Long gone, but now back… sort of. :)
Yikes! I hope that’s all that was damaged. Because the USB socket may still be receiving power from the PC, start by turning off the PC completely: Unplug it from the wall, and remove any battery (if possible), etc. With the PC totally off and inert, you’re free to use any small tool you wish…
What a strange and dangerous way to hide a file! Because it was hidden, there’s no good way to track what happened. But you might — might — be able to recover the file. I assume you searched the entire disk for the file, including the Recycle Bin. You might also try searching for both…
Yup. It’s not a widespread practice, but floppies crop up in places you might not expect. One spectacular example: The U.S. is still using floppy disks to run its nuclear program ( https://www.cnn.com/2016/05/26/us/pentagon-floppy-disks-nuclear/index.html ) US nuclear force still uses floppy disks ( https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36385839 ) The Pentagon’s Huge Atomic Floppies ( https://time.com/4348494/pentagon-nuclear-floppy-disks/ ) Yes, The Pentagon…
(Answer requested by Irwin Chung) Frown on? No. It’s a matter of individual taste. Both styles of fried clams, as we know them today, are local inventions anyway, created in towns on the Massachusetts coastline, north of Boston. The now-classic recipe for deep fried, breaded whole clams (with “bellies”) was created by “Lawrence Henry ‘Chubby’ Woodman from Essex, Massachusetts….
Ah, the ouroboros thing — software eating its own tail, or something. 🙂 If everything works as it should, the uninstaller should successfully uninstall itself, no big deal. Because the uninstaller is running, some of its in-use files may not be able to be properly removed right away. If everything is working as it should,…
Easily! In Win10 on a standard PC, it takes about a minute: Type hibernate into the Cortana/Search box; select Power & sleep when it’s offered. When Power & sleep opens, click Additional power settings. A new Window will open. On the left side of the new window, click Choose what the power buttons do. Click…
It depends on what level of snooping you want to guard against. But in all cases, it’s smart to start by reformatting and data-wiping any kind of drive/memory that you’re discarding. So, that’s the first step. Next, you can deter casual snoops simply by destroying the physical USB package: Use pliers to break off the…
Depends on what kind of changes you mean; and on variables such as which OS you’re using. For example, if you pre-vacation shutdown included a pending update to a new version of Windows (perhaps without you realizing it), the update would complete when you next turned on the PC — even if that was after…
If the product is well-designed, it will be built to withstand normal shipping temperatures while off: Think of a cargo container full of PCs baking for days in the sun on the deck of a ship transiting the tropics; or deep-chilling for hours in an airliner’s cargo hold; etc. That doesn’t meant your laptop is…
(Answer requested by Shane Zimmerman) Actually, yes! (And I’m not talking about recovering a long, useless string of zeros!) Zeroing (or One-ing) out a drive — filling it with all Zeros or all Ones — will make it unrecoverable to consumer gear, but maybe not to specialized equipment. Here’s why: A One laid on top…