Daily Archives: January 6, 2025

• Happy New Year!

  Posted on January 6, 2025 at 00:16 CST by Will Fastie

  

  ISSUE 22.01 • 2025-01-06

  EDITORIAL

  

  By Will Fastie

  To begin 2025, we bring you our best advice about keeping your PC spit-polished and ready for another year of hard work.

  The article “Let your PC start the new year right!” has been a staple around here for years. The tradition is now in the capable hands of our resident hardware expert, Ben Myers, after a long run from Fred Langa.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (22.01.0, 2025-01-06).

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• Let your PC start the new year right!

  Posted on January 6, 2025 at 00:15 CST by Ben Myers

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  BEN’S WORKSHOP

  

  By Ben Myers

  Service your Windows PC thoroughly to get a big-time payoff in the coming year.

  First, ask the question “How healthy is my hardware?” before considering what to do with any software. This reflects best practice, and it is exactly what happens here when a computer shows up at my shop in need of attention.

  Messing around with the software on a computer with unhappy hardware can only worsen troubleshooting, analysis, and remediation. More importantly, it can change the content of a solid-state drive or hard drive in unpleasant ways.

  Along the way, I’ll provide some guidelines for selecting or upgrading a system for using Windows 11, or even Windows 10 during its final year of unqualified support.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (22.01.0, 2025-01-06).

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