Troubleshooting a Windows PC can oftentimes be quite a bore—and depending on your specific issue, it can either be pretty ...

If after enabling the Guest account or creating a new user account or an old account maybe after a recent Windows update on your Windows 11 or Windows 10 system ...

Windows upgrades used to be something you only had to worry about every few years. But in the Windows 10 era, each twice-yearly feature update is essentially a full upgrade. When an upgrade or feature ...

Windows Update uses Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) to generate diagnostic logs in Windows 11/10, and save them in the .etl file format. The reason why this has been done is that it reduces disk space ...

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Having a hard time with Windows gobbling up your hard drive? You’ll be interested to learn Microsoft has known about the problem for more than two years and done nothing about it. There’s a manual fix ...

Microsoft recently added a passwordless sign-in option to Microsoft accounts for consumer-level Windows users, including anyone using Windows 10 Home edition and, soon, Windows 11 home edition. Prior ...

Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...

If you like to be able to step away from your computer while your desktop and programs load, but don't want to enable the autologin feature, this script will begin loading your desktop when the login ...

Whether your computer runs Windows, macOS, or Chrome OS, you have options for how you log in. And your choice doesn't only affect how convenient it is for you to get into your laptop or desktop; it ...

Free unofficial patches are available for a new Windows zero-day flaw dubbed EventLogCrasher that lets attackers remotely crash the Event Log service on devices within the same Windows domain. This ...