Hardware refresh

October will be here before you know it, and Microsoft will pull the plug on Windows 10 support. The great migration to Windows 11 will now have to begin and if you still haven’t decided what to do, t

Q I installed a graphics driver using the new Nvidia app recently, but afterwards I noticed that Windows wasn’t recognising my 5Gbps USB-A ports. The 10Gbps USB-A ports are working. I’d restored Windo

The CPU in your phone, tablet or computer processes billions of operations a second. On the microscopic scale, that means opening and closing billions of tiny electrical gates. This is done using elec

October is within touching distance, and it’s now possible to hear the rumble of shredding machines being readied for the mass culling of millions of machines. A conversation with customers about the

USB sticks have shrunk in physical size as they’ve grown in capacity. That’s probably why nobody calls them ‘thumb drives’ any more –‘half-your-little-finger drives’ would be more accurate. However, i

SCORE PRICE Around £150 from ebay.com Right now, one of those memory erasers from the Men in Black movies would be a godsend. It would allow me to wipe clean the computing knowledge I’ve accumulated o