More than half of PCs can’t upgrade to Windows 11 — report
Data released today by IT asset management platform provider Lansweeper indicates that upgrades to Windows 11 have almost tripled over the past three months, but the...
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What to do about IE and .NET?
It looks as if Internet Explorer (IE) will soon be gone from our PCs and .NET 4.5.2, 4.6 and 4.6.1 will drop out of support...
12 classic but essential (and free!) utilities for Windows 10 and 11
Mod your system with these easy-to-install utilities for Windows 10 and 11 to make your machine faster and easier to use. Many of the programs...
No, Microsoft, don’t require an account to set up Windows 11
Dear Microsoft — we need to talk. Recently, you pushed out a new preview version of Windows 11 and snuck in a major change that...
The Windows 11 feedback loop — what do users want most?
In addition to complaining about the hardware requirements for Windows 11, users who offer community feedback about the OS mainly want two things: a Taskbar...
Workarounds for 4 tasks Windows 11 makes harder
Microsoft has certainly made some improvements in Windows 11, but some of the changes will take some getting used to. We are creatures of habit,...
Research shows Windows updates can take six hours to complete
Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story said some devices need up to eight hours of time connected to the internet to update; the...
The Windows 11 ‘push,’ revisited
In November, I wrote about several people who reported they’d been pushed Windows 11. (At the time, I wasn’t sure why they found themselves with...
Research shows Windows updates can take eight hours to complete
Windows devices that aren’t connected to the Internet for up to eight hours at a time are “very unlikely” to successfully update fully and properly,...
The basics of patching and repairing balky Windows PCs
When you have a Windows computer and have to deal with Microsoft patches, hard drives that die, and hard drives that should be updated to...