When you delete a file or folder from Windows, only the link to the data is destroyed. There is a chance that the actual data is lying somewhere on the disk, so here are some easy ways to permanently delete files and folders from your computer. Continue reading
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How To Permanently Delete Files And Folders In Windows
Wednesday, April 18th, 2012The Case of the Gray Defrag
Friday, April 13th, 2012If your defrag is gray and it’s ruining your day, you can fix it! Here’s a way! Continue reading
Remove Previous Windows Installation Files To Recover Disk Space
Thursday, April 5th, 2012You can permanently remove the Windows.old folder and recover valuable disk space in your operating system partition. Continue reading
The Problem with RAM…
Friday, March 30th, 2012Is there a way to store programs on your RAM chips? No, but if you’d like a fast alternative to your hard drive, you might consider a solid state drive. Continue reading
Fixing an 8GB USB Flash Drive
Monday, March 26th, 2012Find out how to fix USB memory drives that no longer work after your computer is shut down unexpectedly or the device is removed improperly. Continue reading
Copying Photos from Your iPhone to Your Dropbox App
Sunday, March 11th, 2012The convenience of Dropbox gets even more exciting! Move photos from your iOS device directly to your Dropbox app in just seconds! Continue reading
Opening Display Write Files
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012Have some old Display Writer files sitting around that you’d like to open? Here are some tools to do that if you don’t want to have to start trolling Ebay for a Display Writer console. Continue reading
Renaming Multiple Files with Total Commander
Monday, February 27th, 2012Do you have multiple files or folders to rename, but don’t want to go through them manually one by one? Here’s an easy way to achieve this daunting task with the Multi-Rename tool that comes with Total Commander. Continue reading
What’s Up With The $$ Files?
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012What about all those files with the $$ in front of them? Can I delete ALL of those? Will it help my computer to delete them? Continue reading
How to Install Windows 7 or Windows 8 from a USB Drive
Thursday, February 9th, 2012To create a bootable USB thumb drive, you will need a thumb drive that has at least 4 GB of space and you will need the contents of your Windows ISO file. Here’s a guide to follow. Continue reading
How to Format Your PC
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012This article is going to provide how to format your PC based on whether you are using Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 using their respective installation CD’s. Continue reading
Virtual Clone Drive
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012At times, we might need to extract ISO files to view their contents, or to extract specific files from them. This can be done using Virtual Clone Drive. Continue reading
Associate Applications with the File Type
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012To open files, Windows associates them with a specific program. Typically, this is automatically done, but sometimes Windows gets the association wrong, such as opening PDF files in Notepad. Here’s the fix. Continue reading
Is it Safe to Delete Temp Files?
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012This article addresses the issue of the safety of deleting temporary files. Take a look and see for yourself if it’s safe to delete them! Continue reading
Remove Easy Reader from Your Computer
Friday, January 6th, 2012Learn how to completely uninstall the EasyReader software from your computer in a few easy-to-follow steps! Continue reading
What is the Temp Directory and Why Should You Clean It?
Wednesday, January 4th, 2012Temporary files can slow down your computer. It is important that you make sure to delete them so they do not pose a problem to your computer’s performance. Continue reading
Watch That Video Later
Friday, December 30th, 2011A reader question that how to save a video from e-mail and transfer it to DVD. Give it a look! Continue reading
How to Make Sub Folders
Thursday, December 8th, 2011This article will help you create subfolders on your computer so you can better organize your documents. Continue reading
How to Defragment the Pagefile in Windows 7
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011Today, we are going to see how to defragment the pagefile in Windows 7. A fragmented pagefile can slow down your computer and reduce performance. Continue reading
Removing Norton
Friday, November 18th, 2011Are you having trouble removing Norton from your computer? Here’s a tip that may help! Continue reading
How to Choose the Default Program for a File
Friday, November 11th, 2011This article teaches the reader how to choose a default program for a file. Changing the default program is a great way to manage your various file types. Continue reading
Relocate Your Entire Documents Folder to Dropbox
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011Learn how to transform replace your Documents folder with your Dropbox. After this tweak, your My Documents folder will be available anywhere in the world! Continue reading
Open File Location in Process Explorer
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011A file location can be easily opened in the Vista and Windows 7 Task Manager, but this feature wasn’t built-in to XP. However, the handy task manager utility, Process Explorer, solves that problem for XP users. Continue reading
