ZDNET's key takeaways 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 ...

Fast Startup can also prevent you from shutting down your PC. If the system fails to power off and instead sends you back to the login screen, chances are Fast Startup is to blame. Conversely, it may ...

Millions of users have either upgraded to or purchased new PCs that come with Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system. The operating system is the best Microsoft has offered in a while, mixing things ...

Microsoft Security Essentials detected potential threats that might compromise your private or damage your computer. Your access to these items may be suspended until you take an action. Click 'show ...

The Free Windows 10 Upgrade Offer wrapped up in 2016, but upgrades to the operating system continue. Windows 10 upgrade problems persist too. Some of these Windows 10 upgrade problems are widespread.

Windows Phone 8.1 is the follow up to Windows Phone 8, which rolled out to devices rather quickly. Despite it’s strengths, Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 platform is not without its flaws. In this ...

With such a complex mix of different devices and software out there, occasional problems with our smartphones are inevitable, but there’s usually a way around them. We’ve been digging into some ...

A free update Windows 10 might be, but it's giving some people - me included - a massive headache. So far I've updated two laptops, a tablet and my main desktop to the stable release of Windows 10.

Picked up by the eagle-eyed WinCentral, Microsoft’s long-awaited fix for Windows 10’s File Explorer issues (KB4532695) is now causing a wide array of new problems itself, including broken audio, slow ...

Half of Windows 10 users surveyed by consumer group Which? said they had experienced PC problems as a result of the operating system upgrade, with software and hardware compatibility problems topping ...

[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 ...

Windows Problems Stopper is a rogue anti-spyware program from the Rogue.FakeVimes family. This program is classified as a rogue as it displays false information in order to trick you into purchasing ...