The PCWorld staff loves Microsoft’s PowerToys. These utilities supercharge Windows, adding functionality that simplifies getting stuff done. We’re always excited when new ones come down the pipeline, because the tools are so […]
If you want to say goodbye to Cortana one last time within Windows 11, don’t update the app. Microsoft began deprecating the Cortana app within the Windows Insider program just a short […]
2023 has been a bad year for Western Digital. Last spring, a major security breach occurred that locked customers out of their cloud-connected storage devices. Now the manufacturer is under fire for […]
Microsoft warned us last month that our favorite Windows upgrade loophole was over, but now it’s official: The activation servers no longer let you use Windows 7 or 8 license keys to […]
Microsoft may not plan on releasing any huge new feature updates for Windows 10, but that doesn’t mean it won’t necessarily receive new features from time to time. Among other things, Microsoft […]
Antivirus software is an essential piece of protection on any Windows PC. On an internet where malware is only becoming more and more profitable for organized crime, you don’t want to be […]
When Windows 10 launched, its new Settings app was slated to eventually take over for the Windows Control Panel—and yet that conglomeration of settings is still well alive and kicking. Talk of […]
Intel’s latest Arrow Lake processor for desktop PCs fuses its “Meteor Lake” and “Lunar Lake” architectures together, carrying over Meteor Lake’s NPU and Lunar Lake’s abandonment of hyperthreading. Yes, hyperthreading has been […]
F5 to copy, F6 to move, or F8 to delete: At the time, these were important shortcuts for quick file management in Norton Commander. The former standard tool among file managers is […]
