Many people don’t bother to delete old files on their PC and so they keep accumulating, only to give you a headache afterwards in terms of storage problems. It’s always good practice to delete old ...

Deleting a file on a computer rarely means it is gone. On traditional hard drives and many solid-state drives, what disappears from view often lingers in the background, recoverable with the right ...

I built a new Windows PC to replace an aging one, both are running Windows 11. A number of files on my old archive disk did not get decrypted during the move from the old to the new machine. The name ...

Have you discovered a mysterious (and very heavy) folder called Windows.old on your PC? Although it is impossible to send it to the Recycle Bin in the traditional way, it is possible to actually ...

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Your Android phone's biggest space hogs aren't always the ones you can see. If your storage is filling up faster than it should, hidden files you've never touched might be the reason. Every app you ...

A few years back, we ran this hint, which used a Python script to organize archived iChats into subfolders based on the name of the iChat buddy. The script was necessary because, at the time, Apple ...