Q: I'm trying to keep my laptop clean and fast, and I notice that the Downloads folder has a lot of high MB files. I've deleted the easy ones, like the puzzles from the Daily News that I print in the ...

Whether you have a cutting-edge blazing fast solid-state drive or an ancient magnetic hard disk drive, you are probably filling them with a ton of files you no longer need. Storage bloat involves more ...

How do you destroy all information on a hard drive before giving your old computer to someone? -- C.P., Tulsa. Don Singleton, president of the Tulsa Computer Society, said when the group's ...

If you're getting low in the amount of space you have on your hard drive, Windows has a tool that can help you.

Click the image above to listen to the audio. Sooner or later, you’ll want to sell, donate or recycle the digital devices that keep you connected. Before you do that with any device that has onboard ...

GREENSBORO, NC -- The FREE 2WTK Ecycling Event is Wednesday, November 12th from 4-7pm at the Piedmont Triad Farmer's Market. During the 2013 event 27,000 lbs of computers were recycled! Synergy will ...

The Oregonian – Even if you’ve deleted a file, a clever user can in many cases restore it from your hard drive – a fact that is becoming problematic as charitable donations of old computers and fears ...

It’s no secret that computers (like their users) slow down with age. Disks fill up with the detritus of use, from old file fragments to the echoes of programs that once lived but are now remembered ...