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First and foremost, I don't recommend doing this yourself. I created an isolated virtual machine and used a firewall to ...

Look at almost any mission-critical computer system in the world—servers, workstations, embedded computers, and many more—and ...

Deleting the WinSxS folder is unsafe. Learn what WinSxS does and how to clean it safely using Disk Cleanup, Storage Sense, and DISM to free real space in Windows 10 and 11.

A typosquatted domain impersonating the Microsoft Activation Scripts (MAS) tool was used to distribute malicious PowerShell ...

When you run wsreset.exe, if you receive an error message — Windows cannot find ms-windows-storePurgeCaches — then this post may help you. It happens because of ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

When Microsoft was first developing the Surface Duo, it was originally intended to run a Windows 10-based OS code-named Andromeda that looked a lot like Windows Phone. Of course, the company ended up ...

Download With the Installation Assistant If Windows 11 isn't appearing as an update on your PC, you can still install it through Microsoft’s Windows 11 Installation Assistant. Browse to the Download ...