Setting up a new Windows laptop, or installing a fresh copy of Windows on a machine, is kind of a slog. While it doesn’t take multiple hours like it used to (thanks, SSDs!), it’s still a lot of time ...

I like Windows 11 a lot less than I liked Windows 10—and that was before it started advertising to me incessantly and filling up every nook and cranny of the experience with “AI” I neither wanted nor ...

As we've already explained, one of the key features Microsoft focused on for Windows 11 was security. That's why you need the TPM 2.0 chip. TPM performs hardware-based processes related to encryption.

In simple terms, CPU utilization is the current percentage of CPU resources consumed by all programs. If you notice that some programs are using more of your CPU cores and hogging system resources, ...

A decidedly mixed bag of improved features and unnecessary changes. Windows 11 will undoubtedly improve over time, but it’s a very polarizing upgrade that many users will want to forgo for now.

Use the Task Manager for quick RAM checks and the Resource Monitor for a detailed analysis to find out which applications are using the most memory. Adjust application priorities in Task Manager, use ...

Windows users often encounter high CPU usage due to some background processes, which can cause the system to slow down or become unresponsive. One such process responsible for this is the Windows ...

Microsoft is preparing to reintroduce Recall to Windows 11. A feature limited to Copilot+ PCs—a label that just a fraction of a fraction of Windows 11 systems even qualify for—Recall has been ...