Items tagged with Windows 10
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Victor Awogbemila - Tue, Jul 15, 2025
Windows 10 will officially reach its end of support on October 14, 2025. If you are still on Windows 10 after October 14, unless you're using a specialized version with long-term support, you will no longer get security patches to protect...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jul 07, 2025
Windows 11 is now the most popular operating system on the desktop, according to the latest market share figures at Statcounter. It took the first week of July for Windows 11 to reach that point, after coming up just short of overtaking...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Jun 03, 2025
ASUS has a message for Windows 10 users and it's similar to the one Microsoft has been shouting from a mountaintop for the past several months (and longer): Your days are numbered. Or more precisely (and less ominously), "your computer's...
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Victor Awogbemila - Sun, Apr 06, 2025
Support for Windows 10 is ending on October 14 for consumers, and Microsoft won't be backing away from this deadline. Microsoft has reiterated that every Windows user with hardware that doesn't meet the minimum requirements of Windows 11...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Feb 03, 2025
It's been four years and four months since Microsoft released Windows 11 to the wild. In the time since, it hasn't exactly ingratiated itself with a majority of users, especially those who are still clinging to Windows 10, but it has been...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jan 20, 2025
We're just a few weeks into 2025, or as Microsoft recently called it, the "year of the Windows 11 PC refresh." The comment came in a blog post in which Microsoft made a pitch to rid yourself of your crusty old Windows 10 (or earlier)...
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Alan Velasco - Wed, Jan 08, 2025
Microsoft wants people and organizations to pick up a new PC in 2025, referring to it as “the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh.” To try and entice users to make the jump to its latest operating system, it’s highlighting the benefits...
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Alan Velasco - Thu, Dec 12, 2024
Apple users who venture outside the company’s ecosystem suffer from a less than stellar experience. Microsoft has worked over the years to make things a little easier for Windows PC users with iPhones. It provides the Phone Link app on PCs...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Nov 05, 2024
It's Election Day in the United States and, following mad dashes to the polling booths, it will take some time to determine the results. In the meantime, however, when it comes to two other popular candidates—Windows 11 and Windows 10—we...
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Ryan Whitwam - Mon, Jun 03, 2024
Microsoft has put an expiration date on Windows 10—in a mere 16 months, the aging OS will run out of support. That's a problem for Microsoft as the majority of Windows users are still on version 10. The company is apparently hoping to...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Dec 13, 2023
One of the telltale signs that your PC has become ill with a virus is an unexpected slowdown in performance. Various forms of malware can sometimes feast on your system's resources, whether it's a hidden cryptocurrency miner, keylogger, or...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Dec 06, 2023
If you're still rocking Windows 10, don't panic, fee-based security updates are not imminent. However, they are coming once Windows 10 officially reaches End of Life (EOL) status, which barring any reprieves will happen on October 14...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Oct 09, 2023
This month marks the two-year anniversary of Windows 11 and by the numbers, many of you reading this on a Windows PC are rocking Microsoft's latest-generation operating system. However, even more of you are running Windows 10. A lot more...
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Zak Killian - Fri, Mar 17, 2023
It's probably fair to say that a good number of PC enthusiasts have pirated a copy of Windows once upon a time. It's also probably fair to say that a certain number of folks have had the thought "I'll go legit and buy my Windows this...
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Aaron Klotz - Wed, Mar 15, 2023
Virtualization-based Security, as the name suggests, is a security system that uses the Windows hypervisor (Hyper-V) to virtualize sensitive portions of the Windows operating system against exploits and malware. One example of VBS is...
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Mark Tyson - Tue, Dec 27, 2022
It looks like there is now a solution for Windows users who have been seeing too much of the dreaded Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) recently. If you are a Windows 10 or Windows 11 user, and your system uses one of the popular modern Intel...
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Ryan Whitwam - Mon, Dec 19, 2022
Stop me if you've heard this one: Microsoft released a Windows update recently, and it's causing the dreaded blue screen of death (BSOD) on some systems. Yes, it's a story almost as old as Windows itself, but Microsoft says it's...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Sep 06, 2022
Windows 11 is gaining steam among gamers, or more specifically, is adding more Steam gamers to its ranks. That's according to Valve's latest Steam survey data, which contains a wealth of statistics for the digital distribution platform...
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Zak Killian - Tue, Jul 26, 2022
Two days ago, I was at my cousin's residence attempting to troubleshoot a Brother laser printer that would not work. The printer was duplicated several times in the Windows "Printers & Scanners" dialog, and troubleshooting had to go as far...
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Nathan Wasson - Tue, Jun 21, 2022
Shortly after Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, many tech companies announced that they would be suspending sales to the country. Among the companies that made these announcements were AMD, Intel, TSMC, NVIDIA, Apple, Cisco, Oracle...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Apr 13, 2022
We're roughly half way into April and you know what that means—it's time to patch Windows with this month's Patch Tuesday update (KB5012599 for Windows 10 and KB5012592 for Windows 11), which is doled out on the second Tuesday of every...
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Zak Killian - Thu, Mar 10, 2022
A pile of outlets have run a lot of benchmarks on the Steam Deck (we haven't gotten one yet). However, one of the big question marks surrounding the Steam Deck's gaming performance has been the effect, whether good or bad, of its choice of...
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