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 ...

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 ...

Agentic file management shows real productivity promise. Security, scale, and trust remain major open questions. At $100 per month, Cowork is for early adopters only. "With great power comes great ...

If your Windows computer has reset itself and you have lost all your files, one of the following two statements may be true for you: Case 1: Your computer might be infected Case 2: It might be a ...

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 ...

If you haven't been organizing and discarding files as you go, it's likely your hard drive is stuffed with downloads, unwanted photos, file copies and other digital dust bunnies. This can reveal ...

Your phone is the perfect way to capture photos and videos of the moments that matter most to you. However, over time you're ...

Whenever I try to backup my computer files online, I get tripped up somehow. It’s inexplicably complicated, with most products unable to backup all my files simply — and to keep on doing that over ...

I sometimes feel like every week is a new battle for hard drive space. Sure, I can delete some of the games I'm not currently playing, but what if I decide to fire them up later? I don't want to have ...

After buying an external 1TB HDD, I have been backing up all my files to it from various folders and optical media. Thing is, due to a number of reasons (lack of consistency being the chief one), I ...