diagnostics

Safe Mode — the understated emergency exit for Windows 11 — remains the quickest, least-destructive route to diagnosing and repairing a system that refuses to behave, and understanding how to use it properly will save you hours of panic and potentially prevent a full reinstall. Background /...

Microsoft’s built‑in battery report in Windows 11 is one of those small, quietly powerful features you’ll wish you’d used sooner — a one‑minute, no‑install HTML diagnostic that turns “my battery feels weak” into measurable facts you can act on. The report (generated with a single command) lays...

If your laptop’s battery life has slipped from a reliable half‑day to a nervous hour-and-a-half, Windows 11 hides a free, fast diagnostic that can tell you whether the problem is software, settings, or simply a tired battery — and running it takes less than a minute. Background Windows includes...

The Windows Event Viewer is the single built‑in tool that will almost always be the fastest route from “my PC crashed” to “here’s what failed,” and yet it’s one of the most overlooked utilities on a typical Windows machine. The Event Viewer acts like a flight recorder for Windows—capturing...

The HP OMEN 25L GT15 listing that’s circulating on marketplace pages promises a high‑end, turnkey gaming desktop built around a 14th‑Gen Intel Core i7 and NVIDIA’s mid‑range Blackwell GPU — but the headline specs and the listing source require careful verification before anyone types a credit...

Microsoft’s official troubleshooting for a missing Bluetooth icon or a grayed‑out Bluetooth toggle in Windows is short and practical: start with the automated troubleshooter, confirm Windows isn’t blocking the radio (Airplane mode, hardware switch), update or reinstall the Bluetooth driver, and...

Glow 25.16 ships as a compact, portable system‑information and repair utility that leans into accessibility, tighter telemetry, and targeted repair workflows — the release adds new OS‑level fields (power plan and display/sleep timeouts), improved SFC/DISM automation, a System Identity Creation...

Microsoft’s AI team has formally declared a new ambition: build a controlled, auditable form of “superintelligence” that is explicitly designed to serve people — and it has put Mustafa Suleyman, the company’s AI chief, in charge of the effort. The MAI Superintelligence Team will pursue what...

If a recent Windows 11 update has left your laptop struggling to last a full workday, you’re not alone — but this is usually fixable without replacing the battery. The glow of a nearly empty battery icon at midday is often the visible symptom of one of three root causes: software power-policy...

Task Manager is not just an emergency exit for frozen programs — it’s a compact control room that can reveal what Windows is doing, where bottlenecks live, and how to nudge resources toward the apps you care about most. The modern Task Manager in Windows 11 (and recent Windows 10 builds) packs...

The shop floor is no longer a separate world of paper logs and two‑way radios; it’s a live, cloud‑connected workspace where alerts, videos, maintenance tickets, and work instructions arrive in the same pane of glass—often inside Microsoft Teams—giving frontline operators, maintenance crews, and...

Thirty years after it first shipped, Windows' Task Manager still does the one thing its creator set out to do: make the internals of the operating system visible and actionable — and, once in a while, cause a little chaos while doing it. The tool that began as an 85 KB, scrappy utility written...

Microsoft's public pivot into "humanist superintelligence" crystallizes a growing tectonic shift in corporate AI strategy: build systems that can outperform humans in narrow but high‑value domains — starting with medical diagnostics — while promising containment, auditability, and human control...

Few things are more infuriating than a Windows 11 PC that hangs in the middle of a task — but the freeze itself is only the symptom; the best response is a methodical mix of immediate recovery, rapid diagnosis, and longer‑term prevention. Background Windows 11 includes multiple built‑in recovery...

Infosys’ new AI Agent for energy operations is a purposeful step toward industrializing agentic AI across drilling, production and field operations — promising faster analysis of well logs, automated report generation, and predictive alerts while leaning on Infosys’ Topaz and Cobalt portfolios...

The Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) — and its modern cousins, the black crash screen and green crash screen in Insider builds — remains Windows’ blunt instrument for stopping the system when a critical kernel or hardware fault occurs, but most blue‑screen incidents on Windows 11 can be diagnosed and...

Microsoft’s official guidance on what Microsoft Edge collects, how that data is used, and where you can control those flows is clearer than it was a few years ago, but it still hides important trade‑offs and operational details that every Windows user and administrator should understand before...

If you value privacy on your PC, the single most important Windows 11 switch to flip is the Send optional diagnostic data toggle — and you should understand precisely what flipping it does, what it does not do, and the safe ways to reduce the diagnostic pipeline between your machine and...

If you value privacy on Windows, start by switching off the “Send optional diagnostic data” toggle — it’s the single easiest setting to reduce the amount of behavioral and usage data Windows 11 ships back to Microsoft, and it’s buried in Settings > Privacy & security > Diagnostics & feedback...

Windows’ built‑in telemetry — labeled “Diagnostics & feedback” in Settings — collects far more than crash reports by default, and every Windows user should understand what’s being sent, what they can realistically block, and the trade‑offs involved before they decide whether to turn it down or...