HeyJaredArol Wright
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 66
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- Sep 28, 2026
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- Jul 5, 2026
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I'm skipping the Windows File Explorer and using this 30-year-old command-line tool to move files (opens the original)
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File Explorer handles most copy jobs, but it stumbles when transfers get large, long, or interrupted. Microsoft has shipped a command-line alternative for roughly three decades, though, and believe it or not, it's already on your PC. Here's what Robocopy is, where it beats the graphical approach, and who should bother learning it. By creating an account, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. You also agree to receive our newsletters; you can unsubscribe any time. *Required: 8 chars,
This is the only smartwatch band I’ll ever use (opens the original)
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I've tried them all. Silicone, metal, and everything in between. Official and unofficial. And yet, I keep coming back to one specific kind of band with every smartwatch I've owned. By creating an account, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. You also agree to receive our newsletters; you can unsubscribe any time. *Required: 8 chars, 1 capital letter, 1 number By creating an account, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. You also agree to receive our newsletters; you can
Windows finally let me rip Bing out of my desktop. The speed boost is undeniable (opens the original)
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Windows 11 has long baked Bing into local search, and escaping it meant editing the registry. Version 26H2 finally adds a proper toggle. Here is what search looked like before, how much faster it feels now, and whether switching Bing off is worth it. By creating an account, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. You also agree to receive our newsletters; you can unsubscribe any time. *Required: 8 chars, 1 capital letter, 1 number By creating an account, you agree to our Terms of Use a
I finally figured out why Windows 11's menus feel so slow—and the fixes that take seconds (opens the original)
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For months, right-click menus and legacy context options on my Windows 11 machine felt like they were lagging half a beat behind my mouse. The delay wasn't imaginary — it's baked into several layers of the operating system, and untangling it revealed fixes that take mere seconds. Windows 11's perceived sluggishness rarely comes from a single culprit; it's the layering of several small design decisions, each adding a few milliseconds, and those milliseconds compound the more menus someone opens i
Why I always "burn in" new HDDs before adding them to my NAS (opens the original)
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Hard drives rarely announce their flaws on day one. A new disk can sail through setup, then fail weeks later with your data on it. That's why I spend a fair amount of time stress-testing every new HDD first before I put it somewhere important. Here's what burn-in is, how it works, and whether you should bother. By creating an account, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. You also agree to receive our newsletters; you can unsubscribe any time. *Required: 8 chars, 1 capital letter, 1
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