
• Speed Up Everything Is your PC dragging? Does your broadband network creep along at dial-up speeds? Do Web pages take forever to load on your smartphone? Don't wait! These fixes will get you back into the fast lane.
• Six iPhone Catastrophes — And How to Deal with Them Here's a look at the six top daily dangers for your iPhone — and what to do when disaster strikes.
• iMac Users Grumble About Performance Issues According to posts on Apple's support forum, owners of new iMacs are suffering from performance problems, including extremely sluggish playback of Flash-based video.
• Microsoft Touts Windows 7 Support, Despite Problems Even as its engineers grapple with an "endless reboot" problem, Redmond toots its horn about 'Action Center,' Windows 7's automated troubleshooting system.
• Stop Windows from Rebooting After Automatic Updates Automated system updates: good. Automated rebooting to apply those updates: bad. Very, very bad. Here's how to stop it from happening.
• BlackBerry 'Self-Service Module' Helps Users Help Themselves BoxTone product aims to provide easy-to-access, step-by-step issue resolution instructions to users, so they can solve their own problems without calling on IT.
• Automated Tool Tracks Business Hardware and Software Network Inventory Advisor saves time from manually maintaining a list of PC software and hardware details, even alerting you if an employee makes a change.
• Smartphone Tool Improves IT Response Time Rove Mobile Admin could reduce your technology downtime by letting IT workers manage issues from a smartphone.
• Be Everywhere At Once With Remote Access Software Techinline lets you troubleshoot remote PCs, trimming the cost of just walking down a hall to flying across the country.
• Is it Safe to Just Ignore Windows' Service Packs? Don Dalton installed Vista's SP1 update, encountered "a multitude of problems," and uninstalled it. Can he safely go on indefinitely without it?
• Fast Fixes for Common PC Problems Struggling with dead components, a recalcitrant Windows, and uncooperative applications? Our easy hardware repairs, simple software remedies, and quick tweaks will put your PC in the pink.
• MyBoxTone Expert for BlackBerry The myBoxTone Expert BlackBerry application provides enterprise smartphone users with a variety of intuitive, on-device troubleshooting tools to address performance issues without a trip to the help desk, potentially saving time, boosting productivity and cutting tech support costs.
• Find Solutions to Tech Problems at FixYa This community-supported site offers free troubleshooting help and replacement manuals.
• Eliminate Hassles With Antivirus, Flash, Task Manager, and iTunes Get the lead out of AVG, fix the Windows Task Manager toolbar, and dump duplicate files.
• Troubleshoot Your Boot-Up and Shutdown Problems Does your PC hang, complain, or flat-out blue-screen when you start it up or shut it down? PC World's Lincoln Spector has answers to readers' most perplexing boot and shutdown questions.
• How to Do Everything Faster 22 smarter, more efficient ways to make short work of common tech tasks--from reinstalling Windows to crushing spyware to setting up a Web site.