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Your computer's power supply is a critical component. But how can you tell if your power supply is powerful enough, or if it's about to die? How do you decide what kind and capacity of power supply to buy, and how difficult is it to replace a power supply yourself? Don't wait until smoke and flames are shooting out of your computer. 
In the Cool But Creepy department, will your car obey signals from space? Would you like a laptop that rolls up like a newspaper? And can you picture yourself sitting in a nook, taking a look at a Nook book cookbook? 
The browser wars are endless, as Internet Explorer and Firefox continually improve, add features, crash, and improve again. Both browsers take you to the same Internet, and have pretty much the same feature set. Both let you open multiple windows or tabs, both have a "private browsing" mode and each browser has a full-featured set of bookmarking and privacy tools. Neither can leap tall buildings in a single bound, or stop a speeding locomotive. 
If you're using Windows Defender, you should know about another free Microsoft security tool. Microsoft has released Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE), which protects against a broader spectrum of malware than Defender does, including viruses, rootkits, and trojans as well as spyware. MSE is meant to replace both your existing anti-spyware and anti-virus programs. 
A reader asks: "Recently I lost my phone, and along with it, all my contacts, music, text messages and apps. It's been expensive and time consuming to reconstruct everything, so I'm looking for a way to back up all the data on my cell phone. What do you recommend?" Many people have a lot of vital data that exists only on their mobile phones: contacts, email, notes, appointments, documents, pictures, and especially text messages. 
The Windows registry is a database of settings for Windows features, programs, data files, and computer hardware. When errors creep into the registry, Windows may behave oddly or not work at all. Registry errors can occur for a number of reasons, including poorly written software or unexpected shutdowns. Over time, every registry accumulates erroroneous and unused entries, that can make Windows run slower and sometimes interfere with the startup of certain programs. If you experience such symptoms, you should clean up your registry. 
