Normally, you need a Microsoft account to use Windows 11. You can bypass that — and more — with a freely available script utility.

Since then, you could still grab Paint 3D from the Microsoft Store if you wanted the app, but now the final curtain is being ...

Once you get the Windows 11 theme pack free download from the Microsoft Store, you can click on the three horizontal dots from the right of the Apply button and select Install on my devices. That way ...

Depending on how you do it, it can be a minor pain to get Windows 11 up and running on a computer that doesn't natively ...

Four quick ways to restore lost functionality and make the operating system less onerousWith just a few clicks, you can ...

Microsoft has integrated Windows Defender Anitvirus in Windows 11 or Windows 10, and while it is easy to turn off or disable Windows Defender, it is not possible to uninstall it. If you install ...

And Microsoft is waiting eagerly in the wings—at least where the desktop Windows market is concerned—to target Chrome’s 65% market share. In its push to drive Windows users to the Edge ...

Why the big change in downloads being used per hour? Microsoft and Asobo Studios ... then launching a Free Flight), you may lose controller input. Workaround: Restart the sim.

Microsoft has released a Windows Insider build of Windows 10 despite the impending end of support for many flavors of the operating system. Build 19045.5070 has been pushed to the Beta and Release ...

Users have just one year left of free support and security updates for Windows 10. Microsoft recommends that all Windows 10 users upgrade to Windows 11, or they will have to pay for security ...

Absent an unlikely Microsoft u-turn on Windows 11 hardware requirements, there is a nightmare scenario where hundreds of millions of users lose access to support. And that nightmare is slowly ...

If you want a rough idea of installation times, there’s a report from PC World which tested how long it takes to install Windows 11 24H2 on various laptops. While noting that Microsoft describes ...