Automating screen brightness on Windows based on time of day or battery level saves your eyes and extends battery life.

Passwords must be complex and as long as possible so that hackers have no chance of cracking them in a short span of time. However, complicated passwords are easy to forget. Anyone who doesn’t ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

Like other web browsers, Google Chrome features a cache that stores files such as images, scripts and video content from websites that you visit over time. Having these cached images and files in ...

Over time, your Windows system can accumulate numerous old and useless device drivers, which can occupy significant disk space and potentially slow down your system. Removing these drivers is ...

I recently borrowed a Windows laptop from a friend. When I booted up the system, there was a system update. That’s fine because it’s Windows; the update took two hours and 45 minutes to complete. Once ...

One thing that always annoys me about Windows is that I never really feel like I know how long my laptop battery has before it runs out — and, conversely, how long it will be before it’s fully charged ...

The Royal ransomware group has targeted more than 350 global victims since September 2022, demanding hundreds of millions in ransom payments, according to a new report from the US Cybersecurity and ...

Get technical details about how this new attack campaign is delivered via Microsoft Teams and how to protect your company from this loader malware. Image: James Thew/Adobe Stock A new report from ...

A bug has been identified in the Nirsoft MultiMonitor tool that prevents certain user setups from being able to properly restore both monitors, usually what will happen is only one of the two will be ...

In this post, we will show you how to use ShellExView to view & disable Shell Extensions on a Windows 11/10 PC. Shell Extensions are COM objects that extend the capabilities of Windows Shell (Explorer ...

Good things come in small sizes, they say! And that is how freeware NirSoft utilities are! And things have got even better now for NirSoft fans! You can now launch all of them from a central console!