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My ageing Windows 10 laptop has something modern machines rarely offer: a built-in DVD drive. I have loads of films and home movies on DVD and I don’t want to lose the ability to play these or rip the

It’s tempting to think that deleting a file means it’s gone forever – but that’s not really the case. Data can often be recovered from your hard drive for a long time after it’s supposedly been erased

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Depending on when you’re reading this, Microsoft is either about to end support for Windows 10 or has just done so. It may even have declared the whole thing an elaborate ruse to get more people to us