To make sure the IT department keeps its mitts of your personal files, run a file-shredding utility to permanently destroy the data.

There are files and folders on your personal computer that you genuinely don't need. Here's how to clean out unnecessary junk and free up storage.

When you store files on a regular hard drive (not a solid state drive), the data is accompanied by a virtual "pathway". This acts like a set of instructions that lets your computer know where the ...