Ventoy, a third-party USB media creation tool, has made improvements to one of Windows 11's recommended system requirements.

A number of Windows settings can have meaningful impacts on well your PC runs and its productivity performance. Here are my ...

The images are known as shims, which were invented to extend Secure Boot to Linux devices and utility software. Using a ...

The first Windows Secure Boot expiration date is here for more than a billion PCs, with more to come - and even some Linux distros are affected. Is your PC ready?

People of a certain age sometimes like to reminisce about how software in the old days was somehow more responsive and more efficient on far less powerful hardware. Microsoft's approach was to take ...

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged two previously undocumented Windows variants of what was believed to be a Linux-only backdoor called SprySOCKS. "The Windows variants discovered are internally ...

Your PC might mistakenly detect external drives, removable media (USB devices or non-bootable discs), etc., as bootable devices and attempt to boot from them. In this case, remove or disconnect ...

Secure Boot has been part of the PC ecosystem since 2011, but 2023–2025 finally pushed it into the spotlight, and not in a way Microsoft, OEMs, or firmware vendors might have liked. What was once a ...

Can you really get a Windows PC running like new again? Using this free tool from Microsoft, you can get pretty close. Microsoft Windows has been with us for more than 40 years at this point. Over ...