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Defragment your hard drive on Windows

April 9, 2015 By Richie Leave a Comment

How to defragment your hard drive on Windows

Is your computer running slow? Perhaps you are getting error messages or programs are running at snail's pace? Well Defragmenting your hard drive can breath new life into a heavily used or neglected computer. It's pretty easy and generally doesn't take that long either. In this series of guides I'll show you how to fully Defragment your hard drive(s) on your Windows machine (XP, VISTA, 7 and 8/8.1) and it's also the easiest way to do this as there are several different ways to get to Windows … [Read more...]

Filed Under: External Hard Drives, Hard Drives & SSD's, Hardware, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1, Windows Vista, Windows XP Tagged With: Defrag, Disk Defragmenter, Error Message, Hard Drive, Microsoft Windows, slow computer, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Vista, Windows XP

Kilobytes, Megabytes, Gigabytes & Terabytes explained

June 3, 2014 By Richie 4 Comments

Kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes explained

Today I would like to demystify the kilobyte issue and explain why there are sometimes large differences between an advertised devices' capacity, and the capacity that same device displays in Windows and other operating systems. I will also explain the difference between kilobyte, kilobit and kibibyte. If you just want to convert a kilobyte to another value (megabyte, megabit, gigabyte, gigabit etc) then use the Byte Converter further below, but if you want to learn about bits and bytes and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: External Hard Drives, Hard Drives & SSD's, Hardware, Miscellaneous, Networking, RAM Memory, USB Flash Drives Tagged With: B, Bit, Byte, GB, Gigabyte, hard drive capacity, hard drive size, HDD, kB, Kilobyte, MB, Megabyte, memory, memory size, PB, RAM, RAM size, TB, Terabyte, ZB

Manually backup files, folders & personal data in Windows

April 23, 2014 By Richie 10 Comments

Manual backup of your files, folders & data in Windows guide

Today I will show you how to optimally backup all your personal files, folders and data in a way that is easily read and used in any operating system, not just Windows. As I have mentioned in earlier guides, Windows Backup & Restore is great if you are sticking with a Windows operating system, but messy and complicated if you want to use that backup in MAC or Linux (its inside a container file) and System Repair Discs are only good for your Windows system, not your personal data. It is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: External Hard Drives, Hardware, Linux, MAC OS X, Miscellaneous, Other OS, Software, System Tools, USB Flash Drives, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1, Windows Vista, Windows XP Tagged With: backup, Backup & Restore, backup files, backup photos, data backup, external hard drive, manual backup, personal data, USB drive, Windows backup

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