- Clearing out the data on a Windows Computer
- Formatting a second disk drive with Windows
- Microsoft Telephone SCAM
- Easy Backup for your Windows computer
- Customizing the Android icon tray
- Not comfortable with Windows 8.x?
Clearing out the Data on your Windows computer
See the following article:
https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/reset-windows-10-pc
Synopsis:
- Navigate to Settings
- Choose “Update & security”
- Click “Recovery” in the left pane
- Click “Get started” under “Reset this PC”
- Choose “Remove everything”
- Choose “Remove files and clean the drive” if you’re giving away the computer, or sending it to e-waste. This will take a while, but it will be very difficult to recover any of your information
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Formatting a second disk drive with Windows
You can format a disk drive to wipe out all the data on it.
Use the following steps to format a drive:
- Type Control Panel in the search box.
- Click Control Panel.
- Click System and Security
- Under Administrative Tools, click “Create and format hard disk partitions”
- In the lower half of the screenRight click on the drive or partition to format and click on Format.
- Select the file system and set the cluster size (normally NTFS/default)
- Click OK to format the drive.
Note:Â Formatting a drive erases all data on the drive. Backup any important information before attempting to format a drive.
Note: Files can be recovered after a format by a determined individual. It is much more difficult to zero the drive so it can’t be recovered – you basically have to run an elevated command prompt, and use one of the following commands:
format : /fs:NTFS /p:2
or run “diskpart”. At it’s prompt (DISKPART>), type “list disk”. It will show you a list of disks. Determine which disk is the one you want to zero. Type “select disk 1” (or 2 or 3, whichever disk is the one you want to zero). Now type “clean all”. This will take a long time, and does not give a progress bar, so allocate a whole day to this task for larger disks.
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Microsoft Telephone SCAM
More and more folks, including me, are experiencing the telephoneÂscamÂwhere the caller says he/she is from Microsoft and is calling about your serious computer problems.
Microsoft does not callÂpeople to help with their computer problems. Just hang up. Do not talk to and certainly do not provide any information to the caller. You probably do not have any problems, but if you do the caller does not know about them.
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Easy Backup for your Windows Computer.
Follow these quick and easy steps to back up your important documents, photos, videos, music, etc. from your Windows PC. Easy BU
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You know that little tray of icons at the bottom of your Android or iOS home screen?
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Not comfortable with Windows 8.x?
Here is the first thing you should do to ease the pain for a much better transition. Make Windows 8.x go right to the Desktop just like Windows 7. Boot Win 8.1 to Desktop