Is your PC the stable, error-free platform you need? We didn't think so. Leigh Dyer, David Kidd and Ty Pendlebury present the essential guide to fixing your PC.

Looked outside lately? David Kidd expects more from the Microsoft machine

The number two Phillips head screwdriver is a powerful beast. I remember, as a wee lad, watching my father encounter a problem and reach straight for the little green handled wonder, with its chrome steel shank.

BitComet is the friendliest inclusion in this roundup.

Laplink's ShareDirect takes a different approach to the others on test.

Intel has announced a new gamer-focused Pentium 4 processor, in an attempt to capture the high-end desktop consumer market.

Evil has never been so much fun.

Pyro Studios, the development team behind the Commandos series, has turned its hand to the hybrid RTS/ table-top strategy genre – a genre which consists primarily of Creative Assembly’s brilliant Total War games.

Backing up data is the job you know you need to do, yet rarely get around to doing it.

WASTE is a no-nonsense app that does one thing: sharing directories.

FIC’s Spectra is a slick, quiet, living-room friendly unit.

uTorrent is stands tall among the many BitTorrent clients out there.

Grouper's feature set is impressive, but Qnext takes the gong for the most extraneous features crammed into what is essentially filesharing tool.

Grouper is an all-in-one filesharer, that facilitates both private and public sharing.

The week ending 25/11 is the week starting for BitTorrent Bram and his new crusade.

This is as bare as it gets with BitTorrent.

There's a wealth of information available for Linux virgins, or Lingins, to help them install the operating system and get it up and running.

This is a game that pushes PC hardware to the limit, and puts so called ‘next-gen’ consoles to shame.