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Windows 11 Moment 5 is the latest version of Windows 11, released on April’s Patch Tuesday. Moment 5 prepares for the update to Windows 11 version 24H2, which will be released later this year, and adds some new features intended to simplify and strea

Let me tell you a quick story. I like Johnston & Murphy shoes. I’ve been trying to get this pair for weeks, but since it seems a lot of other people like it too, it’s been out of stock in my very common shoe size. So I did a Google search to see if I

Passwords suck. If they’re easy to remember, they’re the simplest to guess. If they’re difficult to crack, they’re the hardest to recall. Even if you use the strongest passwords possible, they’re ineffective if they become known. Which is why I’ve st

Microsoft is pushing advertising into every possible corner of Windows 11 that it can find, and the Start menu is definitely not a safe space. We reported a few weeks ago that Windows Insider builds were showing “Promoted” applications once again. In

Microsoft is packing more and more advertising into its Windows operating system. In Windows 11, ads now even appear in the Start menu (though Microsoft calls ads for apps or Windows services “recommendations”)—see page 15—and you’ll see full-screen

If you’re in the market for a hard drive or SSD, act fast! Otherwise, you could be paying more than you’d like. According to Taiwan analyst company TrendForce, storage makers Western Digital and now Seagate have sent letters to customers warning them

After letting Windows apps like Paint and Photos languish, Microsoft has brought them back with a vengeance. And Windows Photos now has one of the better features you could ask for in any app: Generative Erase. I like features that don’t take a lot o

The Acer Aspire Go 15 is the latest affordable laptop in the Aspire family, offering a simple computing platform for users who don’t make major demands on their machine. While this lands it with an approachable $300 starting price, it also comes with

Logitech’s MX Brio webcam produces some startlingly good images, even though you’d expect this semi-premium 4K webcam—from industry icon Logitech, no less—to deliver. I’m less impressed with some of its other elements, however—namely the accompanying

Not everyone needs an antivirus plan with extra bells and whistles—sometimes a subscription covering the fundamentals is all you need. (Why pay for what you won’t use?) On paper, McAfee Total Protection fits that bill nicely. In addition to strong an

Our last look at Aomei Backupper’s imaging, file backup, and sync program was at version 6, and it was a tad buggy, but developing apace. Version 7 of Aomei Backupper Professional adds incredibly affordable Aomei Cloud online storage to mix, as well

Antivirus software is an essential piece of protection on any Windows PC. On an internet where malware is only becoming more and more profitable for organized crime, you don’t want to be without a good antivirus program. But there are a lot of myths

The Lenovo Yoga Book 9i (Gen 9) is a well-executed 2-in-1 laptop that delivers a beautiful dual-screen monitor experience on the go. After PC fans spent years watching Microsoft cancel devices like the Courier tablet and dual-screen Surface Neo PC, i

You may be asking yourself, “Logging in without any passwords, how’s that supposed to work?” After all, user names and passwords are so much a part of everyday life that it’s hard to imagine the world might work without them. Yes, you can log in with

SK Hynix is nothing if not creative with naming. Witness the previously reviewed scarab-shaped Beetle, and now the Tube T31. The Tube T31 is, in fact, a Type-A USB stick, aka a thumb or flash drive or “tube” if you will—at least in shape and design.

Good news, everyone: My bar mitzvah videos from the mid-1990s are now digitized for the ages. While I have no intention of actually watching them—oy, the embarrassment—I recently received the original tapes from my parents and felt like they were wor

Cloud or online storage is practical for many reasons: Provided you have an internet connection, you can access your data from anywhere, regardless of the end device. Synchronization ensures that content is always up to date wherever you are. Photos,

Although it was already possible in the past to use smartphones as a webcam on a Windows PC, this was cumbersome, not very stable, and hardly useful. Now Windows 11 has been updated to allow Android smartphones to be used as a webcam wirelessly via B

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. An ancient utility holds both secrets. When a grou

By now you’re probably on high alert every time you get an actual phone call from someone you don’t know. If it isn’t the usual “we’ve been trying to contact you about your car’s extended warranty” recording, then it’s probably someone from “Windows”