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Windows 10 has reached its official end of support, but millions of machines still run it — and that reality means users must take immediate, practical steps to lower their risk of being hacked. Microsoft ended mainstream security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, and while a...

The little white arrow on your Windows desktop is one of the most-used UI elements you never notice — until you do. Changing the mouse cursor is a low-friction personalization that instantly makes your PC feel more yours, and the process is simpler and safer than many hobbyist tweaks. This...

Turning off Windows Security on a modern PC is something that should trigger more caution than curiosity: for most people in 2026 it remains a risky move, useful only in very narrow, controlled scenarios and never as a casual performance tweak or "clean" troubleshooting shortcut. Background...

MIPC can be run on a Windows or macOS desktop, but the practical route for most users is not a native PC installer — it’s running the Android MIPC mobile client inside a vetted Android emulator (or using a vendor‑supplied native client when available), and that choice changes everything you need...

Microsoft has formally ended free support for Windows 10, and every user still running that OS needs to take immediate action to avoid growing security exposure: either enroll in the Windows 10 Consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) program or upgrade to a supported operating system—and for...

Microsoft's terse advisory for CVE-2025-62459 signals a presentation‑layer weakness in the Microsoft Defender portal that can be abused to spoof trusted UI elements, but public technical detail and reproduction proof remain scarce — administrators should treat the vendor’s MSRC entry as the...

Windows 11’s security, reliability and full feature set depend on one deceptively small thing: a genuine Windows 11 product key or a properly registered digital license. Without it you can still use the OS, but you’ll lose personalization, official support, and — more importantly — timely...

A fresh telemetry snapshot from remote‑support sessions underscores a stark reality: as Microsoft’s Windows 10 support deadline approaches, a large share of real‑world endpoints remain on an OS that will soon stop receiving routine security patches—creating an urgent migration and...

Windows Server 2019 administrators face a simple but urgent choice: rely only on built‑in protections or add a purpose‑built server antivirus to harden critical services and data. A recent roundup of “7 Best Antivirus for Windows Server 2019” names ESET, Bitdefender, Norton, Avast, VIPRE and...

If you launch the same commands every time you open a PowerShell session, a properly crafted PowerShell profile will save time, reduce repetitive errors, and make your shell feel tailored to the way you work. Background / Overview PowerShell’s profile is nothing more than a PowerShell script...

When a Windows Server hosts services for users or other systems, port visibility is one of the first and most essential things an administrator must master; knowing which ports are listening, which are established, and which are blocked by a firewall directly affects uptime, security posture...

A growing number of Microsoft account holders report successful sign‑ins from IP addresses inside Microsoft’s own network despite having two‑factor authentication enabled — an uptick of incidents first detailed in a German investigation and corroborated by threads on Reddit and Microsoft’s own...

A new, industrialized phishing service called VoidProxy is being used by multiple criminal groups to intercept Google and Microsoft sign-ins in real time, harvest credentials, MFA responses and — critically — session cookies that let attackers impersonate users without needing passwords or...

Microsoft’s latest push to make AI the fabric of the developer experience landed with bold claims and a mixed reception: a new Insiders Channel debut, a purported Visual Studio 2026/18.0 milestone that folds GitHub Copilot into the IDE in deeper, agentic ways, and a feature set tuned for speed...

CVE-2025-54091 — Windows Hyper‑V integer overflow / wraparound (local elevation of privilege) Summary (one‑line) An integer overflow or wraparound in a Windows Hyper‑V component can be triggered by an authorized local actor and may lead to local elevation of privilege (EoP) on the Hyper‑V host...

Microsoft’s Security Update Guide lists CVE-2025-54092 as a privilege‑escalation vulnerability in Windows Hyper‑V: the issue is described as a concurrent execution using a shared resource with improper synchronization (a race condition) that an authorized local attacker could leverage to elevate...

Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-53801: an untrusted pointer dereference in the Windows Desktop Window Manager (DWM) Core Library that can be triggered by an authorized local user to elevate privileges on affected systems. The flaw resides in DWM’s memory handling and, when...

I can write that in-depth, 2,000+ word feature — but I need to pull the full MSRC entry and other sources first (the MSRC page you linked is dynamically loaded and I can’t read the vulnerability details without fetching it). Do you want me to fetch the live MSRC entry and other public sources...

Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk Optix has a newly publicized vulnerability that demands immediate attention from OT and IT teams: a lack of URI sanitization in the product’s embedded MQTT broker allows remote loading of Mosquitto plugins and can lead to remote code execution (RCE), affecting...

User Account Control (UAC) in Windows 11 protects the system by requiring explicit permission for actions that need elevated privileges, but for experienced users and specific workflows its prompts can become an impediment — this feature article explains every supported way to silence UAC...