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What are the following details of your machine? make model storage size

Convinced it's all a con - wouldn't touch any of it.

Right click taskbar, select taskbar settings, select autohide for desktop/tablet.

The original post is ten years old!

If the laptop has bluetooth, yes.

This thread is more than six years old - and your post contains a spam link!

Nice one. I've always preferred a direct and simple route to log off/restart/shutdown and ever since the demise of XP I've run with this group of icons on my taskbar:

The whole range of components to disk access in various modes (sequential and the many types of random) is very involved but one component alone (seek time - the time taken to identify the location of data and then move the heads to the required ) is typically many times hat of the actual...

Have you tried using the File export feature in Audacity?

Next best thing to a nuclear assault - that will do nicely (but as a tight-pursed Yorkshireman I would still go for forensic wiping and get a few quid for it on ebay! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_of_Norwich

20H2 is a fairly minor update and will not remove any installed apps or user data. Your Windows system will simply have some features added. The 20H2 update has also previously been tested over time time by a large group of volunteer users called Windows Insiders so should be quite stable...

Hi Jean. All well here as with Julian of Norwich! Gpart is a useful tool but the process you describe will do little more to secure data on the drive than reformatting under Windows, it is simply recreating drive partitions and wiping the directories - all your data will still be stored on the...

A quick format does not actually remove or overwrite any data. A full format doesn't do much better. Only a forensic wipe will completely remove data. That's the bad news in a nutshell. The good news is (as you have referred to already): 1. The retailer has told you that they "removed"...

Why is the printer being given a dynamic address on a class C network 192.168.*.* and where is it being allocated from? Why not just used DHCP from the router to allocate a class A address on 10.*.*.*

Just got an "oops" posting a jpg.