A hidden Windows registry tweak can unlock serious SSD speed gains—but one wrong move could leave your PC unbootable.

Microsoft didn’t release a major new version of Windows in 2025, but it did deliver a lot of significant updates. Here's my ...

Native NVMe support is an opt-in model, so enterprise users need to enable it via the registry. What some users have found ...

The big picture: Mark Russinovich developed Sysmon and other utilities in the Sysinternals suite to provide advanced monitoring and troubleshooting tools for system administrators. Russinovich now ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Hot on the heels of the NSA publishing a “high-risk of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. The latest warning from CISA, as part of Binding Operational ...

The Windows 11 25H2 update shouldn’t take very long to install, since its features were delivered in previous downloads. The Windows 11 25H2 update shouldn’t take very long to install, since its ...

Microsoft will remove PowerShell 2.0 from Windows starting in August, eight years after announcing its deprecation and keeping it around as an optional feature. The 14-year-old command processor ...

Even if you're perfectly content with Windows 10, updates will soon cost extra and you'll eventually need to switch to Windows 11. I compare the two operating systems so you know what to expect upon ...

Microsoft’s latest rollouts to Windows 11 24H2 and Windows Server 2025 include the arrival of Recall and hotpatching. Here are the security settings and recommendations to note. Windows 11 24H2 and ...

Microsoft has confirmed that it's blocking updates to Windows 11 24H2 through Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) after the April 2025 security updates: Devices which have installed the April ...