Running your desktop PC or a top laptop without activating Windows is not a good idea. You end up seeing an annoying watermark and pop-up messages to activate Windows, and you lose out on some ...

In December 2022, we published a short PSA, reminding users they could still activate Windows 11 and 10 with valid Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 keys. This practice dates back to 2015 when Microsoft ...

In yesterday's Beta build the Gamepad keyboard was disabled, but it has made a return here in the Canary channel with a new ...

You can install and run Windows 11 on a Mac, without having to overwrite the MacOS operating system, by installing Windows 11 into a virtual machine. Virtual machines are self-contained ...

Also, bear in mind that activation depends on what type of Windows 8.1/10/11 license for your device. If Windows 8.1/10/11 came pre-installed with the computer, then the device has an OEM license.

This post features solutions to fix BitLocker Waiting for Activation error on Windows devices. Bitlocker is a disk encryption feature in Windows devices that protects ...

There are a few keyboard shortcuts on Windows computers that nearly everyone knows: Ctrl + C to copy, Ctrl + V to paste, ...

In this guide, I will explain the steps you must follow to successfully install Windows 11 on a computer with insufficient storage space by using an external drive for temporary storage.

Now that October 2024 is firmly in the rearview, it’s clear that Windows 11 finally hit a milestone: 35% of the Windows ...

Microsoft has started testing AI-powered Notepad text rewriting and Paint image generation tools four decades after the two ...

The rewrite tool will generate three versions of your highlighted text at a time. In Paint, generative fill will let you add ...