Windows Hello logins are borked for some users after latest update
Michael's previous bylines include Android Police, Digital Trends, Wired, Lifehacker, and How-To Geek, and he's covered events like CES and Mobile World Congress live.
Windows 11 will get a surprise feature update in April
Although Microsoft typically reserves major feature releases for the fall, April 2025 is a key month for the software giant because it marks the 50th anniversary of the company’s founding.
As Microsoft innovates, Apple stagnates
Under Steve Jobs’ out-of-the-box thinking and obsessive attention to the smallest details, it released what seemed an unending stream of beautifully designed products that changed the way the world uses technology: the Mac, iPhone, iPod and iPad.
Windows PowerToys: Your handy productivity toolbox
The controls are dead simple, and the app provides standard user or administrative access to Profiles, Default, System, and Applied variables in the Windows environment, as shown in Figure 7.
AI PCs — get the latest news and insights
He's covered technology for three decades and held senior editorial positions with Ziff Davis, Jupitermedia, Disney Publishing, McGraw-Hill and Advance Digital.
8 brilliant browser tab tricks for Windows power users
Chris was formerly the Editor-in-Chief of How-To Geek, where he racked up over a billion page views to helpful tips, useful troubleshooting guides, and informative editorials — with Windows always as his main focus.
Hands on with Microsoft’s Windows Recall: Not impressive yet
Chris was formerly the Editor-in-Chief of How-To Geek, where he racked up over a billion page views to helpful tips, useful troubleshooting guides, and informative editorials — with Windows always as his main focus.
Windows on Arm update could open the door to more gaming
“At a technical level, the virtual CPU used by x64 emulated applications through Prism will now have support for additional extensions to the x86 instruction set architecture,” Microsoft says.
Why I switched from Windows to Chromebook and haven’t looked back
ChromeOS works perfectly for me 99 percent of the time, but if you decide to follow suit and switch from Windows to Google’s operating system, there are some things you may miss — and I’d be remiss if I didn’t at least mention them.
Windows 11 market share grows, but Windows 10 still twice as popular
Slowly but surely, people are migrating to Windows 11, even as we recently passed the operating system’s three-year anniversary milestone.
5 ways to stop Windows Update from rebooting your PC
Chris was formerly the Editor-in-Chief of How-To Geek, where he racked up over a billion page views to helpful tips, useful troubleshooting guides, and informative editorials — with Windows always as his main focus.
Windows 11: A guide to the updates
The build also fixes a variety of bugs, including one in which Windows Local Administrator Password Solution’s Post Authentication Actions (PAAs) did not occur at the end of the grace period.
Microsoft unveils new AI-powered Windows 11 features for Copilot+ PC users
“Click to Do works by first understanding everything you’ve seen on your screen, then enabling useful shortcuts to actions that help you more quickly search, learn, edit, shop, or act on those items,” Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft’s corporate vice president and consumer chief marketing officer, explained in a pre-recorded press briefing ahead of the announcement.
Hardening Windows: How to protect your computer against attacks
The firewall, the automatically activated antivirus program, various security functions for protection against boot viruses and much more help to ensure that hackers and malware cannot simply hijack a Windows PC.
Parallels 20 turns Macs into cross platform DevOps powerhouses
Parallels, now owned by Corel Corporation, might have put a lot of effort into support for the AI wave, but the company has also delivered additional features that should improve the experience of running Windows on a Mac.
Want to use Windows 10 after Microsoft ends support? Meet 0Patch
In contrast to traditional patch methods, where full updates or service packs have to be installed, 0Patch relies on tiny, targeted code changes that are injected directly into the memory of the running process.
Why I’m waging a personal war against bloatware
I measured frames-per-second (fps) in the game benchmarks Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Metro Exodus and then again after removing the seven bloatware apps on my Razer Blade 14 (Ryzen 9 5900HX, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080).