Over time, unfinished downloads, remnants of earlier installations, and other junk files accumulate, consuming your disk space. While removing these unwanted materials can be cleaned up using Disk ...

We have many files and folders on our PC. Some people delete unnecessary files and folders regularly, and others when the disk space is low. Whenever it may be, we see some files and folders that are ...

To make sure a deleted file can't be recovered, you'll need to use a third-party shredding tool. Here's a look at three such free programs: Eraser, File Shredder, and Freeraser. We all know that ...

I encountered a quirky problem the other day when I was trying to clean up one of my hard drives before copying its contents to another drive: I couldn’t delete a folder. Technically, I was trying to ...

Thinking a deleted file is truly gone is wishful thinking — but Windows’ sDelete tool can wipe it permanently and make it impossible to recover.

After running 64-bit Vista for a week or so, and realizing I had no reason to be running it, I did an in-place installation of 32-bit Vista. It moved the Program Files, Windows, and Users folders to ...

Dropbox is one of the best cloud storage services you can use and provides a quick and easy way to access files across multiple devices. Unless you subscribe to a premium plan, the 2GB of free storage ...

What are Shadow Volume Copies? Since Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 20013, Microsoft has bundled a technology into their operating systems called Volume Shadow Copy Service or VSS. This ...