There are many reasons a Windows computer might crash, and the occasional lockup or blue screen is annoying but hard to avoid completely. However, if your computer crashes or freezes constantly, it ...

A blog post by Microsoft Germany is urging users still hanging onto Windows 7 to make the switch to Windows 10, warning that the older operating system is less secure, and harder and more expensive to ...

COMMENTARY--How strong is your imagination? Can you see a time when Microsoft will toss out the millions of lines of code in Windows and start over from scratch? Not me. And neither could my colleague ...

Windows only: WhoCrashed is a handy tool for performing crash dump analysis to isolate hardware, software, and driver problems. When Windows crashes it generates a fairly complex log file of what went ...

Microsoft outlined visions of a unified ecosystem for PCs, phones, tablets, TVs and Xbox at the Worldwide Partner Conference on Tuesday and according to one technology blog, it may consider dropping ...

Earlier this year "The Shadow Brokers" -- an entity claiming to have stolen hacking tools from the NSA then offering them for sale -- seemed to pack up shop, but the group has continued on. Today, it ...

If you spend any amount of time in home-lab communities or pursuing forums, you’ll notice a weird propensity to dump on ...

Gartner recommends that enterprises dump Windows 8.1 deployment plans, even if that means delays. According to Gartner analyst Steve Kleynhans, “It is likely that Windows 8.1 will suffer a similar ...

Yes, some third parties are still supporting Windows 7, but that doesn’t mean you have to stick with the status quo, no matter how tempting that may be. Why am I still writing about Windows 7? It’s ...

A default installation of Windows 11 includes dozens of Microsoft apps. Which ones are worth keeping, and which ones should you uninstall? This is my expert advice.