Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: About every 3 weeks my audio does not work. I have Windows 11 after Microsoft upgraded me to 11. Now audio ...

This sample chapter, taken from Upgrading and Repairing Laptops, 2nd Edition, discusses how to fix some laptop and portable PC hardware problems. Troubleshooting laptop and portable PC hardware ...

You can run a report to check battery health in Windows 11. This report provides details on capacity, cycle counts, and more. If your battery is nearing the end of its life, it can be replaced. Have ...

[This article was originally published in September 2015. It has been extensively revised and updated since then. The most recent revision was August 29, 2016.] In June 2016, a month before the free ...

Troubleshooting computer problems could never have been easier. Windows 11/10 has some excellent in-built troubleshooting wizards that will help you resolve any problems your Windows PC may be facing.

We live and work in a cold, cruel world where our laptops can take a lot of abuse. Regardless of how gentle we try to be, our notebooks will probably be dropped, spilled upon or worse—sooner, if not ...

New Delhi, March 23 (IANS) More than 82 per cent of laptop distresses are hardware-related compared to just 18 per cent of software related, a new study said on Tuesday. According to a new white paper ...

Anyone who buys a Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 2 should go into it fully aware of the laptop’s shortcomings. The first and most important is that the base model, the one that gives it its attractive ...

The term “desktop replacement” is a bit out of fashion as a descriptor for laptops these days, if only because fewer people have desktop computers they’re trying to replace. But I struggle to think of ...