Lincoln Spector - Author - Good Gear Guide

Stories by Lincoln Spector

Article | 21/01/2010 Toshiba BDX2000 Blu-ray player

At first glance, the slim Toshiba BDX2000--the company's first Blu-ray Disc player--seems unexceptional, with limited extras and a boxy remote. But wh...

Article | 19/01/2010 Windows 7's built-in backup

Robert wants to know if Windows 7's built-in backup program is worth using.

Article | 12/01/2010 How to migrate to a new PC

Windows 7 comes with a pretty good migration tool--certainly better than the XP or Vista versions--but it's not perfect. I won't give you step-by-step...

Article | 1/01/2010 Restore data after motherboard death

Peter's motherboard died. How can he retrieve the data on his hard drive?

Article | 30/12/2009 Add WiFi to a very old laptop

Raul Maristany wants to add WiFi to an aging laptop. Is it possible? If the laptop has a PC card slot, it should be able to take a wireless PC card.

Article | 30/12/2009 How to optimize your HDTV

You've bought the HDTV. You've set it up, plugged everything into it. Maybe you've even calibrated it for the best possible picture. But you're not do...

Article | 22/12/2009 Remove Windows 7 from a dual boot

Following my advice in Dual-Boot with Windows 7, Dale Bevan set up a dual boot with Windows 7. He now wants to remove the new OS and stick with the ol...

Article | 14/12/2009 How to diagnose a bad Wi-Fi connection

Network problems are the thorniest to resolve. They've been known to reduce my vocabulary to curses so strong they'd embarrass Quentin Tarantino.

Article | 9/12/2009 Optimise Your HDTV

You've bought the HDTV. You've set it up, plugged everything into it. Maybe you've even calibrated it for the best possible picture.

Article | 8/12/2009 The computer maintenance flash drive

In "Applications on a Flash Drive," I mentioned that I keep a flash drive with portable diagnostic tools I use for fixing friends' and relatives' PCs....

Article | 7/12/2009 Steampunk tech mods: A 19th-century take on 21st-century PCs and gadgets

We may have awesome technology, but our great-grandparents had awesome-looking technology. And therein lies much of the appeal of the Steampunk moveme...

Article | 26/11/2009 Securely wipe a dead hard drive

Hard drives almost always contain some potentially compromising information, such as credit card and social security numbers. You should always wipe a...

Article | 24/11/2009 How To: Move Your Old Email to Win7

Marsha Naylor wants a way to access her old Outlook Express and Windows Mail messages in Windows 7.

Article | 20/11/2009 When the backup drive gets full

Rat74136's external hard drive is full. He asked the Answer Line forum how to keep backing up.

Article | 17/11/2009 How to dual-boot with Windows 7

Installing Windows 7 while keeping an older version of the operating system is a great idea if you have enough spare hard drive space. It allows you t...