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Q&A: Is it really dangerous to optimize the Windows Registry?

Posted on September 5, 2025

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Question from Ellen: A couple of years ago I started using a Windows PC for the first time because my Mac died and I couldn’t afford a new one.

When I bought my new laptop the salesman told me that Windows does a horrible job at keeping the system optimized and running smoothly.

He said I needed to buy a program called System Mechanic and use it to clean Windows up every few months. [Read more…]

Understanding the impact of ransomware attacks

Posted on August 18, 2025

Introduction

Over the past decade, ransomware has evolved from a niche cybercrime tactic into one of the most dangerous and costly threats in the digital landscape.

Initially, these attacks targeted individual users for small sums, but they have since scaled into highly organized operations that cripple global businesses, hospitals, schools, and even government agencies. [Read more…]

Icons8: The platform that actually broke the icon curse

Posted on August 15, 2025

Icon Libraries Are Currently Having Their Villain Era

Listen bestie, the icon situation is absolutely unhinged right now and everyone’s just acting like this digital hellscape is totally normal.

Most platforms are creative dumpster fires where designers yeet whatever they sketched during their 3am breakdown and pray someone thinks it slaps. You’re building interfaces that look like they were designed by people who communicate exclusively through passive-aggressive Slack reactions.

The whole ecosystem has big main character energy where every icon thinks it’s starring in its own Netflix adaptation. Someone drops a house icon serving clean minimalist excellence, another designer creates a settings gear giving full cyberpunk breakdown vibes, and somehow these are supposed to coexist without starting beef over visual hierarchy. [Read more…]

Q&A: Do SSDs need to be backed up like a hard drive?

Posted on January 26, 2025

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Question from Brenda: I took my laptop to Best Buy after the hard drive crashed and they installed a 2TB SSD for me. I can’t believe how much faster the computer runs now.

Luckily I had a backup when the hard drive crashed. I was reading an article today that said SSDs don’t break because they have no moving parts, therefore you don’t really need to back them up.

Is that true? [Read more…]

How to prepare for your computer’s next hard drive / SSD crash

Posted on January 21, 2025

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Most people use their computers day in and day out, and chances are you do as well.

Do you ever think about what would happen if a hard drive crash or other disaster wiped away all of their precious files?

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