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This is your Rick’s Daily Tips Tech Update for Thursday, June 17, 2021.
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Topics covered in this issue…
–Why you’ll never need to ‘defrag’ an SSD
–Find the perfect frame for a screenshot from a YouTube video
–How to disable Windows 10’s horrible ‘Weather Widget’
–Q&A: What does ‘Unlimited data with no hard data limits’ mean?
–Time is precious and fleeting. Use it wisely.
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Today’s Quick Tip….
Most long-time Windows users are familiar with the Defrag utility that optimizes the PC’s hard drive and puts all the various pieces of fragmented files back together again.
Well, I have good news for you…
If your PC is running Windows 10 you really don’t need to manually ‘defrag’ your hard drive because the operating system does a pretty good job at cleaning things up without your help.
You can still run the Defrag utility any time you want to though, and it can help a very tiny amount.
Just be aware that you should never, ever defrag a solid state drive (SSD).
Why? Two reasons:
1 – SSDs don’t need to be defragged in the first place because fragmented files on SSDs don’t cause problems like they do with spinning hard drives.
2 – Excessive ‘writes’ to flash memory cells can cause an SSD to fail prematurely.
Bottom line: If your computer has an SSD instead of a hard drive you really need to leave the Defrag utility alone.
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From the blog…
How to quickly find the perfect frame for a screenshot from a YouTube video
If you’ve ever tried to find the perfect frame to take a screenshot from a YouTube video you know how difficult it can be. This tip makes it a lot easier.
How to disable Windows 10’s horrible ‘Weather Widget’
If you dislike Windows 10’s new Weather (aka News and Interests) widget you can easily disable it. This post explains how.
Q&A: What does ‘Unlimited data with no hard data limits’ mean?
A reader wants to know what HughesNet means when they say their satellite Internet plans come with ‘Unlimited data with no hard data limits’. This post has the answer.
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Today’s inspirational post from ‘My Daily Smile’…
Time is precious and fleeting. Use it wisely.
Time is one of our most precious possessions, but it’s incredibly easy to waste it. And once it’s gone, it’s gone forever.
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