I’ve often found myself deleting files or folders I thought I no longer needed—only to realize later that I did. Sure, the Recycle Bin offers a safety net, but I like keeping it clean.
Think of it like household trash: I toss things into the outside bin, but once it’s hauled to the curb, it’s gone for good.
Sometimes, I want to clear out files that are just taking up space but I’m not 100% sure I won’t need them soon.
For this, I created a separate folder on another drive partition where I store temporary files. My goal? Automatically delete anything older than 30 days.
In this article, I’ll show you two ways to automate file cleanup in Windows 11:
Using a simple script with Task Scheduler
Leveraging Storage Sense to manage Recycle Bin and Downloads folder
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Two-factor authentication (2FA) is essential in helping to protect online accounts. But as more users adopt 2FA across dozens (sometimes hundreds) of accounts, the tools we rely on to manage these codes must scale with us.
Unfortunately, Microsoft Authenticator can’t fill the need for many power users. You may recall my other article on the limitations of Google Authenticator some time ago. I really thought I had something with Microsoft Authenticator, but I was wrong.
Don’t worry, the open source, privacy-first Proton Authenticator application has come to the rescue!
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Recently I adjusted my optimized Brave browser configuration to enable graphics acceleration when available. This resulted in random unresponsive episodes when using Brave.
This article serves as a reminder to disable the Use graphics acceleration when available option within my Brave browser, Firefox and Microsoft Edge for that matter.
Experimenting with the Proton Pass password manager service revealed that it has promise.
However, my initial attempt at importing passwords failed about half way. Then restarting the import resulted in duplication of most passwords since Proton Pass apparently has no way to detect duplicates.
Wanting to start over, I discovered that had to manually select each password even using their “Multiple select” option. Luckily I discovered a solution to remove all the passwords at once with a few clicks and one confirmation box.
This article covers how you can delete all your saved passwords within Proton Pass.
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This article covers my preferred method of configuration and optimization for the Brave Browser, a privacy focused internet browser application, on Windows.
This article will show you how to quickly and easily clear out your Open Network Stream history within the VLC Media Player on Windows as well as Ubuntu.
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In some Windows 11 Pro installation instances, which I won’t cover here to keep this article short, Windows 11 Pro will automatically enable BitLocker software based encryption on your solid state drive (SSD). Not sure if this auto-enabling occurs on traditional mechanical hard drives, let me know in the comments section.
The particular Windows 11 Pro installation on my Intel NUC 12 fell within the Microsoft threshold of auto-enabling the BitLocker software encryption. This was without my knowledge nor was I allowed to configure the encryption password or separately store the encryption key. My initial inspection leads me to believe that Microsoft simply uses your Microsoft Account password as the BitLocker encryption key but I have not confirmed this. Let me know in the comments section.
Also, when I originally setup my Windows 11 Pro installation, I used a local account instead of a Microsoft Account. I assume that when I accessed my Microsoft Account to connect my Microsoft 365 software (such as Word and OneDrive) Windows configured BitLocker at that time. I could be completely wrong, but the fact that BitLocker was enabled without my knowledge is a fact in my particular case.
This article will cover what I did in order to disable BitLocker software encryption on my SSD since I prefer daily maximum performance over the (in my opinion, false) sense of security provided by encrypting the data on my drive. Encrypting my data may also make data recovery more difficult should the need arise, but I may be incorrect there as well.
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There may be some situations when you want to restrict or redirect your website traffic by IP address. To accomplish this simply add the following lines of code to your website’s .htaccess file (assuming your website is on an Apache webserver):
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