What Is the "System Volume Information" Folder, and Can I Delete It?

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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 Stop Windows from Adding “- Shortcut” to Shortcut File Names What Is the “System Volume Information” Folder, and Can I Delete It? Control How Long Windows Waits Before Killing Apps at Shutdown How to Provide Guest Access to Your Eero Wi-Fi Network How to Start a Group Chat in WhatsApp How to Mark Up and Share Your Apple Photos How to Remove Chromecast’s New Network-Wide Android Notifications How to Bring Back the Microsoft Office Picture Manager in Office 2013 or 2016 How to Secure Your Amazon Account What Are Denial of Service and DDoS Attacks? Geek Comic Today's Tech Term ACK An ACK (short for Acknowledgement Code) is a transmission control character (usually an ASCII character reserved for that purpose) that is sent from a receiving station to a sending station to indicate that a message or block of data has been successfully received (uncorrupted or with an acceptable number of errors). 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. Easter eggs evolved: Why gamers spent 3-years-plus studying GTAV's Mount Chiliad This unsolved mystery is a perfect artifact of communal sleuthing in the Reddit age. [ArsTechnica] Future Robotic Muscles Could Be Made of Nylon One day you might have a robot butler with muscles made of plastic fibers. [Motherboard] Mobile shopping using Apple Pay, PayPal or Android Pay on your phone still sucks. Here's why. Mobile shopping is often a lousy experience, but things are getting better. You just have to be patient. [CNET] Robots Won't Try To Kill Us, Says Stanford's 100-Year Study Of AI Stanford University is taking the long view on the future of AI with an ambitious project that will unfold throughout the century. [Fast Company] How Stop Windows from Adding “- Shortcut” to Shortcut File Names When you make a new shortcut in Windows, it automatically adds “- Shortcut” to the end of the shortcut’s file name. This doesn’t seem like a big deal, but they can be bothersome. Sure, you can remove the text yourself when you create the shortcut, but why not stop it from happening in the first place? Read This Article → What Is the “System Volume Information” Folder, and Can I Delete It? On every Windows drive—even external USB drives—you’ll find a “System Volume Information” folder. You’ll only see it if you have Windows set to show hidden files and folders, but it’s always there. So what is it for? Read This Article → Control How Long Windows Waits Before Killing Apps at Shutdown When you shut down your computer, Windows doesn’t shut down immediately. Instead, it gives running applications and services some time to close first. You can control how long Windows waits—and whether it automatically closes running applications or not. Read This Article → How to Provide Guest Access to Your Eero Wi-Fi Network When you have guests over who want to use your Wi-Fi, Eero makes it really simple to create a guest network for them to connect to. That way they can get internet access, but they won’t be able to access your local network files or other devices. Read This Article → How to Start a Group Chat in WhatsApp WhatsApp is a great way to stay in contact with people, regardless of what smartphone they use. And, like SMS, WhatsApp supports Group Chats so you can talk with a group of friends, your sports team, clubs, or any other group of people. Here’s how to start a group chat in WhatsApp. Read This Article → How to Mark Up and Share Your Apple Photos People really like to take, mark up, and share their fun photo creations. Apps like Snapchat and Instagram let you go to town with your photos, but you can have fun with Apple’s built-in Photos app as well. Read This Article → How to Remove Chromecast’s New Network-Wide Android Notifications In an effort to unify all devices on the same network, Google recently added a new feature to the Google Home app (formerly called “Chromecast”). Now, if someone is playing something on a Chromecast in your home, it’ll show a notification on all the Android devices on your network. That means if your daughter is watching My Little Pony all day, you’ll have to deal with notifications letting you know. Read This Article → How to Bring Back the Microsoft Office Picture Manager in Office 2013 or 2016 If you're using Microsoft Office 2013 or 2016, you may have noticed that the Microsoft Office Picture Manager is not included. Picture Manager was included in Office 2010 and earlier and allowed you to easily view, edit, and manage pictures. Read This Article → How to Secure Your Amazon Account If you’re like me (and nearly everyone I know), you do a lot of shopping on Amazon. Buying gifts? Amazon. Household items? Amazon. Electronics? Amazon. But because it’s so encompassing, it’s also something you’re going to want to take extra care to secure. Read This Article → What Are Denial of Service and DDoS Attacks? DoS (Denial of Service) and DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks are becoming increasingly common and potent. Denial of Service attacks come in many forms, but share a common purpose: stopping users from accessing a resource, whether it’s a web page, email, the phone network, or something else entirely. Let’s look at the most common types of attacks against web targets, and how DoS can become DDoS. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Business Networking For Dummies ($12 Value) FREE For a Limited Time Grow your business, build your career, find more customers, and build a valuable support network of likeminded business people. Click here to download