Windows is no doubt a powerful operating system, and you can tweak system settings and add power user utilities to speed up ...

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As a digital minimalism lover, I do everything in my power to declutter Microsoft's Windows 11 operating system - here's how I strip away the noise.

After Microsoft rolled out its Linux subsystem for Windows 10, users worked out a number of surprising hacks. Here are some of our favorites A Linux subsystem in Windows? What sounded like an April ...

A fully patched Windows environment is harder to hack than it used to be -- and end-users remain the weakest security link I put the customer’s environment through its paces, and as expected, it was ...