Welcome to Scotsmist personal computer support

The guides are based on our experience with PC's, which you may find useful. Topics include newbie, buying computer equipment, backing up important files, top tips and tricks. We have started our own beginners corner offering practical advice, a do's and don'ts page and a hardware reference guide.

The technical pages offer a more detailed writing for those wanting to know more about the personal computer. We take a look at the BIOS. The CMOS is explained, with in-depth descriptions of the configuration such as Plug & Play or Power Management and ACPI. There is a complete reference to components such as the power supply unit (PSU), the main processor or motherboard and many of the peripherals.

We have compiled a comprehensive list of useful links to manufacturers pages and other sites offering a similar technical content to ours. There is a page dedicated to sites of a Scottish theme and a favourites page. Recently we added links to component, peripheral and motherboard sites, a compilation of the best search engines around complete with a brief explanation of their service, links to useful free subscriptions and a list of online PC magazines.

Our glossary covers every technical word, phrase or jargon we know. There is an A to Z of file extensions, acronyms and chat symbols as well as domain suffixes and emoticons. This section is frequently updated as more jargon unfolds.We plan to include an option to search only this section of the site.

Our news pages offer live interesting and important updates including local UK weather reports. There are useful links to major news suppliers on the web and a dedicated rugby sports page which has links to other sites.

There are many download sites on the net, so we created a list of the best pages on the web as well as a list of the latest top ten downloads, compiled by MyZips. We have also included several applications that we find useful if you wish to download them from our old site.

Collected from far too many sources to list. The subjects range from power users, field engineers, support staff, customers and a light hearted poke at everyone's favourite software giant Micro$oft. A list of the best computer humour sites can also be found here.