Personal Computer Fixes Blog
Even though hard drives are getting larger and larger, disk space on your PC is still limited. And if you have an SSD, then you’re still facing the problem of running out of disk space. Luckily, there are ways to...
Microsoft is notorious for thinking than they know better than you, the Windows user. In a lot of cases what they do is actually helpful, but way too often their actions resulted in privacy concerns and bad user experience. Now,...
We’re all so used to Windows slowing down over time, that we accept that even Windows 8 and 10 will become slow over time. But your PC doesn’t have to be slow. There are many reasons why it can...
When you check out system files on Windows 10 and Windows 8, you’ll see that there are not only Pagefile.sys and Hiberfil.sys present, but that there’s a new file called Swapfile.sys. Don’t worry, it’s not a virus – this file is...
If you’ve upgraded your Mac OS X and tried the new Photos app, you must’ve appreciated all the cool new features it has. Photos is a pretty cool upgrade to iPhoto, but there’s one thing that the app can’t do...
Windows 10 has lots of cool new features, but some of its functions are a bit shifty. One of them is that by default Windows 10 shares your Wi-Fi password with people you have as contacts in Outlook, Facebook and...
In the past, figuring out which programs were slowing down your computer was not an easy task. You had to poke around and use advanced tools for disabling startup items. Windows 10 makes things easier. It has a tool for managing your startup...
When you’re installing apps to your Windows 10 OS from the Windows Store, they all get installed on the C drive by default. That’s OK if you have a large C drive and don’t want to change the default settings....
Have you ever been annoyed by inability to run programs as administrator automatically? While this is not a PC error that needs fixing, there are situations where you might prefer to run programs automatically as an administrator of your computer...
You’re trying to delete a file on your Windows PC only to get a “File in Use” error. This is one of the most annoying errors that has been nagging Windows users since the very early days and, even though...