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Hard drives crash, USB drives disappear, and laptops get stolen. Sometimes bad things happen to good data. Backing up your files to CD’s, DVD’s, or an external hard drive doesn’t protect you against theft or acts of nature. Big business uses off-site storage to protect their data, and this article explains how you can apply this technique to personal data on the cheap using free online storage services.

This third article in a multi-part series about defragmentation explains and shows a video example of how to defragment your hard drives on Windows XP.

This is the second article in my series about file and drive fragmentation. It explains how a drive becomes fragmented and how you can tell if it requires defragmentation.

Fragmentation is  one of the primary ailments that infects a slow computer.  You might have heard the word before. Someone might have even taught you how to fix it.  But most of us don’t know what fragmentation is, how it occurs, and–unlike a virus or spyware–why we’re stuck living with fragmentation in our lives.  Without [...]

Starting this spring I will be teaching a four-hour crash course on home PC maintenace at SUN Area Career & Technology Center. Because of the length of the course and the unavailability of a good, no-nonsense text on the subject, I’ll be creating the course materials myself and making them available for free online.
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