data privacy

I have a laptop that I set up as normal when I installed win 8, with my account as the only one. It has some personal files and data that I don't mind losing but I don't want to leave them on the laptop. I want to give it to my daughter and put her on as the main computer user/administrator and...

Hello I read an article about the above topic and tried to figure this out with Google etc. unsuccessfully. I went to PC Settings>SkyDrive>Synch and there were 10 items checked on. I really don't understand which should be on or off. I don't really trust the cloud but have used SkyDrive before...

Is it possibel to hide (temporarily) drives as well (similar to files&folders) ? If yes: How can I achieve this? Peter

In C:\users\user I see a file called 'private' which is 10 gigabytes long. Does this originate from a Windows 7 process? If so, can I safely delete it?

HELP!!!! I noticed that there are several log files on my C:, I drag and dropped it on a notepad and it's all in Chinese characters. I'm not a Chinese, I don't run any Chinese program or software, I don't visit any Chinese websites. Appreciate the help you can provide me. Cheers!

I have reserved a great deal of time not passing judgement on Windows 8, but so far I am not as enthused as, perhaps, I should be. This is not to say that I have given up on Windows 8, but for me, the Consumer Preview just isn't doing it. The main problem, of course, for me, and I suspect many...

A recent look at computer security shows online identity theft scams becoming easy for nefarious individuals who prey on those who lack essential security updates. Anyone experienced in the business need only to look at the serious manner of many, many businesses still running Windows XP without...

Assume I work currently with MS Word and/or an text editor like wordpad. Then (suddenly) the system crashes with bluescreen. A Minidump is automatically created and saved in a Minidump file. After restart I am asked whether I want to send this minidump for further investigation to MS...

Study finds the task to be very difficult; overwriting or crypto-erasure seem the best methods for sanitizing SSDs Until a university study emerged last week, few experts suspected that it's more difficult to erase data stored on solid-state drives (SSD) than that on hard disk drives (HDDs)...

Source: Neowin.net - Exclusive: New Facebook exploit hits the web Update: If your account has been hijacked, take the following steps: 1) Visit the Facebook "Upload via Email" page 2) Click "Send me my upload email" 3) Click the "refresh your upload email" link. This will reset your...

My problem: I've heard that some people call them super cookies and undestructible cookies that can track the whole private data on the computer.How to delete these evercookies? Is there some software that can delete them at all? Thanks for any help :)

I am used to goingto c:\documents and settings and then ripping all the garbage out of ALL USERS so that stuff doesnt get handed out to every subsequent profile that gets added so how do I do that now ???? [email protected]

Hello. I am on a network where my boss has access to all of my data using my id and password via the network (he does not login to my computer). There are personal drives/folders that I would like to hide from him even seeing. Is it possible to set a permission on a drive/folder to be "local...

I've had a recurring issue resulting in the not-so funny blue screens. Well, I've decided to contact the support but and I've considered attaching some minidumps. But before I do I wonder whether they include any personal information, passwords, hell, even what movie I was watching. Hopefully...