Over-aggressive spam filtering can cause email newsletters and other messages to fail to appear in your inbox. I'll look at why that is, and three steps you can take to improve the situation.

When you lose your second factor, there are two things to be concerned about: getting into your own account -- for which you should be prepared -- and someone else having access to your second factor -- which isn't as scary as it sounds.

Defragging rearranges the layout of files on your hard disk for faster access. Chances are you need do nothing at all.

Windows Update has been known to cause Windows restarts at inopportune times. I'll outline the approach I recommend to keep restarts in control.

While I don't recommend third-party driver update tools, the tools provided by your computer's manufacturer are a different story.

Terminology around email can be confusing, and lead to incorrect answers to misstated questions. I'll review some common and important terms.

Realistically, it's impossible to delete things from the internet. Yet in an apparent contradiction in terms, if you happen to delete something in your control, you also can't get it back.

Email deleted "a long time ago" can be impossible to recover from the provider and difficult to recover from anywhere else.

It does sound strange that a wireless connection could be faster than ethernet. We'll start by looking at the obvious: the cable connection itself.

It's for your own protection, and the result of fascinating mathematical wizardry. And if they can tell you your password? They're doing security wrong.