Tip Some people -- like me -- find that when we start up our Dell laptop -- an Inspiron 14, in my case -- the fan races for a disquietingly long time. Checking Task Manager, we see that some Dell services are using up a lot of CPU cycles. It turns out that Dell's software is creating a restore point, in case you need to repair the computer's state to an earlier one. This is a duplicate of what Windows does each time you install an update to Windows, but the Dell one apparently is more thorough and takes place... Read more →
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