A fresh class action suit claims that Google tricks users into thinking their Drive files are safe from ever being wiped out.

If your hard drive is nearing full capacity, you can delete your Windows temporary files to gain space back again.

Disgruntled employees beware. Erasing files on your company laptop as you leave the firm could trigger expensive civil liability under a federal anti-hacker law, according to a recent 7th U.S. Circuit ...

There are plenty of things that you can do to boost your Windows computer's performance. You can enable fast startup, reduce the number of background-running ...

There are a couple of situations where files on drives may be locked, which will prevent them from being directly removed. As such, even though you have them in the trash and choose the option to ...

OneDrive is Microsoft's cloud-based storage service, and it's aggressively pushed on users of Windows. They want your files ...

A: The simple answer to the question as asked is “no.” But there are almost never any simple answers when it comes to computers. There is usually an exception or an alternate way of doing something, ...

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Lana Y. writes in with a problem related to getting rid of files in OS X. Like many people, she wants to use Trash as a way station and then opt to empty trash later. Instead, she notes (along with ...

Microsoft is warning Word for Windows users about a bug that might see their files disappear when they try to save them. While the computing giant works on a fix, users are being told to be careful ...