It may take some extra considerations to swap hardware in custom setups. Here's some issues I recently ran into. As we entered 2024, one of my big priorities has been to refresh the IT hardware that I ...

Is the F5 key not working correctly on your Windows 11/10 PC? The F5 key is typically used to refresh your desktop or Explorer or reload a web page. However, some of our readers reported that the F5 ...

Facepalm: Do you know what 2025 is? It's the "Year of the Windows 11 PC refresh," at least according to Microsoft. With Windows 10's end-of-support date around nine months away, the Redmond firm is ...

Safe Mode lets Windows start with only essential drivers and services, allowing you to troubleshoot crashes, faulty drivers, ...

"But it's also the case that many users of older, incompatible PCs could benefit a lot from an upgrade at this point." I can't think of any reason why this is more so the case at this point in time ...

I only run Windows in VMs hosted on either my System76 workstation (7 years old Intel Core I7-8700) or my Proxmox cluster (Atom CPUs). Both of those are "old" hardware that happens to be running ...