Backing up your hard drive and freeing up disk space are common reasons to move or copy files and programs. Copying a directory or all of the files associated with a program is easy to do in Windows 8 ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Transferring files from one PC to another used to be a real hassle, and often required moving floppy disks back and forth, using arcane cable ...

Upgrading to a new SSD can significantly enhance your computer’s performance, whether upgrading to a larger SSD drive, a faster NVMe or M.2 SSD, or replacing an old SSD. For this reason, many users ...

I had an email exchange with a reader recently about making backups of a computer’s hard drive and then restoring those backup files when moving to a new computer. The reader said he took the hard ...

Microsoft Excel's implementation of Visual Basic for Applications, or VBA, helps you record or write macros that turn sequences of tasks and commands into pieces of one-click automation. Macros can ...

When upgrading from an old PC to a new PC, it’s essential to bring all the applications and files. If you aren’t upgrading the OS and setting up a new Windows computer, then this post will offer a ...

Secure Copy is a UNIX standard used to transfer files from one computer to another. He's how to use the function in macOS, all via the Terminal window. Before personal computers, there were mainframe ...

Windows automatically creates a profile for each WiFi you connect to access the internet in order to make it easy to connect to them some other time on your computer. However, what happens if you ...

A: As mobile and cloud computing has grown in popularity and functionality in recent years, the ability to share information like this between computers has become very easy to do. That wasn't always ...

Have a computer with multiple monitors? Then all you have to do to move content from one screen to another is move your mouse past the edge of one display and onto the next or copy and paste an item ...

Windows creates a separate profile for each Wi-Fi network you’ve successfully logged into. Your Wi-Fi profile saves the network password so that if your Windows PC ...

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