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Comment by Brent on Where Does Your Digital Footprint Lead? (June 1, 2026 07:19 PM)
Malwarebytes just blocked Incogni website. They said don't go there. Any ideas. EDITOR'S NOTE: That's either a false positive, or an anti-compet...
Comment by bb on Is Your Computer Slow? Find Out Why (May 30, 2026 01:19 AM)
First thing I do is open task manager and look at the "Performance" tab. If the disk (generally the C: drive) is pegged at or near 100% and the CPU i...
Comment by Steve on 17 Signs Your PC May Be Obsolete (May 29, 2026 11:52 PM)
“Obsolete” is very dependent on the OS. I agree with the folks here that mentioned Linux. I have four old computers that are too “old and slow...
Comment by gene on Is Your Computer Slow? Find Out Why (May 29, 2026 08:46 PM)
Novabench wouldn't download in any browser. Just hangs permanently. So that's not really useful. ...
Comment by bb on Hard Drive Partitions: Old-School or Useful Tool? (May 22, 2026 04:15 PM)
SSDs eliminate the problem of "mimimizes the movement of drive head" since there is not drive head. But SSDs are more expensive than HDDS for the dat...
Comment by Clay on Hard Drive Partitions: Old-School or Useful Tool? (May 22, 2026 05:48 AM)
The man’s not wrong folks, even my teacher back in 2004 said the same thing. ...
Comment by Wolf on Hard Drive Partitions: Old-School or Useful Tool? (May 21, 2026 11:40 PM)
This is an interesting article, and I agree with much of what is mentioned. I have installed 2 different types of Linux on a 2nd hard drive, which I i...
Comment by Leo on Hard Drive Partitions: Old-School or Useful Tool? (May 21, 2026 10:26 PM)
I agree with most of Bob's points. I understand his one-partition strategy, but what if an aggressive Windows update (or a mistaken user choice) wipes...
Comment by Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. (Ernie) on Hard Drive Partitions: Old-School or Useful Tool? (May 21, 2026 07:58 PM)
I've been dealing with all the partition size limits as well as all the other limitations of the Microsoft operating systems going back to the days of...
Comment by Mike PRemo on Hard Drive Partitions: Old-School or Useful Tool? (May 21, 2026 07:02 PM)
I'm total old school on this. Since leaving the employment which required me to maintain a database. I have not kept up with Windows. I can manage my ...
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