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4 Easy Ways to Copy a Large Number of Files Quickly in Windows

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https://www.maketecheasier.com/copy-large-number-files-windows/   By   Elsie Biage   – Posted on   Jun 27, 2019   in   Windows Windows has come a long way as an operating system, but copying files from one location to another is one aspect about it that continues to disappoint. While copying/pasting files are generally fine, when you are dealing with a large number of files, the whole operation will get flimsy. Windows 10 may give you a constant graphical indication of the current copying speed; in fact, it starts off quickly but then gradually goes up and down in large increments. If you copy large files regularly, the built-in file transfer system in Windows is slow and takes a lot of time to move files. Thankfully, you can supercharge the process with a few alternative methods that can help move and copy your files much faster. 1. Robocopy (Robust File Copy) This is a built-in tool in Windows, found in Command Prompt, which offers more po...

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4 Useful Freeware to Check and Repair Bad Sectors on SSD Drives

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https://www.maketecheasier.com/freeware-check-repair-bad-sectors-ssd-drives/ By   Tracey Rosenberger   – Posted on   Jun 21, 2019   in   Windows It’s frustrating to deal with a computer that is freezing, won’t boot, or has information that is unreadable. There can be any number of issues that could be causing these issues, and determining the cause is not always easy. One of the issues you should check for is the presence of any bad sectors on your hard disk. Bad Sectors Bad sectors occur when a portion of the hard disk can no longer be written to or read. When you store something on the hard drive, the information is saved on more than one sector, which may or may not be adjacent to one another. If any sector with information from that file is damaged, it will be impossible to access that file without errors occurring. The bad sectors of a hard drive cause poor performance and overheating of your PC because it is very difficult to read the data ...

The 9 Best Google Maps Alternatives You Should Try

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https://www.maketecheasier.com/google-map-alternatives/  By   Robert Zak   – Posted on   Jun 9, 2019   in   Internet Google Maps is good. Let’s just get that out of the way first. Google’s ever-updating, ever-improving navigation is popular and robust enough to have more or less brought on the death of the paper map, and it feels like it’s getting more and more accessible by the day. But there are still reasons why you wouldn’t want to, or can’t, use Google Maps. Some countries, like China, run a pretty tight ship when it comes to regulation, making Google Maps over there as good as useless, or maybe you just don’t want Google algorithms profiting off your data. Whatever your reasons, we won’t pry, and instead treat you to the best map apps that aren’t prefaced with “Google.” 1. OsmAnd Platforms:   Android ,   iOS One of the best features of this robust open-source navigation app is the presence of offline maps, whi...

10 YouTube URL Tricks You Should Know About

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https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-youtube-url-tricks-you-should-know-about/ Ben Stegner   Updated   January 23, 2019   6 minutes 10 YouTube URL Tricks You Should Know About Email   Facebook   Pinterest   Twitter Though   YouTube remains the premier video site   on the web, you probably don’t think much about customizing it. But whether you’re a casual user or watch online videos every day, there are all sorts of ways to tweak YouTube. A major category of these are special YouTube URLs. Let’s look at some YouTube URL tricks to help you get more out of the service, like turning videos into GIFs. 1. Link to Any Part of a Video Typically, when you copy a link to a YouTube video, it starts from the beginning. If you want to show someone just a bit of a video or skip a lengthy intro, you can append a time stamp to the URL to start it at that time. You can do this in a couple of ways. By manually adding   &t=...