Essential Guides

Here you'll find our member-submitted guides.

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This is Neowin's 'A' Forum. If you came here looking for help when no-one else could help you, chances are you need the 'A' Forum *cue music* 'A Collection of Essential Guides' are member and staff submitted articles or guides that cover most areas and have been deemed both accurate and helpful to our community.

If you are willing to contribute a guide, Neowin requests that you post the entire guide in the first post of the thread (or at least as much as possible). Threads that post little more than a brief description and a link to an external guide will be closed. All posts started here must contain guides only, all other topics will be deleted, misuse of this forum will result in account moderation.

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