You Need to Do More Than Delete Files on an External Drive to Make Them Permanently Disappear

There’s a trick to thoroughly wiping all your data before you junk your old external solid state drive—or even computer.

The Ghosts of Your Files Haunt Old, Erased Hard Drives. Here’s How to Exorcise Them.

Before you junk your old computer or external solid state drive, here’s how to thoroughly wipe all your data, because it’s ...
PC World

Transfer files from PC to PC: 5 professional ways

When you buy a new computer, you need to transfer important existing files from your old computer to the new device. At this point, you probably Googled something along the lines of, “How do I ...
AZ Central

'If it ain't broke, don't fix it': Understanding a virus scan and using caution to delete files

QUESTION: When I do a full virus scan on my PC, the program says I have 683,000 files. How do I find and get rid of the unnecessary files? ANSWER: Depending upon your setup, there are a few things you ...
Ars Technica

Computer Management, File and Print Sharing and NetBIOS

I found out, after hitting the MS knowledgebase, that Computer Management of a remote computer will not work if that remote computer does not have File and Print Sharing for Microsoft Networks enabled ...
Computerworld

8 easy ways to transfer files between Windows and your phone

Whether you use Android or iOS, you have lots of options to beam data to and from your PC without much effort. We live in a multi-device world. At a minimum, you almost certainly have both a computer ...