To Microsoft’s credit, Windows 10 is more stable than previous versions of Windows. As with any operating system, however, things can still go wrong. Fortunately, Microsoft offers several tools that ...

Use built-in Windows tools like the Troubleshooter to fix common problems on your computer. You can check your memory with the Windows Memory Diagnostic tool to solve lagging issues. Tools like ...

Long before the Windows 10 Anniversary Update appeared, it was obvious that Microsoft was putting more energy and effort into its troubleshooting tools. These are readily available by typing “trouble” ...

Since the dawn of the Windows era, Safe Mode has been the ultimate troubleshooting tool. If you install a faulty program or device driver that causes your system to crash at startup, for example, Safe ...

[This article was originally published in September 2015. It has been extensively revised and updated since then. The most recent revision was August 29, 2016.] In June 2016, a month before the free ...

Saeed Wazir is a South Africa-based journalist with over 15 years of IT experience and a love for reading and writing. He joined Pocket-Lint after writing tech articles for Dot Esports and Screen Rant ...

Q: I tried using your MSConfig diagnostic tip from last week to speed up my computer and now nothing works. What do I do now? A: It appears many readers that were eager to make their computers run ...

When Microsoft created Windows 10, one of its primary design goals was to return a sense of normalcy to the GUI following the Windows 8 fiasco. For the most part, I think that Microsoft did a good job ...

Windows 10 comes with built-in personalization settings to help you customize the desktop and it provides plenty of options by default. However, if you want to get the most out of your desktop, we ...

Starting your computer in diagnostic mode allows you to see if there is a difference in startup time Slow computer performance can either be hardware or software related Whenever you make changes to ...