It seems like there’s a new local zero-day exploit that grants admin privileges on Windows almost every day, and today is no exception. A researcher publically disclosed a vulnerability that lets anyone with standard privileg…
“These new Fluent style emoji being released in Windows 11 today feel personal and familiar, two of our Windows 11 design principles,” Microsoft said in a blog post.
If the hardware devices in your Windows 11 PC—such as USB controllers, video cards, printers, or other peripherals—need new or updated drivers, it’s usually easy to install them. We’ll show you how….
Got a PNG image file you need to convert to PDF? If so, use Windows 10 or 11’s built-in PDF printer to make a PDF out of your PNG images. We’ll show you how to do that on your PC.
If you’re a fan of vintage Windows screensavers and would like to relive the glory days of Windows 95, 98, 2000, ME, or XP, it’s easy to install a pack of vintage Microsoft screensavers for free. Here’s how to do it….
If you have ever connected to a Wi-Fi network from your Windows 11 PC, your PC has saved that network’s password. You can view these saved Wi-Fi passwords using multiple ways, and we’ll show you how.
Do you have a preferred printer that you use to print most of your documents? If so, make that printer the default so all your apps use it for printing by default. We’ll show you how to do that on Windows 10 and 11….
Whenever there’s a significant OS launch, there will be problems. Windows 11 was no exception, and Microsoft is currently dealing with plenty of issues. One issue some users have complained about in Windows 11 is performance,…
If you’re running a lot of different processes at the same time, you may forget which ones are running with escalated (admin) privileges. You can use Task Manager in Windows 11 to quickly find out.
Microsoft pushed out a new version of its Whiteboard application based on WebView in September 2021, and it wasn’t exactly greeted with love and admiration by users. Fortunately, Microsoft heard the complaints and has decided…
Wake-on-LAN (WoL) is an old-school technique that network administrators have used for years to remotely turn on PCs on the same network without sidling up to them. You can use it at home, too. Here’s how….
Apple Notes syncs between devices for anyone with an Apple ID, which is required to use devices like the iPhone, iPad, and Mac computers. Unfortunately, there’s no native app for Windows or Android users, but the web version …
Microsoft has just announced a new Windows 11 Insider Preview build for the Dev channel. Version 22504 is not the most exciting update, but it does bring a keyboard shortcut to the new taskbar mute button….
When you open an application on Windows 11, it opens with standard permissions by default. If you find yourself constantly opening an app as an admin, you can skip those extra steps by making it always open with admin rights….
It’s official: the Windows 10 November 2021 update, codenamed 21H2, has arrived. And while it doesn’t bring very much in the way of new features, some people can still download it to your Windows 10 PC right now….
With Windows 11, Microsoft realized that significant updates every six months are too frequent, so the company switched to annual updates. The company is officially switching to the same update schedule for Windows 10, so you…
If you’d like to use alternative DNS servers with your Windows 11 machine—perhaps to speed up browsing with a free DNS service, enhance privacy, or simply use something better than what you ISP provides—it’s fairly easy t…
By default, your Windows 11 PC doesn’t tell you when an update requires a reboot to finish installing. If you’d like to be notified about such updates so you can restart your PC and finish the update, you can enable an option…
Microsoft has made a lot of changes in Windows 11, and a lot of them make sense. One that made almost no sense, though, was changing the blue screen of death (BSOD) to black. Thankfully, Microsoft is changing it back to blue,…
Do you frequently open a specific folder on your Windows 11 PC? If so, assign the folder a keyboard shortcut to open it in a flash next time. We’ll show you how to give your folders custom keyboard shortcuts in Windows 11….
Windows 11 lets you choose your default browser, but it takes a lot of clicks and Microsoft sometimes forces you to use Edge, anyway. Firefox had a workaround, but Microsoft calls it “improper” and will soon block it….
It’s finally possible to run Android apps on Windows PCs. But why bother? If you’re skeptical about Android apps in Windows 11, we’ll explain why you should give it a try.
In Windows 11, when you link your Microsoft account with your PC, the Photos app automatically shows the images from your OneDrive storage. If you’d like to hide these OneDrive images in Photos, you can. We’ll show you how….
If you’re starting up your Windows 11 PC in a meeting or in a calm area, you probably won’t want that startup sound to play. Luckily, you can disable the startup sound in Windows 11. Here’s how.
After announcing Windows 11 SE, Microsoft released some documentation describing the OS. It was discovered that there’s no going back once you remove Windows 11 SE and replace it with Windows 11.
