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Drive Fragmentation In the old days one of the necessary chores was to defragment (Defrag) your Hard Disk Drives (HDD) on a regular basis. This helped them to run at peak efficiency, reduced “head thrashing”, and prolonged the life of the drive, not to mention […]
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In the above scene from Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999) where Bill Gates tells IBM executives that he believes he has what they need, a disk operating system that even he doesn’t yet possess (according to the film**), we witness a moment where one man’s
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Compact Cassette I’ve been asked a few times to copy compact cassettes to a music CD. How many people remember those or know what they are? “The Compact Cassette or Musicassette (MC), also commonly called cassette tape, audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is
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A Tale of Two Clouds A while ago I wrote This is Why Microsoft OneDrive Sucks and ranted about placeholders, Scrooge-like storage woes and weird file naming. Well, I’m back and I’m both on the warpath and singing its praises, so how weird is that? This time
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Command Prompt is Missing The recent Windows 10 Creators Update has struck again. This time, it is in the form of a missing Command Prompt entry in the WinX Menu (Windows Key + X). It has been replaced by the Power Shell and that is
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Storage Control Every week I go through a backup sequence that involves, obviously, backing up my computer. What may not be so obvious is that I also make a point of eliminating a lot of dormant cruft that builds up over time. Namely, temporary files
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Control Panel is AWOL In the latest iteration of Windows 10, the Creators Update, the WinX menu is different. Conspicuous by its absence is the Control Panel. Microsoft is slowly but surely replacing the time-honored Control Panel with the Settings App. As time passes, and
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Windows Audio Error This problem is my own on my Acer Desktop with Windows 7 64-bit. I wrote once before that when I start up my computer there is always a red mark on my speaker icon. I have to click on it to open
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Thank You Windows 8 Over the years I’ve played with all sorts of Desktop customisation software, not least following the launch of Windows 8 when we were all left scratching our heads and wondering what had happened to our beloved Start Menu. That particular Windows
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The Blue Menace It has been established by “experts” in the field that late-night blue light is detrimental to human sleep patterns. This may be true, but I am not here to argue the point. For a long time now, I have taken them at
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No doubt you will be aware that the next major Windows 10 update, dubbed “Creators Update” is due to start rolling out from April 11th. I have wondered about the significance of the name “Creators Update” and, following a a little research, discovered that Microsoft
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Creators Update For starters, I’d like to point out that this week’s Quick Tips is going to be “quick”, and it is also going to be a tip, but there won’t be any step-by-step instructions. It is more of merely being a good idea– a
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What Is ISO In today’s Quick Tips we’ll be talking about ISO files. Specifically, Microsoft’s Windows and Office ISO files. “And the tip?”, you ask. Well, I am going to show you how to get many ISO files, all legal mind you, containing different versions
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Keyloggers “Keystroke logging, often referred to as keylogging or keyboard capturing, is the action of recording (logging) the keys struck on a keyboard, typically covertly, so that the person using the keyboard is unaware that their actions are being monitored. Keylogging can also be used
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