Windows 8.1 Update tip: Clean up that disk space now | PCWorld

Windows 8.1 Update tip: Clean up that disk space now | PCWorld: "Now that you've had about a week to play around with the update—which brings the taskbar to the modern UI, among other welcome additions—the next few days present a good time to clear up extra space on your hard drive by getting rid of some Windows Update files"



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Windows XP lives on: Avast survey shows 27 percent of its XP users don't plan to switch | PCWorld

Windows XP lives on: Avast survey shows 27 percent of its XP users don't plan to switch | PCWorld: "Microsoft may have ended support for Windows XP, but free antivirus software vendor Avast projects that for millions of users, that won’t mean squat."



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Microsoft Office Online Apps are Now Available in the Chrome Store

Microsoft Office Online Apps are Now Available in the Chrome Store: "Microsoft has been on a roll as of late with their Office Online suite, so this week’s announcement about Office Online apps for Chrome just sweetens the deal even more. Now you can pick and choose from Word Online, Excel Online, PowerPoint Online, and OneNote Online apps to make your Chrome browser more productive than ever before!"



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Warning: Anyone Can Recover Deleted Files From Your USB Drives and External SSDs

Warning: Anyone Can Recover Deleted Files From Your USB Drives and External SSDs: "It’s common wisdom that deleted files can’t be recovered from solid-state media, only from traditional mechanical hard drives. But this only applies to internal drives — USB flash drives and external solid-state drives are vulnerable to file-recovery attacks."



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Windows Networking: How to Share Devices With Others On the Network

Windows Networking: How to Share Devices With Others On the Network: "We will start by teaching you how to share a printer with the Homegroup and then how to share it with the network. As you will see, the process is different and using the Homegroup makes things easier and faster."



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