Windows 11 looks polished out of the box, but the default setup leaves performance, privacy and reliability on the table. I ...

The standard Windows 11 does the job, but requires some customization out of the box to run at its best and become more user-friendly. I usually use apps like Winhawk or PowerToys to do this, and have ...

Ben Smith is a writer based in Los Angeles, California who has been covering consumer tech for at least five years. He's written thousands of articles for various sites about laptops, tablets, and ...

Windows is great, but it isn't exactly what you would call lean. It comes with a whole host of programs, features, and services that, best case, take up unnecessary space, or worst case, slow down ...

As familiar as Windows 10 is though, there will still be a period of adjustment while you check out new features and learn how to get the most out of them. Among best new features — which we listed ...

There are times when your Windows PC is plagued by annoying sounds that continuously bug you at your work. When random beeps start to appear, it becomes even more concerning. Considering that this ...

In the past few years, the Windows Start menu has been dangled in front of us and taken away more times than we can count, but it’s finally back—and it’s brought a lot of new tricks. For the first ...

The desktop in the Windows 8 beta offers no Start button and a few shortcuts. How can you easily populate it with your favorite programs? Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and ...

Windows 8.1 users can easily move and resize tiles, create and name groups of tiles, change the background image, and pin freshly installed apps on the Start screen. Lance Whitney is a freelance ...

Tweakers, rejoice! Windows 7 offers more customization options than any previous version of Windows–from total control over annoying pop-up system messages to homebrew “search connectors” that let you ...

This article will focus on how to customize Windows Server PowerShell profiles. If PowerShell is your daily tool, you may want to create and customize your profiles. PowerShell profiles are basically ...