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CNET spoke with Google's Sameer Samat and Qualcomm's Alex Katouzian about why they're combining a phone and laptop OS and how they'll do it.

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If you want to turn off the laptop screen when using an external monitor, you can follow this guide. It is possible to switch off the laptop screen and keep using the external monitor, no matter how ...

PageFile is a system file that Windows uses when it runs out of physical RAM or whenever it wants to store something temporary and needs RAM for something else. That said, you can always change the ...

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