Blaring security alerts that urge you to call a number or download a scanner are bogus, and you can shut them up easily.

You cannot, however, completely stop it on the Home or Pro editions of Windows. Windows 11 does its very best to force you to ...

The temperature of your CPU is one of those things you don't really think about unless something is wrong with your PC. When it's working, this tiny chip makes everything you do on your computer — ...

A decade old Secure Boot certificate reaches its sunset today leaving firmware checks in flux for older PCs and pending ...

Microsoft doesn't want customers to upgrade older PCs to Windows 11, but there are workarounds for all but the oldest devices. Here's what you can do. On Oct. 14, 2025, Microsoft officially ended ...

If your Windows PC's Secure Boot certificates are out of date, your system is vulnerable to malware like rootkits.

In early September 2026, Microsoft announced Project Zenith, an effort to provide developers with a ready-to-code, ...

The Fallen Emperor and Arc Frigate have me excited for the game's future.

There’s a new version of Windows in town. No, not Windows 12. I’m talking about the 2026 flavor of Windows 11, aka Windows 11 26H2. Microsoft has officially kicked off this new edition to the public ...

A stalled Windows Update can hold your entire PC hostage, no new files, no shutdown, sometimes not even a restart. Windows Update Problems rank among the most reported frustrations on Microsoft's own ...

So, I of course plugged in an RTX 5080 to see how the game runs with path tracing in a lap around Novigrad, and it isn't great. At 4K with everything enabled, including path tracing and hairworks, ...

This was supposed to be the year Microsoft fixed Windows 11. Back in March, Microsoft made an unusually blunt promise: Windows would become faster, more reliable, more consistent, and less eager to ...