Your PC drive is a lot like your desk at work– when you get something new to work on, it gets stacked onto a part of your desk until you are ready to work on it. That’s what we call ‘vertical filing’, and you know if you’re guilty of letting that get out of control. Learn how to search for those lost files the OLD FAST way, or get tips to organize a drive.

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The November PC Updater News is ready. This month:

• Turn off the ‘be a Guinea Pig’ option in Windows Update.
• The annual feature update ’23H2′ for Windows 11 has arrived.
• Outlook (NEW) is the modern Outlook Express.

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Is that email in your morning flood of junk a phish? Or a trojan horse? It is frequently both, as phishing results in the trojan horse being allowed to deliver a load of Greek Soldiers. Or usually malware installation links and scripts. Read more in the July PC Updater News, free.

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The June newsletter is out, and explains why backups aren’t enough any more; you need backups that go back multiple months, to protect yourself from long-hiding ransomware, accidental file deletions, employee sabotage, lightning strikes, and hardware failures. They’re not all the same threats, and the backup approaches need redundancy and flexibility to put everything back as it was before a disaster. June PC Updater News

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