storage

Get more disk space with Windows 10 Storage sense disk cleaner

Is your Windows PC running at peak efficiency? It won’t be if the disk is nearly full. Enable Storage sense, a new feature that automatically recovers lost disk space. Here’s how it [...]

2017/06/25 // 0 Comments

Microsoft slashes OneDrive storage with new rules

Microsoft has been providing unlimited cloud storage to Office 365 subscribers, but now the company has backtracked on the deal and will end this offer early in [...]

2015/11/03 // 0 Comments

Use TeraCopy to copy files faster than Explorer

If you regularly copy files between the computer and an external USB disk drive, a networked drive like NAS, or another PC on the network, you may find that it slow and occasionally [...]

2014/12/10 // 2 Comments

Are you using the right Disk Clean-up tool in Windows 8?

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 to disk clutter. Too much can affect the performance [...]

2014/12/06 // 0 Comments

Sync computers and exchange files with BitTorrent Sync

Transferring files between computers is something we all have to do from time to time and there are several situations where this can be necessary. You might want to transfer files from one computer to another, such as work to home, desktop to [...]

2014/10/16 // 0 Comments

Rescue documents with OneDrive previous versions

Do you use Microsoft OneDrive to create and store documents like Word files? Whether you use Word on your computer and save files to the OneDrive folder on the PC’s disk drive, or use the free web apps at onedrive.com to create files online, [...]

2014/10/02 // 0 Comments

Add iCloud Drive to Windows for online storage

Every few years Apple completely changes its internet services and it never seems to get it right. It has morphed over the years from iTools to .Mac to MobileMe to iCloud, and now it has changed again. So why am I writing about Apple stuff on this [...]

2014/09/18 // 1 Comment

Fix Microsoft OneDrive sync problems

If you have a Microsoft ID, and there can be few people that don’t (Outlook.com, Xbox Live etc.), you have access to OneDrive online storage. You get 15GB free from Microsoft in which to store your files. It is even baked into Windows 8.1 and you [...]

2014/09/11 // 6 Comments

Stop sharing the Public folder in Microsoft OneDrive

OneDrive is Microsoft’s online storage, what was for a long time called SkyDrive. You can store up to 15GB of files there for free and it is a great facility. Sharing files is encouraged and there is a ready-made Public folder designed for just [...]

2014/08/02 // 1 Comment

Solve Dropbox sync problems

Dropbox is an excellent utility and one of the useful things it does is back up files on your computer and sync them with your other computers. Sometimes though, it doesn’t sync and different computers can have different files. What is going on [...]

2014/07/14 // 0 Comments

Google Drive prices slashed

Google has always provided a generous amount of free online storage, but these days it is easy to exceed your allowance and the price of additional storage space used to be expensive. However, Google has slashed its prices and it is now cheaper than [...]

2014/03/13 // 0 Comments