What Are the FOUND.000 Folder and FILE0000.CHK File in Windows?

Did You Know? The removal of in-flight magazines has saved airlines big money—American Airlines saved approximately $350,000 annually in fuel costs via reduced weight when they ditched the ubiquitous SkyMall catalogs from their planes. Geek Trivia The Most Naturally Radioactive Food Is? Bananas → Carrots → Brazil Nuts → Lima Beans → Advertisement Download 2017 Ultimate IT Security Kit (over $16 value!) FREE for a limited time The 2017 Ultimate IT Security Kit compiles the latest information to help you decrease threat exposure and data loss. These resources cover the basics, the important developments, and unique approaches to reduce exploitation. Download this exclusive kit to gain all the knowledge you need to protect yourself and your business! 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 Clear Your Google Search History on Android What Are the FOUND.000 Folder and FILE0000.CHK File in Windows? Are My Smarthome Devices Secure? 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Google and Elon Musk open their AI platforms to researchers Artificial intelligence got a big push today as both Google and OpenAI announced plans to open-source their deep learning code. [Engadget] The brain has more than one multitasking mode Better drivers switch between split- and whole-brain tasks more easily. [ArsTechnica] If You're Looking For Alien Life, How Will You Know If You've Found it? When a robotic probe finally lands on a watery world like Jupiter's moon Europa, what do scientists have to see to definitively say whether the place has any life? [NPR] NASA Wants You to Design and Build a 3D-Printable Mars Habitat Outlined in this new video released on Saturday, NASA wants to begin tackling three major questions: How will we build habitats on Mars? What will they be made of? And finally, can we use Mars's onsite resources to build them, or recycle our own materials to 3D-print habitat components? [Motherboard] How to Clear Your Google Search History on Android If you’re an Android user, Google is ubiquitous throughout the operating system. You can access Google Now on Tap from pretty much anywhere by long-pressing the home button, jump into Google Now directly from the launcher, or say “OK Google” to use your voice from pretty much anywhere in the OS. But each time you do one of those things, it creates a new search entry in your Google History. Read This Article → What Are the FOUND.000 Folder and FILE0000.CHK File in Windows? On some volumes, you may see a new folder called FOUND.000 with a file in it using the .CHK extension. Here’s where those come from, and what they’re for. Read This Article → Are My Smarthome Devices Secure? People often worry about keeping their computers, smartphones, and tablets secure from hackers and malware. But what about your smarthome devices? They can be just as susceptible as any other device on your network, even if it doesn’t seem like it. Read This Article → How to Take Care of Your Home's Appliances So They Last Longer Big home appliances definitely aren’t cheap, but they can last for a really long time if you take care of them and perform the proper maintenance at regular intervals. Read This Article → How to Stop Facebook Videos from Auto-Playing Remember the days when Facebook videos only played when you clicked on them? If you want to return to that far finer age, all you need to do is toggle a few tucked-away settings to stop the auto-play madness. Read This Article → How to Copy Multiple Things to Your Mac’s Clipboard at Once You know that thing where you copy something important, forget to paste it anywhere, then copy something else? It sucks, because the important thing you copied first is gone. Read This Article → How to Properly Delete Calendar Spam in iCal A new spam scourge has descended upon unsuspecting Apple Calendar users, and boy is it annoying. Today we’re going to explain how to safely remove it, so hopefully you’re not bothered by it again. Read This Article → How to Delete Your Amazon Account Deleting your Amazon account is the only way to completely erase your purchase history. If you want to delete your account for good, here’s how to give yourself a clean slate. Read This Article → How to Easily Back Up and Migrate Your Browser Bookmarks Most of our browser data isn't too important—cookies expire, and histories eventually get cleared. Bookmarks are different, though, which is why browsers allow you to import and export your bookmarks—ideal for creating backups and migrating between browsers. Read This Article → How to Add Control Panel to Windows’ Context Menu If you find yourself frequently accessing the Windows Control Panel, why not put it where you can get to it the quickest? Right on the context menu. Read This Article → How to Turn Web Apps Into First-Class Desktop Citizens Web apps have been replacing desktop apps for everything from email and document-editing to playing videos and music. You don't have to keep your web apps confined to a browser window—they can become first-class citizens on your desktop. Read This Article → Advertisement Download 2017 Ultimate IT Security Kit (over $16 value!) FREE for a limited time The 2017 Ultimate IT Security Kit compiles the latest information to help you decrease threat exposure and data loss. These resources cover the basics, the important developments, and unique approaches to reduce exploitation. Download this exclusive kit to gain all the knowledge you need to protect yourself and your business! Click here to download