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Microsoft’s AI team has published the Copilot Usage Report 2025 — a large-scale, first-of-its-kind look at how people actually use Copilot in the wild — and the headline is unmistakable: health queries top the list, and people are increasingly treating chatbots as companions for personal advice...

My wife is a very heavy user of Chrome, but seems to be pushing it to the limits of its abilities. My question is what are the limits? Can I have 200 tabs open? Her machine is a 13th generation Intel i7. I increased her memory from 32GB to 64GB. Windows 11 Pro, current version. She usually has...

My laptop, with Windows 10 Home, is a Lenovo Ideapad 510S. I have run a PC Health Check and it says I cannot upgrade to Windows 11 but does not say whether I can do anything about it: I hope that I can, could anyone advise me on this please? I am told that support for Windows 10 finishes next...

I am trying to help out an elderly friend who has forgotten his login pin on his win 11 laptop, we have tried everything he can remember but all to no avail. I could do with some advice on how to rectify this. Many thanks Brian

My trackpad broke. Need help!

Quick rundown, I purchased this pre built PC about 3 years ago, since getting it I have been getting this problem (and a few others) to where it will blue screen and give me that error. I have tried to do everything that I can find online as for updates and fixes. I also recently tried to read...

Hello everyone, I'm considering the idea of overclocking an Link Removed processor and was wondering if anyone here has any experience with this. My main question is whether it's actually worth it in terms of performance gains versus potential risks like increased heat, power consumption, or...

When I reinstalled os (factory reset win10), it loaded this mess again into my pc, which I don't want. I did manage to "uninstall" it, but the remnants are still there. I'm especially bothered by the confusion of the normal desktop with this one, which is in the c:\users\name\OneDrive\Desktop...

Good morning. I would appreciate help/advice with the following. I have recently bought a new laptop with Windows 11 and set it up correctly or so I believe. My old laptop is using Windows 10 and when I start it I am usually asked for my BIOS password. However, since setting up my new laptop...

Hi all. After loging in on computer, my desktop background was black with icons all around... also got several files opened which wasn't done by me and nobody used my laptop... I assume what it is, but can just somebody confirm please and advise further steps. Thanks

I have a PC that is around 7 years old, running Windows 10 Pro 64bit 22H2. Ever since Windows 11 came out, Windows Update has been saying my PC doesn't meet the requirements for Windows 11. I looked into it a while back and decided it was my processor that was the problem, so I had resigned...

Hello again; my 2nd post on this Forum. I have a new Gateway convertible notebook. It came with W11 already installed. Everything is working great at this time, but I'm wondering if things go south, is it possible to install W10 on this device? Thanks in advance for your advice. Ed

I have an HTML file of favorites exported from a Windows 11 laptop. I cannot find a way to "import" these favorites to my Windows 10 Laptop. (I had to start from scratch because of extreme corruption.) Any advice will be appreciated. Regards, Jim

hi, i hv search lotsa places on how could we disable this Windows 10 Defender periodic auto-scan. found an article online saying we could do that by disabling them in the Task Schedule - Microsoft - Windows - Windows Defender - Windows Defender Schedule Scan - Disabled, but it is not working and...

Hi not sure if this is the right forum for my query... I have a refurbished Surface Pro from Microsoft which I received as exchange for my original Surface Pro which stopped charging. I cloned the original one to my new machine but it is running very slow. Not sure if this is definitely due to...

I am attempting to install TurboTax2021 on my Dell XPS8900 SSD drive. I first tried to install from the CD and then from the downloaded software which TurboTax suggested I download, and both times I get a message saying "The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package...

Hello everyone , I was just curious on what kind of issues do you have in windows 10, where you would love to see a step by step process of ? let me know cheers

Is there any way to completely remove this browser from Win10? With some custom uninstaller from MS or something like that? In Settings the uninstall option is greyed out, see sshot1. It won't even reinstall, see second screen: Has anyone had a similar experience with this? Thx for any advice Peter

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This is probably a very stupid question, but I really need help with this. Are there students here? How do I find the special characters I need for the correct citation format in my essay in Microsoft Office 10? Help me figure this out. Perhaps I chose the wrong text format style, I'm using the...