It isn’t as simple as pressing “delete” and emptying the trash. Here’s a step-by-step guide.

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At the same time, dealing with an old, sluggish computer is a frustrating experience. If apps and websites are taking ages to load, it can seriously impact your productivity.

Apple Store. You can recycle your old Apple computers, monitors and peripherals, such as printers, for free at an Apple store, but there's a costly catch. According to the Apple Free Recycling ...

PCs and Macs slow to a crawl as time goes by. But that doesn’t always mean you need a replacement. A few cheap tricks can often bring an old computer back to life. As a man of a certain age, I ...

Migrating from Windows to Windows with Windows Easy Transfer. Windows 7 has a great tool built-in called Windows Easy Transfer, that can grab your data from an old computer—even one running ...

It may seem frugal to re-use that old computer for a new purpose, but more than likely it'll cost more in electricty than you'd spend replacing it with a modern low-power alternative. Learn how to ...

Even when an old computer won’t start up anymore, the hard drive is still in there. From financial data to private photos, that drive could hold all sorts of private information.