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Tips & Tricks Winners
| Month | Tip | Winner | Location | Prize |
| January 2008 | Firefox - multiple home pages in separate tabs | Vinny | Conneticut | $100 |
| Send big files & Photos, Drag & Drop | Charles | Indiana | $100 | |
| How To Secure Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003 & VISTA | Alexander | New York | $100 | |
| December 2007 | Keyboard Shortcuts | Arthur | Texas | $100 |
| Online shopping tips | Jerry | Texas | $100 | |
| Like everest but more info | Allen | Illinois | $100 | |
| November 2007 | Want a New Bootscreen? | Jeri C | Washington | $100 |
| October 2007 | Process Explorer | Edward B | Canada | $100 |
| Handy Items for Control Panel | Jerry S | Texas | $100 | |
| Build Your Own PC | Richard G | Canada | $100 | |
| September 2007 | Save All Open Docs | Mindy | Texas | $100 |
| Super XP Tweak Guide | Chris | Arizona | $100 | |
| August 2007 | Vista Speed Boost | Bryan W | California | $100 |
| Valuable Vista Tweaks | Michael W | Indiana | $100 | |
| July 2007 | Sharing Keyboards and Mice | Charles C | Indiana | $100 |
| Play DVDs in Vista Media Player | Jeri C | Washington | $100 | |
| June 2007 | Screen Capture Made Easy | Jeri C | Washington | $100 |
| Opaque Icons | Edward B | Canada | $100 | |
| May 2007 | Make Your Own Icons | Mindy R | Texas | $100 Amazon Card |
| Add Item to Send To menu | Charles C | Indiana | $100 | |
| April 2007 | Caps Lock Tip | Edward B | Canada | $100 |
| Full Test in Vista | Matt | Indiana | ||
| March 2007 | Firefox and Vista | Richard G | Canada | $100 |
| Free Applications | Bruce C | Massachusetts | ||
| February 2007 | Page file | Ken R | Texas | $200 |
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| Outgoing Firewall | Doug T | North Dakota | ||
| Run Command | ||||
| January 2007 | Vista Gadgets | Ken R | Texas | $100 |
| Forward Email | Minnie | Texas | ||
| December 2006 | Power Button | Richard | Canada | $100 |
| Stop Auto-restart | rmcvey | Florida | ||
| November 2006 | OpenDNS | Steve R | Texas | $100 |
| Foxit reader | Amarjeet G | California | ||
| October 2006 | Open multiple start menu | Paulo T | Brazil | $100 |
| Regain HD space | Bill J | Indiana | ||
| September 2006 | Increase security | Raymond G | Canada | $100 |
| August 2006 | Internet 10 Commandments | Joesph | Michigan | $100 |
| July 2006 | Open IE faster | Allen S | Illinois | $100 |
| June 2006 | Limit System Restore Space | Doug T | North Dakota | $100 |
| Enlarge font sizes | Steve H | Florida | ||
| Big Print with Mouse | Randy M | Texas | ||
| May 2006 | Turn off XP eye candy | David B | Ireland | $100 |
| Windows + D | Paul H | United Kingdom |
Survey Winners
| Month | Survey | Winner | Location | Prize |
| January 2008 | Photo Printing Survey | Art | Oregon | $100 |
| December 2007 | Printer Survey | Michael | Wisconsin | $100 |
| November 2007 | Holiday Shopping | Mike | Iowa | $100 |
| Holiday Shopping | Nick | New York | $100 | |
| October 2007 | Drivers | Glorieux G | Belgium | $100 |
| September 2007 | You & Your PC Survey | Peter H | Australia | $100 |
| August 2007 | Spam & Phishing Survey | Alan P | South Dakota | $100 |
| July 2007 | Windows Accessory Survey | Ed V | Michigan | $100 |
| June 2007 | Online Video Survey | Steve T | UK | $100 |
| May 2007 | Obsolescence Survey | Sharon P | Ontario, Canada | $100 |
| Disk MD Survey | Arthur M | North Carolina | $100 | |
| Exterminate Survey | Judith M | New York | $100 | |
| Optimize Survey | Jo H | Florida | $100 | |
| April 2007 | Gaming | Thomas B | Mississippi | $100 |
| March 2007 | Vista Attitude | Elwin P | Malaysia | $100 |
| February 2007 | Emma K | United Kingdom | $100 | |
| January 2007 | Printer | Jerry S | Missouri | $100 |
| Optimize | Daryl R | Minnesota | ||
| December 2006 | Hard Drive & Storage | Lewis M | Texas | $100 |
| November 2006 | Password | Don O | Australia | $100 |
| October 2006 | PC Safety | John W | Texas | $100 Amazon Card |
| September 2006 | Wireless | Gerald S | Kansas | $100 Amazon Card |
| July 2006 | Digital Music | $100 Amazon Card | ||
| May 2006 | Keyboard Shotcuts | Pamela M | Wisconsin | $100 Amazon Card |
| April 2006 | Software info | Peter H | United Kingdom | Software Licenses |
| March 2006 | Erase | Robin R | $50 Best Buy Gift Card | $50 Amazon Card |
| February 2006 | Newsletter info | Larry | Texas | $50 Amazon Card |
