Microsoft Windows 11 operating system articles
Here are a couple of Windows tricks that I pretty much guarantee you don’t know about. Slide To Shutdown This trick creates a one-click option to quickly shut down the PC, and it’s achieved via an obscure file that’s been tucked away in the System32 […]
For months, I’ve been reading about a new Start menu in Windows 11 but hadn’t seen it in either of my Windows 11 systems… until now. The new Start menu was installed on one of my Windows 11 machines yesterday, and now I’m not sure
Both Windows 10 and Windows 11 include a “Reliability Monitor” feature that will present a system stability rating from 1 to 10, and also help diagnose problematic apps/processes. However, the Reliability Monitor is tucked away and not easy to locate… unless you know how. How
I am not a Microsoft basher by nature, but in all my years of working with Windows, I cannot recall a more infamous period. Why didn’t Microsoft stick with its statement that Windows 10 would be the last Windows operating system? Did we really need
Like it or loathe it, AI is permeating every aspect of the PC. Microsoft, Google, software developers, etc., are all pushing AI at every opportunity. But, the critical question here is… is AI truly ready for prime time? In my opinion, AI has been pushed
Microsoft recently ‘updated’ its lists of Windows 11 supported processors, but for Intel CPUs, the company chose to list CPU series as opposed to each processor, which is very confusing. For example, it lists the Celeron series being supported when in fact only one out
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Tech sites are at it again, posting ridiculous articles with sensationalist headlines announcing the shocking news that Windows 11 adoption has been underwhelming. These headlines are predicated solely on a report from Dell stating that 1 billion users are still on Windows 10; 500 million
I was having some problems with AMD Radeon Adrenalin settings on my Asus TUF Gaming A16 laptop and decided to roll back the GPU drivers. But before doing that, I needed to use Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) in safe mode to remove the current software.
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Normally, when an application becomes unresponsive and hangs, we’d need to bring up Task Manager, locate the process, and then end that task. However, in Windows 11, there is a setting that adds an “End task” option to the right-click context menu. Enable The End
With all the hoo-hah surrounding Windows 10’s end-of-support, the fact that Windows 11 23H2 reached its end-of-support date on November 11th has gone by pretty much unnoticed. So, this is a reminder that Windows 11 23H2 is no longer receiving security updates, and you need
If you’ve recently upgraded to Windows 11, I strongly suggest checking which apps are set to auto-start with Windows. How To Check Startup Apps There are several options to view and manage startup apps in Windows 11: Right-click in the Taskbar and select “Task Manager”,
Recently I experienced an issue with my Windows 11 installation whereby an update was stuck in one of those interminable loops… install/undoing changes/retry/install/undoing changes, on and on. I tried all the usual fixes, including resetting Windows Update components, renaming the SoftwareDistribution and catroot2 folders, etc.,
Microsoft has added a new feature to Windows 11 that has the ability to automatically repair a non-booting system. This new feature is called “Quick machine recovery” (QMR) and, while it’s available in all Insider builds, I believe the general release is still in the
I’ve been fixing PCs for more than 20 years, from Windows XP to Windows 11, and I can barely remember when Recovery Mode has actually recovered anything. In fact, it’s worse now than it ever was and even more difficult to invoke. Remember when you
