Troubleshooting a Windows PC can oftentimes be quite a bore—and depending on your specific issue, it can either be pretty ...

Keep these tools handy for ironing out install issues, diagnosing application crashes, probing process activity, slaying resource hogs, and curing other Windows ills. Last month I compiled a list of ...

Is a clean install your go-to for stubborn Windows issues? Think again. There are ample recovery options right at your ...

Saeed Wazir is a South Africa-based journalist with over 15 years of IT experience and a love for reading and writing. He joined Pocket-Lint after writing tech articles for Dot Esports and Screen Rant ...

No matter how much experience you have with Microsoft’s Windows, it can still be improved by turning to software and tools that can make the operating system that much better. Take Windows 11, for ...

Q: I tried using your MSConfig diagnostic tip from last week to speed up my computer and now nothing works. What do I do now? A: It appears many readers that were eager to make their computers run ...

[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 has always come equipped with troubleshooting and diagnostic tools, but in Windows 7 Microsoft has done something it should have done a long time ago and put them all together in one place in ...

They say you can tell a lot about a person by the tools they bring to the job. If you’re a professional plumber or a carpenter, people will expect you to carry the right tools for the task at hand.

These seven handy tools help you diagnose and cure a wide range of Windows ills, and they're all free for the downloading. No computer runs perfectly forever. Somewhere along the line, something will ...

Q: I tried using your MSConfig diagnostic tip from last week to speed up my computer and now nothing works. What do I do now? A: It appears many readers that were eager to make their computers run ...

Starting your computer in diagnostic mode allows you to see if there is a difference in startup time Slow computer performance can either be hardware or software related Whenever you make changes to ...