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Build your own cut-price surveillance equipment

Has your PC frozen during an update? Here's how to get it running again

Reduce your reliance on big vendors by learning how to spin up your own private cloud

Move your comms to the cloud and ditch your physical PBX box

Google’s streaming stick is a great travelling companion, but how can you use Chromecast without Wi-Fi?

Find out how to turn on, or off, Windows Defender on Windows 10 and older versions of Windows

The move to a solid-state disk will make your Windows PC faster

How to install Docker and start working with containerised applications

Tips covering everything from upgrade issues and freeing up storage, to solving privacy errors and using safe mode

Worried your device is infected? Here are the best free tools you need to get rid of malicious software

If you are planning on ditching your old computer, formatting a hard drive is almost always a necessary thing to do

Are you inadvertently sharing sensitive information online? We reveal how to identify data leaks and plug the holes in your privacy

Here's how to make files, messages and other data vanish automatically after a specific length of time

With Hotmail now known as Outlook.com, IT Pro offers a helping hand with navigating Microsoft's email service

DDoS attacks are increasing - here's how to fight back

Want to become an Outlook expert? Here are the 18 best Outlook tips that can make handling your email and appointments quicker and easier

The definitive guide to connecting one, two or more monitors to your laptop

Is your Windows 10 Start menu not working? Here's how to get it back

Our helpful guide to getting past the awkward problem of forgetting your phone's passcode

A guide to the CPU security flaws and their flawed patches

What to do if you accidentally hit the delete button on that message in Gmail

How the ICO will measure GDPR compliance, and whether a certificate means anything