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Vinny La Bash's Index
Practicing the Black Art

2008
January	Evaluating Your Anti-Spyware Program
February	All Computers Wait At The Same Speed
March	How To Forward Email
April	Buying An All-In-One Printer
May	Buying a Mouse - More important than you might think!
June	PC Pitstop – The Ultimate Tune-up
July	Using Vista’s Hidden Disk Cleanup Options
August	Using CrossLoop to Troubleshoot and Control Remote Machines
September	-Practicing the Black Art
October	-Practicing the Black Art
November	-Practicing the Black Art
December	-Practicing the Black Art

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2007
January	Conquering The Big Red X
February	Video For Vista
March	Windows XP Upgrade To Vista
April	Recovering Files From a Hard Drive
May	Info, Info Everywhere and Not a Thought to Think
June	Windows Vista Power Management
July	Dumb Things to Avoid While Using Your Computer
August	Vista and the Reliability & Performance Monitor
September	Backing Up In Windows Vista
October	Make Vista Work Better
November	Partitioning Disk Drives With Vista
December	A Laptop For The Holidays

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2006
January	Clear Reading With Cleartype-Practicing the Black Art
February	Do Anti-Spam Programs Really Work?
March	Upgrading Your Monitor
April	Why Do We Get So Much Spam?
May	Managing Device Drivers
June	Essential Processes, How You Can Tell
July	VHS to DVD
August	Windows XP and Speech Recognition
September	Should Your System Be RAIDed
October	The Part of Backup Nobody Mentions
November	Free Up Megabytes of Disk Space
December	VCom System Suite 7- The King Of Utility Suites

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2005
January	System Restore
February	Transfering Data
March	Microsoft's Free Anti-Spyware Beta
April	Browser Doohickeys, Doodads & Gizmos
May	Effective Use Of Task Manager
June	Windows XP Event Viewer
July	Making Sense of Chip Speeds
August	Sharing Your World
September	Privacy and Anonymity On The Web
October	Indexing The Web
November	Locked Out Of Your Computer
December	Buying a PC For The Holidays

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2004
January	Understanding Folders in Windows XP
February	Understanding USB
March	Automate Defrag in Windows XP
April	Adding Safe Mode To Your Windows XP Boot Menu
May	What Your Computer Really Does When It's Idle
June	Finding Hidden Programs
July	Choosing a Power Supply
August	Browser Power
September	Quiet Please
October	Notify The Notification Area
November	Gmail
December	Googlewhacking

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2003
January	XP Desktop Icons
February	Give Yourself The Boot From CD-ROM
March	Repair The XP Search Engine, Did You Know It Was Broken?
April	Using Remote Assistance
May	Avoid Email Goofs
June	The Password Dilemma
July	Is Your Printer A Spendthrift?
August	Managing Your Favorites Menu in Internet Explorer
September	You Are Being Watched
October	Choosing a Surge Suppressor
November	Microsoft Error Reporting
December	Elementary, My Dear Watson

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2002
January	XP Defaults
February	Are you saved?
March	Internet Explorer Links Toolbar
April	Performance issues in Windows
May	Windows XP Taskbar
June	Hey Dude, you're gettin' a homebrew!-Building your own PC Controlling font size on Web pages
July	Homebrew part II-Building your own PC System Restore
August	Windows XP Newsgroups
September	Evaluating Web pages
October	Understanding the Save As dialog box
November	Energy Star and Power States
December	Why Is My System Soooo Sloooow?

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2001
January	Practicing the Black Art Preview Enhanced
February	Close Program Dialog Box
March	Sound Off
April	Link Websites to your spreadsheet
May	Create your own animated screen saver
June	Open with... what?
July	Know your fonts
August	Running System File Checker
September	Understanding Ports
October	Unique Folder Icons
November	Drag and Drop with the Right Mouse Button
December	Installing new components

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2000
January	Accessibility Options
February	Strange things on the Desktop
March	Liven up your mouse
April	Windows 2000 - Should you make the move?
May	Lotto Machine
June	Backup your data
July	Better Backups
August	The Recycle Bin
September	Understanding Windows Clipboard Viewer
October	Having fun with Windows' Splash Screen
November	Using the Find Tool
December	The Find Tool continued...

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1999
January	Express Delivery
February	Add an Open with Option-
March	Real Rate of Return-
April	Dress up your folders-
May	Task Scheduler-
June	Bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes and the size of drives, files and folders
July	The Effect of Compounding-
August	Importing external data from the Web into Excel -
September	Controlling Startup in Windows 98-
October	Spotting Internet Hoaxes-
November	Special characters & symbols-
December	Partitioning your hard disks-

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1998
January	Happy New Year! - Notes Is this a good investment, or what?
February	Should you buy a new PC or upgrade? - Notes Calculate cluster waste accurately
March	Intel chips away at 1998 - Notes Calculate cluster waste accurately - Part II and Start your day with a song
April	Being green is easy-Notes Changing your hard drive's icon
May	Backup Blues-Notes Free Plus! Tab here!
June	Why PCs Crash-Notes Prevent programs from running on startup
July	The Eternal Dilemma-When I'm not using my PC, should I leave it on or turn it off? - Notes Make your scroolbars a useful size
August	Windows 98: To upgrade or not?-Notes Instant access to screensavers
September	Something for nothing-Notes Blame it on the icons
October	Something for nothing-Notes Thumbs up!
November	Enhanced member benefit-Notes How Much Video RAM Do You Really Need?
December	Should you replace your floppy dinosaur?-Notes Automate email Passwords

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1997
January	Welcome to 1997
February	The Millennium Plague
March	Internet Search Tools
April	Read Any Good Readme Files Lately?
May	The World Wide Web or The World Wide Watchdog?
June	Have you tossed your "cookies" yet?
July	56.6K bps modems - not so fast!
August	How many bytes? Billions and billions and....
September	The Future of the Web
October	Push or Pull?
November	Congress should stay out of Cyberspace
December	A Digital What for the Holidays?

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