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Computers are prone to making all sorts of unusual noises – whirrs, beeps and musical tones – but one sound you never want to hear is the sound of your hard drive clicking.  Often called the “click of death”, the sound of a clicking hard drive is usually caused by one of the drive heads … Read more

A RAID is a storage technology that allows you to store large amounts of data with built-in security against data loss.  It does this by spreading the workload across multiple disk drives, so that if one fails, another can pick up the task.  Like most external storage solutions, RAIDs are available at multiple levels of … Read more

Modern laptops are miracles of engineering: they are able to host files, run programs, enable us to play games, stream videos and hundreds of other things as well.  Unfortunately, the more functions a piece of machinery has, the more things there are that can go wrong.  A catastrophic laptop failure is fairly rare, but it … Read more

Apple computers are famous for being reliable, sturdy, and resistant to viruses, which makes it all the more frustrating when files go missing.  Sometimes corrupt programs or damaged hardware are the cause, but just as often lost files are the result of human error, like when spring-cleaning your Documents folder snags a few important files … Read more

Having an external hard drive is practically essential in today’s data-driven world.  Keeping all your files on a single computer is inconvenient, unwieldy and risks losing everything if your computer fails, so keeping your files backed up on an external hard drive adds an extra level of security to your data, ensuring that if one … Read more

It’s very easy to become reliant on a USB flash drives.  They’re small, they’re portable, and they’re relatively inexpensive; plus, flash drives are equally compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux, so there’s no need for complicated partitioning when taking your files from place to place. The downside to relying on a flash drive to store … Read more

Windows XP was Microsoft’s most popular operating system ever. It’s been 12 years since its original launch and it still serves almost 38% of the world’s computers, which is more than a third. Many people, especially businesses, don’t want to upset the long and uninterrupted use of Windows XP. Unfortunately, support for Windows XP ends … Read more

Any person, product, or program that has worked long and hard deserves retirement. Although there is widespread discontent and disagreement, Windows XP after having a good 12 year run is being retired, along with its long time partner Office 2003. There are plenty of New Jersey computer users that still use XP, who need to … Read more

For those of you who don’t know, the support for Windows XP will be ending on April 8th. This quickly approaching deadline will have a worldwide effect on computing. 38% of the world’s computers are still running Windows XP, and probably will until the end. If they do not upgrade, there might be dire consequences … Read more

Windows XP used to be everyone’s favorite operating system, and for good reason too. Almost 38% of people still use it. That is astonishing. Over one-third of the worlds computers still run on the quite capable XP. New Jersey people have been quite content not to upgrade to the debacle called Windows Vista or to … Read more