As with every electronic device, hard drives tend to fail due to their age or wear and tear, losing your data forever. It would be to your advantage to know how long your hard drive(s) will last, so you can migrate your data to another drive, replace them in time, and save your data. This is why modern hard drives have a feature named S.M.A.R.T, or SMART, which is an acronym for “Self-Monitoring-Analysis and Reporting Technology....
If you need more space, you can either delete the shadow copies or disable the service to make more space available to you in the partition. Let’s discuss when and how to enable or disable system protection (Volume Shadow Copy). What is Shadow Copy? As the name implies, Shadow Copy is a backup copy of the original file or folder which is copied even when the file is in use....
The ability to group applications under a single folder makes it more organized and convenient to use. This way, you can add more and more apps to the Start menu with less clutter. Not only that, but you can also name the folders anything you want to so it is easier for you to navigate between them, and you can go exactly to the application you need to launch, instead of searching for it....
Let us brief you on what ports are and why they can be dangerous. What are network ports? Network ports are used by Windows services and applications to send and receive data over the network. If you wonder if this is what the IP address is used for, then you are absolutely correct. However, a unique IP address defines the path to a specific device, whereas a port defines what application or service on that particular device to send that information to....
In this article, we will discuss some ways to get rid of this no audio output device is installed issue. Install the Microsoft fix from Windows Update If you are using Windows 10 Version 1809 and have disabled Windows Update, you should know that there was a bug in this specific version of Windows. Microsoft released a fix for this which can be installed using Windows Update. But if you prefer not to use Windows Update, you can download and install the specific fix from below link: Download KB4468550 [37 KB] This update is specifically to fix the issue with Intel sound card drivers....
Although your daily routine and tasks may not be greatly affected by this problem, it is still wise to resolve the issue so that you can enjoy the recently-released operating system to its fullest, especially if you have purchased a new device just for the sake of Windows 11. This article lists down several reasons as well as its solutions to mitigate the Command Prompt flashing issue in Windows 11....
Windows 11 KN Edition is designed for Korea to comply with Korean laws. It also comes without multimedia functionality. In addition, Windows Messenger is also removed from Windows. However, since Microsoft has already discontinued Windows Messenger, the KN edition is essentially the same as the N edition of Windows 11. The Media Feature Pack can be downloaded as an optional extra for Windows 11 N and KN, so you can still play multimedia files....
This task is already being accomplished by the graphic designers using third-party tools, such as Adobe Photoshop. Today, we will show you how this objective can also be achieved using the Windows-native applications: Paint and Paint 3D. Paint 3D was originally being offered as a preinstalled application in Windows 10. However, this decision was reversed and now a clean install of Windows 10/11 no longer includes it. You can still install Paint 3D from Microsoft Store....
This special folder is often ignored but it is important to keep it as clean and optimized as possible to keep your system startup optimized and fast. In this article, we will discuss accessing the Windows 10 Startup Folder and its different aspects. What is the Startup Folder in Windows? The startup folder was introduced in Windows 95. Some programs run automatically when the Windows is started and those programs are called startup programs....
Microsoft has recently announced that some of the Windows components designed to keep your systems safe affect their performance. However, you can disable these Windows features to optimize the computer for gaming purposes, but of course, this will leave your system vulnerable to outside threats and attacks. This article lists several things you can do to increase your system’s performance to get the best gaming experience on a Windows 11 computer....
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With the additional functionality that is provided by the NTFS permissions, its configuration is very complex that can lead to administration headaches. While managing your permissions on the top-level directories sometimes goes inaccurate, and this inaccuracy will force the sub-directories to change, which causes issues. So, to avoid this kind of situation, it is always recommended to backup folder permissions before making any changes to the NTFS or sharing settings....
Amidst the wave of inflation that has hammered the earnings of technology firms such as NVIDIA, AMD and Intel, SpaceX has also increased the rates of its launch services. The company, which still offers the lowest rates in the industry to a myriad of destinations such as low Earth Orbit (LEO) is now charging 20% more for its rideshare programs, but at the same time, it has reduced the minimum prices offered to its rideshare customers....
Instagram Will Soon Allow You to Filter Content with Great Ease Once this feature does roll out, Instagram users will have an option to make sure that their Explore page is only showing the media they want to see and not something else. At the moment, our Explore page is a culmination of the type of posts that we engage with most commonly. However, in between that, you end up seeing some posts that have absolutely nothing in common with what you actually look at....
Intel’s Core i9-13900K Raptor Lake Is 5% Faster Than Core i9-12900K Alder Lake on Average In Leaked Gaming Benchmarks The Intel Core i9-13900K Raptor Lake CPU tested in the leaked benchmarks is a QS sample that features 24 cores and 32 threads in an 8 P-Core and 16 E-Core configuration. The CPU carries a total of 36 MB of L3 cache and 32 MB of L2 cache for a combined 68 MB of ‘Smart Cache....
Intel ARC line runs out of GPUs and misses the date set for updated driver support for the line The company’s initial plans were to offer an updated driver by the last part of April, including the capability to deactivate optimizations focused on benchmarking. Including this update with the option to activate or deactivate the optimization would allow users to achieve more validity in their UL 3D mark benchmark test scores....
Intel Arc Control Brings Forth A Modern Overlay Delivering Auto Driver Updates, Performance Tuning, Creator Studio Features & No Login Required Intel doesn’t want its Arc lineup to be just about the products but they also want to deliver the best experience within a vast gaming and creator community. As such, Intel is launching Arc Control, a full-on software suite based around the Arc graphics family. The Arc Control has a lot to offer and some features include:...
Intel finalizes Meteor Lake graphics support for Linux 5.20, including DRM-Next modifications The company reported earlier this month that it is working on patches for the Meteor Lake graphics driver inside the unreleased Linux 5.20 kernel. Readers will remember that Meteor Lake is the successor to Raptor Lake, which will be released later this year. The initial Meteor Lake patches for the i915 kernel graphics driver have been placed in the queue for Linux 5....
The Intel Ponte Vecchio GPU is a major product which has 128 Xe Cores, 128 RT cores, up to 64 MB of L1 Cache and up to 408 MB of L2 cache. HBM2e has also been used and the IO will connect up to 8 discrete dies. PCIe Gen 5 is being used along with Xe Link to deliver a tremendous amount of processing power. It is created using a mix of Intel 7, TSMC N5 and TSMC N7 packaged through EMIB and Foveros approaches....
Intel’s Upcoming 24 Core Raptor Lake Core i9-13900K Desktop CPU & Arc A770 Desktop Graphics Card Spotted The two upcoming components were spotted by TUM_APISAK in the not so user-friendly, User Benchmark database. The outlet is known to show biased in favor of Intel’s CPUs and NVIDIA’s GPUs. It is still a decent resource for hardware leaks but performance leaks should only be of usage if we compare the same vendor due to the aforementioned bias....
