There are several reasons ransomware will be a scourge for some time to come. Most boil down to, well, us.

Believing and spreading manure -- lies, falsehoods, and misleading implications -- makes you look bad, and makes the internet a dumber place.

There is one most common reason computers slow down over time. The good news is, it's often within your control.

Microsoft Office appears in every new install of Windows 10, but is it really "included"? Yes and no.

Assorted redistributables and shared libraries are installed on your PC by programs that need them. Removing them, while tempting, is fairly risky.

The message "Do you want to scan and fix" means Windows found an error on a recently-attached drive. What you do next depends on how disastrous data loss might be.

You can safely delete setup files after you've set up the corresponding software, but only if you do something important first.

CHKDSK is a powerful Windows utility used to diagnose and repair disks. /F and /R represent two types of repairs.

Avoid ransomware the same way you avoid any malware. A full backup will save you not only from ransomware, but from a host of other problems as well.

Gmail introduced a tabbed interface to automatically categorized email messages. Since their categorization often misses the mark, let's turn it off.