Climb the steps all the way to Windows guru status with our invaluable selection of tips and shortcuts for XP and Vista.

Guarantee your data is secure by backing it up remotely. We test six of the most popular services.

Ever wondered what a particular acronym stands for? Find the answer in our comprehensive reference guide to computer industry acronyms. RTFM!

Your photos, music and data are just a virus or hard disk failure away from oblivion. Build a triple-layer defence using PC Authority's practical guide.

Unless you keep your computer disconnected from a network and under secure lock and key there will always be the potential for prying eyes to access the data on your hard disk.

Can't find a file? Tim Dean looks at some tips to make Windows XP's Search work for you.

Your wireless network is more powerful than you imagine. Use this guide to fully understand and utilise it.

It turns out that Microsoft [I]is[/I] bringing out Windows XP Media Center Edition in Australia, but until such time as it materialises -- and Microsoft Australia is being very sketchy on the dates -- those of us looking to integrate our PC media files with our televisions and hi-fi systems have to turn to bridging solutions.

If your PC is lacking storage space then give it some extra room with these four internal hard disks.

One way Windows 7 will make working lives a damn sight easier is the speed at which it hunts down documents and other files.

Is Vista’s suave new interface and menu system window dressing or a radical improvement in usability?

PC-cillin 2000 is extremely easy to set up out of the box, particularly since there are few setup screens to wade through during installation. PC-cillin was one of the few packages that scanned memory and critical files before installing, thus ensuring that it did not further spread viruses on an infected system.

Data recovery is a mystical and varied art that shares much with archaeology. Depending on where you dig for data you may or may not find what you are looking for, and the longer you leave going after your lost data the greater the chance it will be worn away by age and reduced to fragments of its former self.

Do you have a business or are in charge of a business’ tech security? Get some tips from PC Authority’s experts.

Testing anti-virus software is a tricky endeavour at the best of times, due to the inherent nasty nature of the test subject. For this anti-virus roundup, we asked independent anti-virus testing lab, AV-Test.org (www.av-test.org) to conduct the testing for us in their controlled environments. AV-Test.org has access to thousands of viruses, and is a respected anti-virus testing lab.

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Are you a Linux user longing for iTunes? A bit of time and a little custom software can bring music to your ears.

Native playback of DivX and XviD files is one of the most potentially useful additions to Windows 7. Here's what you need to know.

Norman Virus Control is a very unobtrusive anti-virus program that sits in your system tray and performs much like Norton AntiVirus from Symantec. It scans all incoming emails, new files, removable media and downloaded files from the internet as a matter of course without any user interaction.

The PC was meant to make our lives easier, but as software gets more complicated and operating systems become richer in features, it's hard to remember who's serving who.