Of all the optimizations and tweakable settings available natively within Windows 11, I find these three to be by far the ...

The Control Panel has been a part of Windows since Windows 1.0. However, as Windows 11 has reached more than half a billion devices, Microsoft is aiming to fine-tune the features in Windows 11 to ...

The first thing I do on any Windows 11 PC to boost performance is adjust the visual effects. These include features such as ...

As a journalist, most of my days are spent looking at my laptop’s screen. And nothing excites me more than a good trick to ...

What just happened? Microsoft this week released the Windows 11 Insider Preview builds 22631.2262 and 22621.2262 to the Beta Channel, introducing a plethora of changes that make the OS more intuitive.

Whether you use Windows 11 or 10 on your computer, you must change the execution policy to run a script with PowerShell. To ...

This is Windows 11 preview build 26058 which has just been deployed to testers in the Canary and Dev channels. In the usual lengthy blog post, Microsoft explains that the headline change comes on the ...

While Windows 11 provides a good enough out of the box experience—atrocious new taskbar aside—it handles so much better after tweaking just a handful of settings to make it feel more like the Windows ...

Microsoft has released an optional update for Windows 11 24H2 that brings some significant interface changes and bug fixes. The update KB5046740 is currently in preview. It brings changes to the ...

Editor's take: Microsoft has spent years trying to phase out the traditional Windows Control Panel. Since Windows 10, the company has pushed users toward a modernized settings interface, but the ...