As a passerby looking for a 'forum home', I have looked this forum over and feel it would be more beneficial to all if certain changes were made. This is not intended to upset anyone but have seen you on other forums asking members there to come here, and here are my suggestions:
At present there are too many categories fragmented, combine all of the following into a " Computer Help Forum":

Tech News and Reviews
General Board
Certification/Training  
Hardware
Hot Deals
Networking  
Security & Hacking  
Software - Applications
Windows.

Since all of the above are basic computer topics and deal with everyday computer problems, there is no reason to seperate them. When most visitors go to a computer help forum, they like to scan all the postings related to computer topics while there. More than one posting will probally interest them and there is no need to jump all over several fragmented forums to get info, post a question or look for answers. I ,myself , do not have the time to do all that.
This is just my observations and suggestions , whether or not the Administrators/Moderators/Whatever etc take them serious or not.
Others should post their opinions.
Thanks for listening,
passerby