Microsoft is quietly putting a one‑click internet speed check where most Windows users already look for connectivity, adding a “Perform speed test” / “Test internet speed” control to the Taskbar network menu and Wi‑Fi quick settings in recent Windows 11 preview builds.
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A clean, reliable MAC address changer can be a quietly powerful tool for troubleshooting, privacy and lab testing — but which one should you trust on Windows? The landscape ranges from tiny, no-frills utilities to professional-grade suites, and each has platform quirks, driver limitations, and...
If you manage servers, opening a port in the Windows Server firewall is one of those routine tasks that’s trivial to execute but easy to get wrong — and a single misconfiguration can expose services to the public internet. This feature explains the exact, supported ways to open ports in Windows...
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If you've faced issues with automatic updates on Windows 11, you're not alone. Many users encounter disruptions that hinder critical updates from successfully installing. Fortunately, Microsoft provides multiple methods to manually install updates, ensuring your device is always up-to-date with...
A couple of weeks ago I installed Windows 8 (fresh install from scratch, not an update) on my computer. I do a lot of web browsing and over the last couple of weeks I've been using Windows 8, I could swear the web browsing wasn't as fast at it used to be on Windows 7.
I then noticed I was...
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Hello all,
I've hooked up a Samsung Blu-Ray home theatre system to my home network via network cable to my modem/router. When I run the Network test on the Blu-Ray player it says the network is working fine but only picks up my Windows XP PC. It can't see my other two Windows 7 PC's. Both...
I have a difficult problem. I have tried several firewall softwares with W7. None of them (except own Windows Firewall) works correctly. Most serious problem is that if I run pcflank.com's quick test for firewall, test shows I have several ports visible and accessible from the internet! I have...