Another thing I highly recommend is having a spare SSD ready with an OS installation of your choice for a rainy day. Sooner ...
There are many ways to make a slow laptop faster, but few are as easy and cost-effective as replacing your existing hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD). Making the swap will, in most cases, ...
Turn off your PC instead of restarting it. Disconnect the power cord. If it is a laptop, disconnect its charger and remove its battery (if removable). Press and hold the power button for up to 45 ...
I have an old machine with W2K on it and it was using an old Adaptec 2940UW as the disk controller. I upgraded the motherboard to one that has onboard U160 SCSI (detected as Adaptec adpu160m), and it ...