If no preparations have been made beforehand, accessing the machine of a deceased loved one can be anywhere from easy to impossible.

Your password protects your account from unauthorized access, but it doesn't protect your email address from exposure.

Some backup programs can wake up a sleeping machine, but there are still things that could go wrong and cause a backup to fail.

Facebook account hacks happen. There are steps you need to take, not only to recover your account but to prevent it from being hacked again.

Hibernate and sleep are two optimizations to the boot/reboot process that can speed things up.

Deleting your Facebook account requires some preparation and a fairly well-hidden link. I'll outline the preparation and point you to the link.

Another case of bad tech terminology leads to more than one kind of chrome, some of which have no relation to the others.

Online document conversion services can be safe, or they can represent a real privacy risk. I'll look at the options.

Newer machines often come with multiple partitions. While it's tempting to remove them, there's little to be gained.

Occasionally, one program uses up all of your computer's processing resources. Using Task Manager, it's easy to figure out which program that is.