A new PC Manager app from Microsoft is available in public beta, and it can free up memory on your PC and remove temporary files in one click.

You use a wizard-based application called Windows Setup to install and configure Windows 11. This process involves two phases, the first-boot experience, which is only used when you perform a so-called clean install of Windows 11, and the Out-of-Box Experience (OOBE), which is friendlier and more graphical and helps you configure the system for your…

Apple is planning to add a new Clean Energy Charging feature to iOS 16 later this fall.

I didn’t pay enough attention to the security announcements that came out of this week’s Windows 11 hybrid work event.

In this Programming Windows sidebar, I look back on the five Tablet PCs that I traveled with for seven weeks while I hosted the Microsoft Mobility Tour. Here’s the original article I wrote about this adventure, from May 2003, with some annotations. -- Five Tablet PCs, arrayed across the table from each other: a Toshiba…

HP today announced new generations of its Elite and Pro commercial desktop PCs, Z Workstation desktop PCs, and Presence AIO conferencing PC.

Users on Windows 10 version 2004 who are unable to use Reset This PC successfully now have a workaround that should set things right.

A month ago, we heard that Microsoft was rethinking its plans for Windows 10X. Today, Panos Panay confirmed that change.

I’ve spent the better part of the past ten days trying to implement some of the more difficult parts of Notepad and keep coming up short. But let’s move forward while I sort through that mess: This week, we’ll improve the scrollbars, clean up the status bar, and see what it looks like to publish…

Scanning over the thousands of articles we wrote this year, I've collected my picks for the top Windows and PC stories of 2018.

Over the weekend, I got the new Intel NUC up and running with the RAM and storage I previously purchased for the original unit.

https://youtu.be/1hNMry8Fu1U Back in October, I got my first taste of high-end computing with an AMD Threadripper rig that I thought was going to be my daily driver for a few weeks but the PC gods had other ideas. After the initial rig died on me and it was necessary to send it back for repairs,…

Readers routinely ask me whether it's still possible to clean install Windows 10 with an unused Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 product key.

SmartDeploy offers a simple and scalable image-based PC deployment solution for organizations of all sizes.

Originally conceived as a way to bring Android to emerging markets, Google's Android One efforts have floundered.

This morning, HP announced a new Surface Pro rival for businesses: The HP Pro x2 is a detachable PC that offers the flexibility of both tablet and laptop form factors.