If Windows keeps assigning a drive letter to the recovery partition on your system, this post will show you how to fix it. A recovery partition is a special partition that contains the Windows ...

If you've installed the big Windows 11 update that Microsoft pushed out in August (which also includes the new Black Screen of Death), you'll notice a brand new entry in Settings: Quick Machine ...

In a perfect world, our phones and tablets would never cause us any problems, and we'd go about our daily lives with every app and feature working flawlessly. Unfortunately, things don't often happen ...

Zach was an Author at Android Police from January 2022 to June 2025. He specialized in Chromebooks, Android smartphones, Android apps, smart home devices, and Android services. Zach loves unique and ...

Apple's macOS, through UNIX, provides a variety of tools to keep your drives healthy, with one of them being the fsck Terminal command. Here's how to use it. fsck, or "file system consistency check," ...

If your Mac is having problems, macOS has multiple keyboard combinations that you can hold to recover your system, start in safe mode, run diagnostics, and more. Here's how to use them. Apple's macOS ...

Since its release in 2010, the iPad has dominated the tablet market for good reason: it's easy to use, its larger screen makes it better for media consumption than the average smartphone, it has a ...

The Read Only attribute in Windows 11/10 protects a file from being overwritten, modified, or deleted. As the name implies, when you set the Read Only attribute to a file or folder, you can only view ...