the-how-to-geek-old
The How-To Geek
the-how-to-geek-old

@timh78: Your point about the outside of the disk is a good point - however any good defrag software is going to move the files to the outer ring already. Read more

@Phoshi: And actually the MS Windows 7 engineering blog has a big article about SSD and pagefiles. Basically, just leave the settings at default, and Win7 will handle it. Read more

@reddingofish: An old hard drive is going to be slower than using your regular, faster hard drive, even though it's a separate drive. Read more

@The_Gas_Man: That's correct. However, in Windows Vista, SuperFetch was not nearly as good - made the hard drive grind quite a bit. Read more

@uberrich: I'm not sure about the block size - I think Windows "pages" are 4k, but I don't know how it translates to actual disk writes. Read more

This thing is Awesome! I'm so thrilled to finally have this on my Chrome Gmail application window. Read more

@Benjamin-OG_TechDork: I probably should have been more clear - I told her the X in the upper right-hand corner of the IE window, and that if anything else popped up after that, to turn off the PC immediately. Read more

@Ronny: When your password is past 20 characters, it doesn't really matter if you have special characters or not, since it's past the point of being brute-force crackable. Read more

@Red_Flag: Yeah, the NoScript extension makes the web wayyy too annoying, especially with all those updates. Read more

@The How-To Geek: After doing a little research, looks like NoScript can now also block Flash as well. Personally I find NoScript to be a bit of overkill most of the time. Read more