How to Fix Hard Drive Problems with Chkdsk in Windows 7, 8, and 10

Did You Know? Baseballs in Major League Baseball have a very short shelf life, the typical ball is only used for a few pitches before being permanently retired–in a single game the teams may go through 100 baseballs or more. Geek Trivia The Bulk Of The World’s Citric Acid Supply Is Created By? Industrial Waste Byproduct → Chemical Synthesis → Citrus Fruits → Mold Byproduct → Advertisement Download the Essentials of Information Security Kit: Includes a Free PC Security Handbook - 2nd Edition eBook The Essentials of Information Security brings together the latest in information, coverage of important developments, and expert commentary to help with your Information Security related decisions. Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? At some point in the past you subscribed to the How-To Geek newsletter, but if you'd like to change the frequency or unsubscribe, you can do so by clicking the button. Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles By popular request, we're including a quick list of the daily articles at the top of the daily email as well as the regular format near the bottom. How to Use the Snipping Tool in Windows to Take Screenshots How to Make a Double Exposure Image in Photoshop How to Fix Hard Drive Problems with Chkdsk in Windows 7, 8, and 10 The Best Free Ways to Share Photos With Friends and Family (Other Than Facebook) Smart Light Switches vs. Smart Light Bulbs: Which One Should You Buy? How to Get Your Mac’s Esc Key Back by Remapping Caps Lock How to Restore Your Chromebook’s Original BIOS and Software Extending Your Android Device’s Battery Life How to Remove Local User Accounts From the Login Screen in Windows How to Disable the Lock Workstation Functionality (Window+L) in Windows How to Get iOS’ “Raise to Wake” to Work Every Single Time What Is the ProgramData Folder in Windows? Geek Comic Today's Tech Term DWIM DWIM (short for Do What I Mean) refers to computer systems and technology that should anticipate and do what users intend to do rather than what users say to do. What We're Reading This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. Addicted to Your iPhone? You're Not Alone Tristan Harris believes Silicon Valley is addicting us to our phones. He's determined to make it stop. [The Atlantic] The Future of Email Privacy is Plausible Deniability In a hackable world where neither the NSA nor Sony Pictures nor John Podesta could safeguard their private communications, the surest way to keep data secure may be surrounding it with decoys. [The Atlantic] What happened to all the Neanderthal genes? When Neanderthal genes made it to humans, they were largely weeded out. [ArsTechnica] Harvard's 'Computers': The Women Who Measured the Stars In the early 20th century, Harvard employed women as "computers" whose job it was to compare photographic plates of the night sky. Their work helped lay out some of the fundamental assumptions of astronomy. [Space.com] How to Use the Snipping Tool in Windows to Take Screenshots There are lots of tools out there for taking screenshots in Windows. However, you may not need to install a third party app. Snipping Tool, included in Windows Vista and later, allows you to take screenshots, as well as edit and annotate them. Read This Article → How to Make a Double Exposure Image in Photoshop Double exposure images are popular at the moment. Taylor Swift's Style music video and the True Detective opening theme both used the effect. It's a technique where two separate photos—typically a portrait and a landscape—are blended together into one unusual image. Originally photographers took two photos ("exposures") on the same piece of film to combine them, but now it's usually done with software like Photoshop or GIMP. Read This Article → How to Fix Hard Drive Problems with Chkdsk in Windows 7, 8, and 10 Any time you have hard drive errors—or even strange behavior you might not at first associate with a hard drive—Check Disk can be a lifesaver. Here's a full guide to using the Check Disk tool that comes with every version of Windows. Read This Article → The Best Free Ways to Share Photos With Friends and Family (Other Than Facebook) Facebook might be the default platform for sharing photos, but that doesn’t mean it’s the only free and easy to use option out there. Here are some other solid photo sharing options to make it easy to share photos with friends and family the way you want to. Read This Article → Smart Light Switches vs. Smart Light Bulbs: Which One Should You Buy? If you want to control your lights from your phone or with your voice, you have two options to consider: buy smart bulbs or buy smart light switches. Here’s how to decide between those two options. Read This Article → How to Get Your Mac’s Esc Key Back by Remapping Caps Lock The touch bar on Apple’s new MacBook Pro makes sense. The top row of keys have served specific functions on Macs for over a decade; why not let those specific functions change depending on which application you’re using? Read This Article → How to Restore Your Chromebook’s Original BIOS and Software If you’ve tampered with your Chromebook—to install Windows on your Chromebook, for example—you may have replaced its BIOS with a third-party option. Here’s how to roll all your changes back and turn that Windows or Linux PC back into a Chromebook. Read This Article → Android Guide: Extending Your Android Device’s Battery Life One of the biggest gripes among mobile users—iPhone or Android—is battery life. The status quo for battery life seems to be about a day: from the time that someone wakes up in the morning and unplugs their phone from the charger to the point where they plug it in at night before they go to bed. That’s an understandable and reasonable request. Read This Article → How to Remove Local User Accounts From the Login Screen in Windows If you have multiple user accounts on your computer, you might find it annoying to have to click on the icon for your username each time you start up the computer. To remedy this problem, you can hide a user account with a registry hack. Read This Article → How to Disable the Lock Workstation Functionality (Window+L) in Windows By default, using the Windows+L key combination locks Windows, so you have to re-type your password to use the computer. If you find yourself occasionally hitting that combination by accident—and you don’t really have a need to lock Windows—here’s how to disable it. Read This Article → How to Get iOS’ “Raise to Wake” to Work Every Single Time Raise to Wake is a new feature in iOS 10. When you pick your iPhone up, the screen is supposed to turn on so you can see all the revamped notifications on the lock screen. Read This Article → What Is the ProgramData Folder in Windows? On modern versions of Windows, you’ll see a “ProgramData” folder on your system drive—usually the C:\ drive. This folder is hidden, so you’ll only see it if you show hidden files in File Explorer. Read This Article → Advertisement Download the Essentials of Information Security Kit: Includes a Free PC Security Handbook - 2nd Edition eBook The Essentials of Information Security brings together the latest in information, coverage of important developments, and expert commentary to help with your Information Security related decisions. Click here to download