If a Windows upgrade has ever gone sideways on you, you know how vague and unhelpful the error messages can be. Here are my go-to troubleshooting tricks when that happens.

This year my laptop turns six–a relatively young age in the grand scheme of things. Sure, it’s gotten slower and the battery life has taken a hit, but since I don’t use it for advanced video editing ...

Open the Windows Run by pushing the Windows + R buttons. Now type the following command in: msdt.exe -id DeviceDiagnostic. Press Enter. At the menu click to Apply repairs automatically and click Next.

Nakobe Dean suffered a torn left patellar tendon in the Eagles’ wild-card win over the Packers, but has been rehabbing without a knee brace and is set for a return to the field months after predicting ...

Dear Annie: My husband and I recently went on an eight-day cruise to Iceland with two close friends. We have been friends for more than 40 years and have traveled together many times. Two days before ...

DEAR ABBY: I remarried several years after my first wife passed away. I thought they were different people, but they share one maddening trait. They refuse to use the phone! Of course they talk to the ...

My daughter “Karina” just entered first grade. Just last evening, I got a call from her teacher about her behavior. Karina reads well and is apparently well ahead of the rest of her class. I was asked ...

Digital Foundry has just dropped its tech review for new open-world zombie adventure Dying Light: The Beast, and the results are welcome ones for console players - despite them being fairly ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. When Windows decides that it isn't interested in completing an upgrade, it can be maddeningly unhelpful ...

How to Do It is Slate’s sex advice column. Have a question? Send it to Stoya and Rich here. It’s anonymous. Dear How to Do It, I am a 60-year-old man. I’ve met a wonderful woman my age who is smart, ...

The first open date is coming at a very good time for a Tulane football team with plenty of bumps and bruises, although the time off likely will not benefit redshirt sophomore linebacker Dickson Agu, ...

the window won't go away I have to exit the app and go back in and then its fine but it does it everytime ...