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It feels like Microsoft is ramping up its major system updates for Windows, with one now coming every six months or so. But the problem, apart from potentially screwing up a bunch of utilities, is that Windows updates always leave a lot of temporary files and other space-stealing junk on…
At this time of the year, many of us are scoring new laptops for the work or school year. And while SSDs have made our computers faster than ever before they are typically of lower capacity than their HDD compatriots. Spinning drives are a great solution for backups, external media…
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Solid State Drives (SSD) work a little differently than hard drives, and no amount of drilling holes, degaussing, or zeroing out will actually properly secure the SSD. If you need to get rid of an SSD, you have a couple of options: Encrypt or shred. Here’s what you need to…
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