How to Get Windows 11 for Free (or Under $15)
When you’re planning a PC build — even one of the best PC builds — you’re probably working toward a budget. Perhaps […]
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Microsoft confirms that Windows 11 Recall AI is not optional — a glitch made it appear so in the Windows 11 24H2 KB5041865 update
Early this morning, Microsoft confirmed in a statement to The Verge that last week’s Windows 11 24H2 update, KB5041865, had not added […]
Windows preview build teases searching your audio and video content — ‘intelligent media search’ referenced in newest build
Windows 11 Insider Canary Channel build 27695 references a new “intelligent media search” function, which may come to Windows soon. The function […]
When and Why to Use Windows Advanced Startup
Whether you need to access your BIOS/UEFI, reset your PC, boot from an alternate drive, restore a system image or perform other […]
How to Fix Windows with a Repair Install
Whether you’re trying to fix a BSOD such as a IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL or a CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED error, serious Windows troubleshooting is like plunging down […]
How to Fix a DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE Error in Windows
In the family of Windows stop codes, DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE is intriguing. It is associated with stop code 0X9F in bugcodes.h and means some […]
How to Fix a Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
Its appearance is a cause for concern if not consternation. You might be in the middle of working on a project, reaching […]
Microsoft will axe the Paint 3D app soon — will be removed from the Microsoft Store in November, cementing classic Windows Paint’s revival
Paint 3D, which was once billed as the modernized replacement of the classic Microsoft Paint app, is ironically getting the axe just […]
Linux boot time reduced by 0.035 seconds thanks to a one-line kernel patch — aligning the slab in the ACPI code makes Linux boot faster
Linux systems already boot relatively fast, but it’s never fast enough. So, when Linux engineer Colin Ian King (via Phoronix) discovered that aligning […]
Windows Downdate exposes updated OS to old vulnerabilities — vulnerability allows undetectable downgrade attacks to undo security patches
Over the past year, SafeBreach researcher and former Brazilian jiu-jitsu athlete Anon Leviev has developed a proof-of-concept Windows Downdate tool. This tool […]