There are many ways to make a slow laptop faster, but few are as easy and cost-effective as replacing your existing hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD). Making the swap will, in most cases, ...

Nobody likes waiting forever for their PC to start up, and these tricks can help speed up that process and improve your PC.

I have an older Dell Inspiron 1750 laptop. I replaced its original spinning HDD with a brand new Samsung SSD 850 EVO drive, that was advertised as supporting hardware encryption. So now I'm trying to ...

I'm finally going with an SSD in my new Win 7 64-bit box. I'm thinking 180 GB is the minimum I should consider for an SSD boot drive. On an aging Vista box, the boot drive sizes to around 60GB and ...

Not only will programs launch nearly instantaneously compared to your ancient hard drive, but your computer will boot much faster as well. Just about any desktop computer with a spinning disk should ...

Solid state memory has come a long way in the last few years. So while flash memory modules (including SD cards, Compact Flash cards, 2.5″ SSDs, and the chips that are soldered onto Eee PC, Acer ...

Normally, if you are unable to boot into Windows and cannot access your files, you can create a bootable drive and use the media to boot and repair your OS installation. Perhaps, not widely known by ...

Gilbert wants to know if he should upgrade his boot drive SSD and also wants our opinion on the rest of his rig. Hi gents, and thanks for the section and advice. I have a three-year-old custom build I ...

There are many ways to make a slow laptop faster, but few are as easy and cost-effective as replacing your existing hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD). Making the swap will, in most cases, ...