Programs are growing in size, games often exceed 50GB, Mac often uses lots of storage in unexplained ways and makes it difficult for you to find out exactly what’s going on. Not knowing what’s on your disk is a good way to lose some of it. As Dave’s Computers is concentrating on data recovery and … Read more
While Dave’s Computers will always be around to recover your data, it would be better for everyone if you didn’t lose it in the first place. One easy way to do that is to treat your hard drives the right way. While designed to be reliable and robust, there are some practical things you can … Read more
A system image is a one to one copy of your operating system drive used to quickly recover your computer if anything happens. If you work or depend on your computer, it’s useful to have one of these images around for if the worst happens. You can rebuild your computer from an image ISO as … Read more
We use passwords for everything. Our online accounts, social networks, web app logins, computer logins, phones, cloud storage, banking, shopping and a whole lot more. When the loss of a password can mean losing data, money, personal details or worse, it makes sense to make that password a good one. As part of a data … Read more
A new version of the most popular Linux distribution, Ubuntu has been released into the wild. Ubuntu 19.04, Disco Dingo has hit release and is said to offer more stability, security, performance and some visual tweaks too. As we use Ubuntu here at Dave’s Computer in New Jersey, we are very interested in what’s new.
A user account is essential for managing multiple users on a computer. It is where your configurations and favorites are stored and where account limits are enforced. The main user must have a Microsoft account but all other users can use either Microsoft or local user accounts. Today we will show you how to create … Read more
Apple Macs are usually very reliable and just get the job done with the minimum of fuss. It’s one of the reasons they are so popular. But what if your Mac won’t boot? What if it gets stuck on the white loading screen? This happened to a Dave’s Computer customer this week and we were … Read more
RAID, or a Redundant Array of Independent Disks, is a way of sharing data across multiple hard drives to enhance redundancy. It is usually used in business as a resilience measure but can also be used on home computers too. If you have three or more of the same hard drive, running RAID is a … Read more
I personally dislike this trend towards games launchers. I don’t trust them, they include large installations, try to control all your games, even non-brand games and are likely to report back far more data than we want them to. If you use EA Origin for your games, you need to update it right away. We … Read more
If you own an Asus PC and have been reading recent headlines, you may be a little worried. So what’s the story and do you really need to be concerned? Dave’s Computers investigates. The story broke in March that potentially millions of Asus computers had been unwittingly infected with malware. The ShadowHammer malware was sneaked … Read more
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