PowerToys is a collection of power user utilities that should come standard with Windows 11 at this point. Here are some of ...

Reinstalling Windows is disruptive. Run these built-in Command Prompt repairs in the right order to fix disk, system files, ...

Personally, I’m a staunch member of the Proxmox faction and wouldn’t trade it for anything else. But after falling down the ...

As a journalist, most of my days are spent looking at my laptop’s screen. And nothing excites me more than a good trick to ...

In the Services Manager, some users have seen the “Failed to read description, Error Code: 15100” error message in the description of McpManagementService. In ...

Microsoft is blocking another way to choose a local account in Windows 11. You'd force a local account by disconnecting from the network. The block is currently in place in the latest Windows 11 ...

You can create Hyper-V VMs in Windows 11 using a built-in Windows app or a new developer-oriented tool. Both come with gotchas. Here’s how it all works. Though it may seem that virtual machines, a.k.a ...

Microsoft has released a custom WinPE recovery tool to find and remove the faulty CrowdStrike update that crashed an estimated 8.5 million Windows devices on Friday. On Friday, CrowdStrike pushed out ...

A CrowdStrike update that caused thousands of computers and servers to infinitely reset and "blue screen of death" finally has a solution, and it involves deleting (part of) System32. Yes, really, ...

A faulty CrowdStrike update can be fixed by several reboots or by booting into Safe Mode. A faulty CrowdStrike update can be fixed by several reboots or by booting into Safe Mode. is a senior editor ...

The Windows system consists of thousands of files. Many of them have strange names, others have extensions that most users have never seen before. Normally you do not need to worry about these files.

Do you struggle to remember passwords to your online accounts? While password managers could help, Windows 11’s 22H2 build gets support for passkeys, which lets you ditch passwords in favor of a ...