If a Windows upgrade has ever gone sideways on you, you know how vague and unhelpful the error messages can be. Here are my go-to troubleshooting tricks when that happens.

Office Licensing Diagnostic Tool is a command-line utility that allows system administrators to gather information about users’ problems with Office activation. After collecting all the log files, you ...

We have covered 3 freeware to help you download a particular version of Windows 11/10. For example, you will be able to download the ISO file for Windows 10 Anniversary Update version 1607, version ...

GetDeviceRemovedReason indicates that your game suddenly encountered a GPU driver hang or reset, which forces the game to ...

The second tool is called Cloud Rebuild, which makes it possible to reinstall Windows 11 from scratch via the cloud. In this ...

With Wine 10.19, support for these reparse point mechanisms has been implemented in key filesystem APIs: for example ...

This November Patch Tuesday update offers a much reduced set of updates, with only 63 Microsoft patches and (only) one ...

The announcement came at the end of Microsoft's November 2025 partner direct event. Making the full screen experience generally available could significantly streamline the process of ...

Microsoft really doesn't want customers to upgrade older PCs to Windows 11, but there are workarounds for all but the oldest devices. Now that Windows 10 support has officially ended, here's ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...