If you have just bought a USB disk drive or added a second internal disk to your desktop PC you might wonder whether to partition it or not. Should you? Are there advantages? Let’s take […]
Have you lost files that were in the Dropbox folder on your disk? Have you accidentally deleted files or overwritten them? These quick tips show how to recover the original files on Dropbox and on […]
The BIOS or Basic Input Output System is basically a type of program that controls the actions of a computer. It’s very important because all the data flow is controlled by the BIOS. Hence, an […]
This is a tale of an external hard drive that would not appear in Explorer and could not be seen or used. It was working fine, then one day it wasn’t there. What happened? Here […]
If you have a backup of the PC’s disk drive, how do you restore it if your PC will not start? Here is a guide to creating recovery media, booting the computer from it and […]
Like every physical entity, the PCs and Laptops are age bound. Even when not mentioned on their product tag, they do have an expiry date when we talk about their functioning.
Windows is sometimes working very hard behind the scenes performing all manner of tasks. One of these is creating a search index. In some cases it can slow down the PC. Here’s the fix you […]
Windows has a built in search engine that can be used to find documents, apps, settings and other files on the disk drive. It is actually quite good at finding Windows settings and apps, but […]
How do you protect the files on the computer’s disk drive so that only you can access them? One way is to encrypt them on a file by file basis and there are several utilities […]
There is no doubt that Windows Explorer is a useful tool and it enables you to browse the disks, folders and files on a Windows PC. You can view thumbnails of images, run programs, […]
Is the disk drive in your PC perfectly organised? Do you know where every file is and is there a folder for each type of file? If you are like most people your disk […]
I have looked at a lot of privacy and clean-up tools for Windows computers and some of them are pretty good. However, they are all very similar and they usually offer the same features. […]
As the computer is used, temporary disk files are created, log files are written to, thumbnail caches grow, Windows updates are added and so on. None of these is essential and it just amounts […]
Would an extra disk drive be useful for storing photos, videos, music and documents? How about installing an extra operating system, such as a different version of Windows or even Linux? This is possible using […]
Disk drives lag behind other components in the PC in terms of performance and a computer would run a lot faster if it wasn’t for the slow disk drive. If only there was some way […]
Some people seem to be unsure as to whether super fast SSDs - Solid State Disk drives - need to be defragmented. They know know disks become fragmented over time and that this slows them […]
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