New PC. Has a single 1-TB drive. Did a Computer | Manage | Disk Management | System (C:) | Shrink Volume and it shrunk it by half with the admonition that...

SpeedTest is pretty commonly used, IMHO... so maybe this isn't *too* off-topic... I TeamViewer to a PC running 7 and 64-bit IE 9. My home PC is XP Pro with...

I know this feature was broken in XP, but thought it was fixed in 7. I have a SATA sled that allows hot plugging/unplugging of drives. My expectation was...

I was an avid user of FolderSize under XP. Now I have 64-bit version installed on my 7 box and the presentation has changed from an extra column in Explorer...

Win 7 SP1, 8 gigs. If I watch my memory usage and it's not approaching full use there's nothing to be gained from adding more memory, right? Video...

New-ish Windows 7 Install. About 60 gigs in the system partition. Suddenly I notice that I only have one gig left. WTF????? I had FolderSize working for...

I tried the ipAddress utility and the UI/window is exactly what I'm looking for: a small, unobtrusive floating window on the desktop, no borders, no buttons,...

RE/ http://tinyurl.com/mfdmj6h For want of a better word, "Smudging".... Is there a way to get a screen shot without that effect? Maybe something with the...

I just did a restart and turned away to do something else. When I re-focused on the monitor, it was in the middle of a CHKDSK and saying something about...

I always set Control Panel | Windows Update | Change settings | Important Updates = "Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install...

System drive is getting full. Looks like I can pick up about a half-gig if I delete the contents of C:\Windows\winsxs\Backup. Gotchas? -- Pete Cresswell

Lost our internet connection during a spate of thunderstorms. One thing that jumped out at me during the outage was that every time I right-clicked on an...

When I try to clean up my C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Temp directory, I keep getting "Error 0x80070571: The disk structure is corrupted and unreadable". Sounds...

Yes, there was something wrong with the drive..... CHKDSK /F fixed that .... But, even with the drive performing normally, a massive delete against it (it...

Got a new SSD for my system, partitioned it into K: (System) and J: (Data). Took an image of the existing system, then restored it to K: (System) on the new...

Family member's PC is being brought to it's knees - as in frequent bouts of 100% CPU usage with just a bare system post-login....i.e. the user has not opened...

It has recently dawned on me that Chrome takes a very long time to load - as in 7-8 seconds from the time an empty window comes up. Looking at it with Process...

If I have a backup file server on my LAN - but there are no shares to it on my 24-7 PC or any other PCs, is it still exposed if/when my 24-7 PC becomes...

I am buying a new PC for the #2 daughter to replace her ancient-and-honorable Vista box (AMD Athlon LE-1620 @2.4 GHz), so the bar is not all that high. Email...

I have read a couple reviews and am still not clear on whether it would be a step up from Chrome for me. -- Pete Cresswell