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Q&A: Will a laptop hard drive work in a desktop PC?

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Question from Marcel:  I accidentally sat on my laptop and broke the screen and who knows what else inside (it doesn’t do anything when I turn it on).

I removed the 1TB hard drive from the damaged laptop and it appears to be ok. Well, at least it doesn’t appear to be bent or broken in any way.

Can I install this hard drive from the laptop in my desktop computer to give me an additional 1TB of storage?

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4 ways to retrieve the files from an old PC’s hard drive

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It seems that every week I receive at least a couple of frantic emails asking me if there’s any way to retrieve the files from a computer’s hard drive after the machine has gone belly-up.

Luckily, many times the answer is YES!

I have covered each of the following methods before, but I thought it might be helpful if I simply list them all in a single post.  [Read more…]

Is a picture still worth a thousand words?

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There was a time when photographs were widely considered to be the ultimate “proof” in situations where there was a dispute or disagreement of some kind.

In fact, photos carried such weight that criminals often simply decided to confess to their crimes after being confronted with photographic evidence rather than try to plead their innocence.

But the days when we could confidently take at picture at face value are now long gone thanks to the wide use of Adobe Photoshop and AI generated images. [Read more…]

How to prevent getting locked out of your own Facebook account

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I receive frantic messages on a regular basis from folks asking for help getting back into their Facebook accounts because they have somehow gotten locked out of them.

Sometimes I’m able to help them reset their password and log back in with no problems, but all too often a simple password reset doesn’t work for them.

And sadly, in situations like this Facebook’s “Account Recovery” tools can be pretty close to useless. [Read more…]

6 ways to make your Windows PC boot up faster

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One of the most irritating things about using a Windows PC is having to wait for it to boot up into a usable state after we turn it on.

To their credit, Microsoft has tweaked newer versions of Windows to reduce average boot times, but in my opinion it still takes longer for them to start up than it should.

Luckily, there are several things you can do to make your own PC boot up a lot faster than it does right now, even if your computer is brand new. Do as many or as few of them as you wish, then enjoy the fruits of your labor.  [Read more…]

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