5. Geek to Live: How to Format Your Hard Drive and Install Windows XP from Scratch
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Sometimes it’s best to just start all over again from a blank slate. Lifehacker founder Gina Trapani wrote this XP guide back in 2006, and judging from its popularity, it’s classic how-to guides like this one that help geeks and non-geeks alike the most. Although we’re long past Windows XP, the basic steps are actually still pretty similar. But if you want something a bit more up-to-date, check out this guide to formatting your hard drive and this one for learning how to do a clean install of Windows (while keeping your files, settings, and tweaks intact).
There’s nothing like a fresh install of Windows to clear your mind, but it comes at a cost:…
4. The Always Up-to-Date Guide to Building a Hackintosh
Ah, the hackintosh. For some, just mention of the word sparks joy. Over the years, we’ve posted countless guides to installing Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware, and most of them made it into our top posts of all time. Of course, almost all of them are out of date now, so bookmark this one for the most relevant, continuously updated instructions. Building a hackintosh is still as great a project as it ever was.
3. Five Best DVD Ripping Tools
Lifehacker readers’ five favorite DVD ripping utilities from 2012 are still awesome at what they do: Quickly and easily ripping DVDs and Blu-ray discs to files so you can watch them anywhere. You’ll find options for all OSes here, several of them free.
2. How to Supercharge Your Router with DD-WRT
This is the updated version of our second most popular post of all time: Turn Your $60 Router into a $600 Router. DD-WRT makes it possible to do much more with your router than you can with your router’s default firmware, like improve your wireless signal, add advanced features, and more. (DD-WRT also tends to be more secure, as was the case with the WPS router vulnerability easily cracked with Reaver.)
1. How to Crack a Wi-Fi Password
Gina’s How to Crack a Wi-Fi Network’s WEP Password with BackTrack guide is the site’s top post of all time. But by now, you probably know you shouldn’t be using WEP for your Wi-Fi network, and instead should be using the much more secure WPA2 (with AES encryption, if possible). WPA is still crackable, though, so it’s an important subject to learn about. Check out both our guides on WEP and WPA password cracking for info on how to protect yourself.
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