Tim is the Senior Staff Writer of Computeractive. He was previously a Labs Tester for the magazine and joined the editorial team in 2002. He takes care of technical questions and answers, demonstrates how to take on PC projects on Computeractive TV and writes for the Windows Watch blog.

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