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Jan 23, 2024 | 
technewstoday.com | Abhishek Silwal
Windows Defender is a good enough antivirus for most general users, provided you adopt safe internet practices. It’s not only free and performance-friendly but also provides better-than-average malware protection. However, it may not protect your system against all threats. If you are carrying very sensitive data or need top-of-the-line security, other antivirus solutions might be better instead. Let’s now discuss what makes Microsoft Defender the optimal choice for basic users.
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Jan 21, 2024 | 
technewstoday.com | Abhishek Silwal
Choosing the SSD is not just about getting the optimal performance for the best price. You should also consider the drive’s capacity and theoretical lifespan. On top of that, you’ll find lots of SSD manufacturers in the market, and even more models from the same brand. So you must be extra careful before making a purchase. These are the factors you should consider: The total capacity for your SSD depends on your PC usage.
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Jan 18, 2024 | 
technewstoday.com | Abhishek Silwal
Disk Cleanup and Storage Sense help to scan and clean junk files in your computer. Not only do they free up some storage space, but also improve your system performance. It’s always best to configure automatic cleanup of the junk files using storage sense to run every month. Regardless, you should also manually run these tools if you run out of C drive space or after a power failure/crash.
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Jan 16, 2024 | 
technewstoday.com | Abhishek Silwal
Driver signatures verify the integrity of the driver software and their developers. Windows enforces the verification of driver signatures before installing or loading them as a security measure. While this enforcement does protect your system against malicious threats, you may have to disable it in two situations. First– if you need to install a driver without a valid driver signature, and second– as a temporary fix for specific Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) loops.
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Jan 16, 2024 | 
technewstoday.com | Abhishek Silwal
Driver Signature Enforcement prevents loading or installing drivers without valid digital signatures to protect your system. However, it also means that you can’t use any unsigned drivers even when you know they are safe. Fortunately, you can disable this enforcement temporarily or permanently. To disable driver signature enforcement, select the relevant option in the Advanced Startup’s startup settings, or use some bcdedit commands on Command Prompt.
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Jan 15, 2024 | 
technewstoday.com | Abhishek Silwal
With SSDs outselling hard drives and standing out in a lot of ways, you may be wondering if hard drives are still worth it. Well, it all comes down to storage and cost benefits vs performance. Hard drives provide high storage capacity at a reduced cost, which makes them a suitable choice if your primary need is storage rather than read/write speed. These include backups, secondary drives for personal data, and light-purpose NAS setups.
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Jan 15, 2024 | 
technewstoday.com | Abhishek Silwal
It’s best to disable hibernation for an SSD or if you have a multi-boot system. But for a system with an HDD, keep it enabled instead. When you hibernate your computer, Windows uses a reserved space on the C drive, as a hiberfil.sys file, to store your current activity. This way you can resume your work from where you left it on the next boot. Starting from Windows 8, the system also uses this space to speed up boot time with fast startup.
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Jan 10, 2024 | 
technewstoday.com | Abhishek Silwal
While you can create at least 128 partitions on your system, such a large number is overkill. In fact, 5 or fewer partitions should be sufficient for all users. The exact number depends on how you want to use your PC. To better understand my recommendations, let’s move on to the individual scenarios. If you mainly use your computer to check emails, shop online, browse through social media, and so on, a single partition should be enough.
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Jan 8, 2024 | 
technewstoday.com | Abhishek Silwal
Incognito mode provides a private browsing session. This session does not store website cache, cookies, login details, browsing history, or other browser activity. However, it only provides this privacy feature for the local computer. It does not mask your activity on the internet. The websites you visit, your ISP, or your network administrator can always monitor you. Let’s go through everything in detail.
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Jan 7, 2024 | 
technewstoday.com | Abhishek Silwal
Virtual memory acts as an additional memory resource on your system if it runs out of RAM. For that, it uses some reserved disk space, which you’ll find as a hidden pagefile.sys file. Since virtual memory uses up additional disk space automatically, it’s not necessary to manually limit its size unless you experience any system instabilities. If however, you do run into some issues, check the total memory resources you need for your work. Then, specify the virtual memory (pagefile) sizes accordingly.
