One common question is whether or not you need to run your virus or malware scan in safe mode. The answer is that you don’t have to, but you really should do it every so often for multiple reasons. Let’s take a look at a few advantages to running your virus or malware scans in Windows safe mode.

Malware is Less Likely to be Active in Safe mode

So, you think you have a virus or malware. You start up your virus scanner only to find that it keeps getting hijacked and stopped by the virus or malware that is infecting your computer. By restarting your computer and then running the scan again in safe mode, the virus will be less likely to be able to interfere with the scan. Thus, your anti-virus software will have a better chance to remove any threats. read more

There may come the time in which you need or want to format a hard drive. In this guide, we take a look at how to do this in a few different situations. Before formatting your hard drive, it is important that you backup any files, docs, folders, etc that you wish to keep. When you go through the format process, it will completely clear your hard drive, thus clearing all files on the disk.

Formatting your hard drive could help you resolve issues that ordinarily cannot be fixed or repaired easily. For example, if you just can’t get rid of a virus, formatting will surely knock it out. I always like to consider this a last ditch effort after I have tried removing via my antivirus software. read more