“Today I hit my laptop because I got angry…”

The note from “K.A.” was confessional and a bit anguished:

• “Today I hit my laptop because I got angry and I’m stupid. The screen glitched and it just rebooted. It went back to work just fine, but I’m paranoid. Did I cause damage? It’s an old Acer.”

The four tools you’ll need to find and fix many impact-related drive errors are built into Win10 — but you may need to employ several unfamiliar and even obscure options to use them to best effect.

How to check your PC’s health after it’s suffered a physical impact —for any reason! — is the topic of my column in this week’s AskWoody Plus newsletter.

Also in this week’s AskWoody Plus edition:

• HARDWARE: Terabyte update: The hard-drive price advantage
• BEST OF THE LOUNGE: Windows10: When all else fails
• PATCH WATCH: Windows 10 2004 has left the barn
• BEST UTILITIES: Freeware Spotlight — Marxio Timer

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• HARDWARE: Terabyte update: The hard-drive price advantage

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