PCs, for a long time, had a bloatware problem. The major PC manufacturers—Dell, Asus, Acer, and the like—had a bad habit of including "free trials" of software like Norton AntiVirus on new devices.

Among Windows experts, a clean install is a time-honored ritual, a way to wipe out accumulated cruft and restore an old PC to new life. You can find plenty of ...

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Reinstalling Windows 10 or 11 over itself is an easy and surprisingly effective way to fix all kinds of problems with the OS. Here’s how. Sometimes a Windows installation simply goes off the rails.

One key technique in the Windows repair playbook involves wiping out everything on the storage device (typically C:\) from which Windows boots and on which that OS resides. Prosaically enough, this ...

PCWorld explains multiple methods to upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11, including Windows Update, Installation Assistant, and bootable media creation. Upgrading matters as Windows 10 support ends ...

I just built my new, much faster than my old, computer. I spent about a week trying to get windows xp to install on it but was unable to because of a few issues which I think are all rooted in the ...