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Can I use a USB Wifi adapter on a desktop PC?

Modern laptops usually have built-in Wifi but desktop PCs rarely have wireless facilities included

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Create line numbers in Open Office

Turn line numbering on to organise text documents

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Improve security in Dropbox

Up safety settings on your Dropbox account to keep your documents as protected as possible while they are in online storage

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Create line numbers in Word

Add numbers to each line of a Microsoft Word document with Page Setup options

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15 free Android apps

Our round-up of the best apps that you don't have to pay a penny to download

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  • 11/01/2013
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Small Basic Guide: 5. Making a complete program

We put all of the lessons from the previous lessons together into a full program

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Lock worksheets in Microsoft Excel

How to stop people editing or viewing certain sections of a shared document

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Convert images to text with a free tool called Simple OCR

Turn printed or scanned files into text documents that can be edited

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Get the Start button back in Windows 8 with Classic Shell

Use a free tool called Classic Shell to add the familiar Start button and menu to Windows 8

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Has Windows Vista ceased?

Windows withdrew support for Vista in April 2012, but can you still use the operating system? Read on to find out

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Why is my IP address Spanish?

A reader says his computer has an IP address associated with a location in Spain. Has his PC been hijacked? We explain

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  • 01/01/2013
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Use Windows on a Mac computer

Don’t give up your favourite apps when you move to Apple Mac – it can even run Windows

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I can’t enable Windows Firewall

Some Windows XP users have found problems when trying to enable the firewall

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Virtual drive

A set of files seen by Windows as a separate hard disk.

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