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The siren has sung and you’ve finally succumbed to her call: You’re the proud owner of a shiny new PC, a faster SSD, or a bigger hard drive. It’s time to sell or donate your old gear and start playing with your new toys, right? Not so fast. First you need to securely erase the data off your existing storage drives so you don’t become a victim of identify theft. Simply deleting the data off your hard drive doesn’t erase it as you might expect. Instead, NTFS (the file system used by Windows PCs) just hides the data from immediate view, leaving it to be overwritten when a new file takes up residence on the drive. That’s a workable scenario for everyday use, but it could spell disaster when it’s time to part with an old machine—and as a recent report about decommissioned routers leaking sensitive business data shows, some people do hunt for leftover information scraps. http://forum2.extremum.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5386&start=10 http://forum2.extremum.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=53...

A tiny BIOS chip lurks inside every computer, sitting on your motherboard to breathe life into your system when you press the power button. It not only powers your PC, but helps protect it, too—as evidenced by AMD’s decision to work with partners to push out critical BIOS updates for AM5 motherboards after new Ryzen 7000 X3D chips started literally (though infrequently) burning out. BIOS stands for basic input and output system, and the BIOS chip initializes all the other devices in your PC, like the CPU, GPU, and motherboard chipset. But a few years ago, motherboard manufacturers—in partnership with Microsoft and Intel—introduced a replacement for traditional BIOS chips dubbed UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface). Almost every motherboard shipping today has a UEFI chip rather than a BIOS chip (UEFI is a Windows 11 system requirement, in fact), but they both share the same core purpose: preparing the system to boot into the operating system. That said, most people still call th...

Find yourself suddenly needing to be more productive? Good news! Windows 10 comes loaded with all sorts of tools designed to help you Get Things Done, along with deeper tweaks that can optimize the operating system for productivity even more. Each new major upgrade adds even more. Now for the bad news: All those excellent productivity-boosting Windows tools and tweaks aren’t immediately obvious, with many of the most useful settings buried deep inside a maze of options menus. (There’s a reason we need to publish articles like 10 little-known Windows features that will blow your mind.) We can help. Taking five or ten minutes to tinker with Windows 10 can supercharge your setup, regardless of whether you’re trying to keep at work while stuck at home or setting up something more permanent. And now that Windows 10 won’t receive any more feature updates, these awesome tricks should be locked-in forever. Better yet, most of these tips also work just fine for Windows 11, though their exact lo...

At long last, you can link your iPhone with a Windows PC—at least, you can if you’re running Windows 11. Anyone still on Windows 10 isn’t missing out on as much as you might think, though. You don’t get the same experience as when pairing an iPhone with a Mac. So while you can use Microsoft’s Phone Link app to interact with your iPhone’s text messages, make phone calls, and see phone notifications, some functions come with caveats, particularly text messages: Group, picture, and other media messages won’t show in conversation threads. You will see notifications for those kinds of incoming messages, though. http://lesnightwarrior.free.fr/Forum/viewtopic.php?p=2661 http://lesnightwarrior.free.fr/Forum/viewtopic.php?p=2768 https://www.101skins.com.tw/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=4150631 https://www.101skins.com.tw/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=4230275 http://forumsevengroup.free.fr/viewtopic.php?p=5128 http://forumsevengroup.free.fr/viewtopic.php?p=1514 https://forum.interstate420p...

Logging into a website or service using the traditional username and password combination isn’t the best or safest way of going about it anymore. As cybercriminals become more technologically advanced, data protection methods must also move forward. This is where new authentication standards such as FIDO2 can become a useful tool in battling the issue. But, what are FIDO2 specifications and requirements? Moreover, how do FIDO2 websites even work? We’ll answer these and many other essential questions pertaining to this passwordless authentication standard in this detailed overview. Continue reading to learn everything about the FIDO2 standard. https://ifutures.pl/infoworks-icm-2023-t79769.html https://ifutures.pl/pioneer-t80170.html https://goazzure.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5167 https://goazzure.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6104 http://forums.fanntic.com/viewtopic.php?t=57363 http://forums.fanntic.com/viewtopic.php?t=57680 http://www.iphoneforumz.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=129480 http://ww...