Will a specific power supply or charger damage a device? I'll look at what's safe and what's not.

Losing access to your Facebook account means losing everything within it forever. Make sure the important stuff is saved elsewhere.

Initial panic about the Microsoft Recall feature is overblown. If you're worried about that, you're worried about the wrong thing.

Commercial software can be expensive. Can you just pirate software if you can't afford it? You can guess my answer, but even better: theft isn't necessary.

CHKDSK can't check an empty drive, and Windows considers RAW to mean empty.

If your format happened quickly, it's unlikely your data was actually erased. I'll show you the difference.

Having your email automatically or continually signed in to can be a security risk in some situations, but very convenient in others.

Passwords are dying. On some services, you can start playing with the process by creating a secure password... and then forgetting it.

Here are my latest recommendations for specific security software and techniques.

This is a system designed to help you recover your email account if something should go wrong... and things go wrong more often than you would like to think.