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A Windows 11 feature has been spotted taking up a significant amount of system memory, leading to slow PCs. Here's how to easily fix the issue.

If your hard drive is getting errors, you can scan for bad sectors and try to fix them with the Check Disk Utility.

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Microsoft has released the optional KB5044384 preview cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2, which includes twenty-four changes, including a bug that caused the sfc /scannow command to always display ...