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A computer file is a resource for storing information, which is available to a computer program and is usually based on some kind of durable storage. A file is "durable" in the sense that it remains available for other programs to use after the program that created it has finished executing. Computer files can be considered as the modern counterpart of paper documents which traditionally are kept in office and library files, and this is the source of the term.

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when you are recovering a computer it will ask you if u want to recover ur computer files or u could do it before recovering a computer by coping the files on a flash drive or cds


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Then you have more files on your computer, and less available space.


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To remove the error you should run a registry cleaner program on your computer. The registry of your computer contains the configuration and settings files and if there's a problem with the files it will cause an error on your computer. Registry cleaners will identify problematic files in the registry and help you repair or remove them.


What is the difference between saving a file on the computer than on the cloud?

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