If you're ready to replace your old PC and hand it down to a friend or family member, you'll need to wipe your data and reset it. Follow these instructions to make sure you do it the right way.

SSD slowdowns aren’t always age, often it’s firmware, cache, TRIM, or free space. Here’s the checklist I use to keep things running smoothly.

Putting the drive together takes about a minute. Most enclosures are tool-free; you slide the SSD into the M.2 slot, secure ...

Deleting the WinSxS folder is unsafe. Learn what WinSxS does and how to clean it safely using Disk Cleanup, Storage Sense, and DISM to free real space in Windows 10 and 11.

Members of the Windows 1.0 team at their 40-year reunion this week. L-R, kneeling/sitting: Joe Barello, Ed Mills, Tandy Trower, Mark Cliggett, Steve Ballmer (holding a Windows 1.0 screenshot) and Don ...

Traditional Hard drives, or HDD in short, are commonly found in older PCs and laptops. Hard drives are mechanical devices with magnetic platters that spin and an arm that reads or writes data. These ...

A Deep Dive Into 2025’s Breakneck Storage Upgrades and the Drives Pushing Gaming, Editing, and Data-Heavy Workflows to New Limits PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSDs dominate speed and efficiency benchmarks in 2025.

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It’s a little more expensive than a conventional SSD, but the Dual Portable SSD manages to combine good performance with an ultra-portable design, making it a great option for Time Machine backups ...

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Ever wondered what owning a computer in the 1980s was like? Outside of nostalgia, it wasn’t the best. Until 1984, unless you were in some kind of strange lab or university, nearly everything was ...