A Southern California consumer has taken Microsoft to court in an eleventh-hour bid to block the company’s planned end-of-support for Windows 10, arguing the October 14, 2025 cutoff amounts to forced obsolescence that funnels users into Windows 11 and Microsoft’s AI ecosystem — a legal gambit...
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As Microsoft prepares to officially end support for Windows 10 on October 14, the tech landscape faces a seismic shift—not just in software updates or security standards, but in the sheer volume of obsolete hardware that could soon flood the global waste stream. This date is more than symbolic...
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As the clock ticks down to Windows 10’s official end-of-life, millions of users face a stark crossroads—a crossroads not just defined by Microsoft’s latest operating system, but by a much larger and mostly under-discussed issue: the staggering threat of e-waste. While Microsoft’s pitch for its...
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The Impending Deadline
Microsoft has made it clear: Windows 10 will no longer receive security updates or technical support after the stated deadline. For a significant portion of the user base, this represents a potential security nightmare, as systems become increasingly vulnerable to attacks...
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As we head into the twilight of Windows 10, significant changes are on the horizon, marking a crucial transition for users. The recent update highlights the urgency for users to migrate to Windows 11 as Microsoft gears up to withdraw free support for Windows 10, effective October 2025. With this...
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Every year in the month of April, we celebrate Earth Day. Living in the Pacific Northwest, as the snow begins to melt and the landscape brightens, I reflect on what a privilege it is to live in such a beautiful place. The theme for this year’s global Earth Day is “Invest in Our Planet,” and I...
I am trying to factory reset my Samsung R519 laptop (running Windows 7 home premium) in order to recycle it but have encountered a problem: once the Samsung Recovery Solution 4 utility has finished using the 'initial computer status' recovery option and the system reboots, I still get the...
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I downloaded a video and watched it but now I can't get it to delete.
If I right click on it and hit "delete" it says it is sending it to "recycling" but it never ends.
I would appreciate any ideas as to how to get rid of it
Yeah, so I want to completely start over because my new PC is being laggy and crap. So I selected the 'Reset' option, to completely remove everything. The option like I was 'recycling' rather than keeping the PC. Just wanted to erase everything from the hard drive. Took about 2 hours, as there...
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A small piece of Link Removedorwegian humor. Heh. The link seems to work not-all-that well, best if you pause it at start, and wait til it's downloaded completely.
And we think it's only a machine...
When I was younger, and the places I lived were older, every medicine cabinet had a slot in the back of it to slip razor blades through neer to be seen again...unless someone did some remodeling and tore the wall down. Nowadays I end up collecting them in a little drawer, because I don't like...
I am running windows 7 on a HP Pavillion Elite m9040n PC. My first drive is saying it is full. With all of these folders (my pictures) showing up with pictures in them does that mean I have several duplicates on my hard drive? Are all of these picture icons in the items folders really pictures...
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If you have some handsets lying unused at your home then it is much better to sell them at a top dollar price rather than throwing them in dustbin to decompose in open and pollute the environment. It is estimated that decaying handsets create around seventy thousand toxic waste every year...
Fukushima, May 1 (Jiji Press)--High levels of radioactive cesium have been found in sewage sludge in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, the prefectural government said Sunday.
The sludge at a treatment center in Koriyama had 26,400 becquerels of radioactive cesium per kilogram. Slag...
You are all very aware now of the problems facing Japan after an Link Removed - Invalid URL pretty much destroyed a large area of the country. Many of you are wishing there was more you could do than just Link Removed - Invalid URL too. If you are handy at making DIY tech projects, you may be...
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