The latest computer-related and sundry news articles of particular importance on the PC Buyer Beware! website
Problem – Upgrade Win7 PC: My Win7 computer running Windows 7 has become very slow. Should I upgrade it to Win10 or build or buy a new one? There have been a few fairly recent developments that are no doubt designed to coerce users of Windows 7 computers to upgrade them to Windows 10 computers.…
A serious SSD encryption issue in Windows 10 when using Bitlocker encryption software Many brand-name desktop and laptop PCs come with a single SSD drive or a boot SSD drive plus a standard hard disk drive with a much higher capacity for storage. A serious issues with regard to the hardware-based encryption that SSDs use…
UPS – The solution to power outages crashing desktop PCs and internet connections – Use an Uninterruptible Power Supply unit Laptop computers working from the mains electricity supply have a built-in solution to sudden short power outages – their battery, which kicks in as soon as a power outage occurs without losing any unsaved work.…
If the Opera VPN is enabled, Google displays Russian-language content in Google ads on websites and on Google’s YouTube The Opera web browser provides a connection to a free VPN (Virtual Private Network). The image above shows the home page of Google’s YouTube site displaying Russian-language content. You can see Opera’s VPN icon in white…
The grade results of A Level and GCSE exams favoured by male and female students cannot be compared due to the fact that the sexes tend to study different subjects The charts below that show the subjects, by percentage, studied by boys and girls who sat for the A Level (higher) and GCSE (lower) exams…
How to get Win10 free and use it free any time after the July 29 2016 deadline for the free offer The deadline to obtain Win10 free – the Home or Pro edition – was July 29, 2016. Windows Update upgrades Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 8.1 when the computer owners give it permission by…
CCleaner privacy – the issue of anonymized data collection and alternative crapware cleaners In July 2017, Avast the internet security company, acquired Piriform, the UK developer of the most widely used crapware cleaner, CCleaner. The acquisition brought the fear from the tech community that Avast would use CCleaner to collect data from its 130 million…
Fraudbusters – How victims of large online scams can get their money back if the banks refuse compensation When the customers of banks and other financial sites have been conned into providing login information and access codes supplied by a machine in their possession or via a phone and suffer financial loss, they can be…
New UK data-protection law requires online users’ permission to track them and collect their private information EU/UK “General Data Protection Regulation” (GDPR) data-protection law The UK is still officially in the EU, therefore the new EU “General Data Protection Regulation” (GDPR) data-protection law becomes official across the EU on Friday, May 25, 2018. The new…
The two faces of Google’s YouTube – Google’s discrimination against non-liberal content It looks as if telling the truth about anything has almost been made into right-wing hate crime on social media and Google’s YouTube. Google, Facebook, Twitter and other social media now clearly regard themselves as having a divine right to determine what people…
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