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The USB port on your router is often unused and yet it offers practical functions that can make everyday life easier. You can do things like saving and sharing files, mobile charging, or even an automatic backup of your data. We’ll tell you exactly how this works and what else you can do with your router’s USB port below.

This might be one of the dorkiest articles I’ve ever conceived. My editor even made fun of me for it! But it’s true and I’m not afraid or ashamed to say it — I actually do have a favorite hard drive from 20 years ago that taught me about tweaking and optimizing my PC.

I’m not talking about frames per second or CPU clock rates or sensor temperatures or wirel

I’m a standing desk evangelist. I believe in standing desks so much that if you and I were to meet and get talking and I were to find out you work at a desk, I’d try to convince you to stand at it instead.

I stand almost all day, swaying and rocking on my two feet like a silly person to keep my posture upright and to keep my deep veins from thrombo

The notorious “Blue Screen of Death” — or BSOD for short — is the biggest disaster that can befall a Windows user. The system shuts down with a cryptic error message on a blue background and is only ready for use again after a restart.

Unsaved data is lost. After the restart, Windows runs for a while until the error occurs again. In some instances, the BSOD

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The passage of time is hard on computer parts. Sometimes it’s about how much they wear down over time; other times, it’s the fact that older parts get set aside and forgotten, only to be left behind by time.

For instance, it may seem like PCIe 4.0 just arrived to supercharge NVMe SSD speeds, but that was in 2018! We’ve already moved on to PCIe 5.0, with PCI

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: you can never have enough storage space. Extra SSDs are useful for so many things.

And right now, you can snag this large-capacity pocket-sized portable SSD at a phenomenal price. The Samsung T7 SSD normally retails for $270 but is

SSDs are now the most common type of hard drive in both laptops and desktop PCs. They’re compact, they’re quite, and they outperform traditional hard drives by a mile — but they also tend to slow down over time (and eventually stop working altogether).

But it’s not as bad as it sounds. There are several things you can do to keep your SSD going at tip-top pe