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Tag: Hard drive

Disable Hibernation of the Hard Disk in Windows 10

Thursday, August 16, 2018

Windows 10 defaults your computer to sleep after a few minutes of inactivity to save power. However, it is possible to disable the hard disk standby for technical reasons or to keep the performance and avoid the loss of these few seconds of waking.

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How to Rename a USB Key or External Hard Drive

Thursday, October 18, 2018

On Windows, each drive and storage device uses a friendly name that helps you identify it. For example, the drive that contains your Windows operating system is called Local Disk, while a USB drive does not have a name or uses the default name of Removable Disk.