One of the constant annoyances of Windows 11 are the reboots after installing updates. Sometimes a Windows PC even has to reboot several times in a row until it finally completes all the updates. But this should soon be a thing of the past, at least

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Update KB5034765 (fave.co/4c6lyV7), an important security update pushed as part of this month’s Patch Tuesday barrage, is turning into a nightmare for many Windows 11 users. It’s wreaking havoc on some Windows 11 machines that were previously working

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Microsoft is unexpectedly killing off its support for Android apps within Windows 11, although you’ll have a year to play games on your Windows tablet until support officially expires. But if you haven’t already installed support for Android apps, yo

What’s the simplest way to create AI art on your PC? An application called Fooocus. Although Stable Diffusion is often seen as the best way to create AI art on your PC, Fooocus offers a simple set-up experience, with rewarding depth for those who wis

After three years, it’s finally time to upgrade to Windows 11. With Windows 11, Microsoft shifted into productivity mode, and to this day Windows 11 still feels like the operating system for work, while Windows 10 still feels lively and fun. But Wind

Mobile World Congress (MWC) returned last month and hosted some of the world’s biggest tech brands. As ever, our team of intrepid editors hit the show floor to find the best gadgets. Although the trade show, held annually in Barcelona, is primarily f

If you’re in the market for a new laptop, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the literal hundreds of choices. And it seems like every laptop out there advertises a different set of ‘must-have features’ adding to the confusion. But the truth is, most of

In addition to closing security gaps, the monthly Windows updates are used in particular to solve errors and problems that have arisen in the meantime. In practice, however, it is not uncommon for the updates to cause new problems. There are many rea

Laptops are here to stay, despite a brief challenge from tablets to replace them, and they are thinner, faster and more impressive than ever. Picking one from a huge choice is an extremely difficult task though, especially when there are so many elem

Ransomware is nasty stuff. This type of malware encrypts files on your PC so that you can’t access them – unless you pay the attacker to unlock the data. In other words, your files are held hostage until you cough up the demanded ransom, unless you’r

Microsoft appears to have pushed the ability to upload documents, screenshots, and images to Windows 11’s Copilot AI assistant, allowing you to ask it to make sense of documents stored on your PC. Being able to ‘query’ a document is a subtly powerful

No operating system is without its merits, and that includes Windows 11, even as much as I complain about Microsoft’s latest operating system. Its handful of useful features continues to grow as time goes on, with more and more being teased for futur

AMD may have just launched the Ryzen 8000 series of mobile processors, but company executives confirmed that its next mobile processor, Strix Point, will make the leap to the next-generation Zen 5 architecture. The disclosure was made by Dr. Lisa Su,

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WordPad, a Windows rich editing app that has been a mainstay of the platform since Windows 95, is on its way out. Microsoft has marked it for deprecation, a death knell that signals that it will be removed in a future version. The change was made off

2023 was arguably the year of AI, but the influence of artificial intelligence is only set to grow in 2024 and just about everything has AI slapped on it now. Samsung is starting the year off strong with its flagship Galaxy S24 series smartphones and

The BSI report on the state of IT security in Germany presents alarming figures: in 2023, the Federal Office for Information Security registered an average of 68 new vulnerabilities in software products every day, resulting in almost 25,000 new vulne

The year has only just begun, but Samsung already has a contender for the biggest smartphone launch of the year. The Galaxy S24 series of flagship phones are here, and there are three handsets to choose from: the regular S24, S24+ and S24 Ultra. All

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For the first time in many years, you have a choice when buying a new Intel-based laptop: Intel’s 14th-gen Core Ultra (Meteor Lake) or its latest 14th-gen Core HX chip. Which should you buy, and why? We’ll talk about the differences between the two p

Google’s AI services are receiving boosts across the board, with AI image generation arriving in Google Bard, powered by a new Imagen 2 technology that Google promises is more lifelike (and weirdness-free) than ever. And just days after the Internet

Any files you have stored in OneDrive or other cloud services are probably organized by file and name so you know where they are. But in the workplace, all bets are off. A new OneDrive for the web UI feature helps solve that problem. OneDrive’s new f

Microsoft has scheduled a powerful feature to launch within Copilot: Copilot for OneDrive, which will allow you to query and ask about files stored in the Microsoft cloud. It’s a powerful tool, if only because it takes a surprising amount of horsepow

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Even supposedly straightforward tools such as Windows Explorer offer options that are not always recognizable at first glance. The search function, for example, not only finds files and folders. With additional search options, the result can be refin

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