Making a Windows 10 PC run at top speed rarely involves rocket science. If your PC is running slower today than it did yesterday, there's usually a good reason. If your battery life isn't what it used ...

Windows releases have become pretty stable in recent years. The Windows 11 upgrade process is safe and simple, and if something goes wrong, rolling back to a previous version is easy. It's uncommon ...

In Windows 11 23H2 and beyond, Microsoft is deprecating Windows 10-style troubleshooters in favor of a new architecture. But never fear: assisted troubleshooting is alive and well. Released in late ...

My Windows 11 laptop is mostly stable, but it occasionally encounters problems when I install new hardware or apps with compatibility issues. It can also become slow when running too many apps ...

Windows error codes are the bane of the existence of many Windows users. Generally displayed as seemingly random alphanumeric sequences, they help identify and ...

If your Windows 11/10 PC or Laptop won’t start up or boot or the computer has power but won’t turn on, here are a few possible solutions you may want to try. There are mainly two scenarios. First, ...

Download Windows ISO Create a Bootable USB or DVD drive Boot from the media and choose “Repair your computer.” Under Advanced troubleshooting, choose Startup Repair If you cannot boot into Windows ...

Windows updates can seem stuck, but they may be running especially slow — if yours is truly stuck, there are ways to troubleshoot. Beware of interfering with an update too soon; if you stop an update ...

Many Windows users occasionally encounter issues with their computers, such as misbehaving apps, strange glitches, or even more severe problems that prevent the system from starting correctly. In such ...

The notorious “Blue Screen of Death” — or BSOD for short — is the biggest disaster that can befall a Windows user. The system shuts down with a cryptic error ...

I frequently get email from frustrated readers needing tech help. Occasionally their dilemmas are interesting enough to cover here in Hassle-Free Tech (see “Reader Q&A: Gmail Without Web Access, Too ...

Saeed Wazir is a South Africa-based journalist with over 15 years of IT experience and a love for reading and writing. He joined Pocket-Lint after writing tech articles for Dot Esports and Screen Rant ...