I started with “A” and a Word document labeled “Advicetokids.” It was followed by 149 files—and that was just the A’s. This was going to be a huge project.

Your phones and computers hold more than you might realize. The files that you can view by default on Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS are by no means everything that's stored on those systems. These ...

Hint: Tackle your photos last. By Jancee Dunn My sister Heather, a fourth-grade special education teacher, maintains a hyper-organized system on her work computer. All students have their own folders, ...

It’s very easy to say “you must back up your computer,” but doing so can sometimes feel like a chore. After all, catastrophic data loss doesn’t feel like it should be a common occurrence. It couldn’t ...

About 10 years ago, a prominent tech executive confidently informed me that computer files would become obsolete. The exec was Bret Taylor, who at the time was building a Microsoft Word alternative ...

We never know when our hard drive will stop working, and we lose important data. It is a high risk of data loss during a cyber attack or natural disaster. Therefore, it is always a good idea to ...

CleanMyPC is a cleaning utility for Windows computers. It’s designed to improve your computer system’s performance by getting rid of junk files and other unnecessary data. It features a number of ...