You know what it’s like. You bought a new hard drive, likely an SSD, but you can’t bring yourself to nuke the old Windows installation because either you want to keep it in case the new install goes belly up, or worry that pressing the wrong button may cause irreparable damage, leaving you without a […]
A while ago, I started getting the annoying ‘startup disk almost full’ message on my MacBook Pro. I emptied ‘Trash’ but that didn’t seem to do much. Next, I deleted the contents of my ‘Download’ folder. I also moved some files to iCloud. This freed up several gig so I thought I was good to […]
I awoke this morning to a plethora of new updates for my Windows 7 machines, around 22 on one machine and 27 on the other. Fellow Windows 7 users should have also received the same slew of updates during the course of the past couple of days. The good news is that one of the […]
When you upgrade from a previous operating system to Windows 8 you will end up with a very large folder in the root of your main (C) drive called “Windows.old”: This folder contains program and operating system data carried over from the old installation and is created as a safety net intended to keep users from losing important data. I […]