Whether you have a program you no longer need, or a hard drive that's out of space, you may well find that you need to know how to remove an app from your PC. This brief guide explains how to go about doing this in a couple of simple steps.

One of our blogs this month outlined whether you should upgrade the components in your PC, or whether you should just replace it. This is all well and good if you know what's in your machine, but what if you don't? Our HowTo this month explains where you can find details on the internals of your PC.

You may have seen one of the many news stories in recent months that blue light from monitors can be harmful to your health and interrupt your sleep patterns. In this month's HowTo, we look at a Windows 10 feature that seeks to rectify this.

We thought it might be useful to provide a brief overview of the mobile world in our how to section this month. With the lines between the various devices we use becoming increasingly blurred, many people spend at least as much time looking at their mobile as they do their "main" device. We take a look at whether you actually even need a new phone at all, and make some recommendations to those that do.

Windows 10 defaults to collecting vast amounts of your data (anonymously). Unless you've deliberately told it otherwise, your machine will be doing this now. This month's HowTo blog explains how to locate Windows 10's privacy settings and change this if you prefer that it didn't.

Google have now introduced a web version of their Messages app that allows you to link your mobile with any other device. You can then send text messages via that device. This guide explains how to get this set up on your phone.

This month's HowTo provides an explanation as to how to go about using Mailchimp to create a email to send out to a distribution list. Mailchimp has millions of options, so it won't be possible to cover all of these. Instead, we will just look at the most basic path to getting your message out to the people you want to send it to!

Remember when your PC was brand new and it seemed to respond instantly to every request? And now there's some days you're lucky if it even acknowledges that you've even asked it to do something? Our HowTo this months suggests some steps you can take to try and give your machine a bit of a speed boost.