Both Windows 11 and Windows 10 are full of advertisements and other Microsoft-provided messages that pop up seemingly everywhere and can get in the way of your day-to-day routines. And then there are ...

Microsoft's default settings for Windows are designed to be helpful to the average person, but that's exactly what makes the defaults so unusable for most people. Because not one of us is average, and ...

Windows updates can be like dentist appointments for some people — you know they're important, but on the other hand, you're going to do everything to put them off, or get out of it altogether.

In this post, we will show you how to effectively and completely block, stop, disable, and turn off Windows Update in Windows 11/10 so that you can install it when you want to. You will need to ...

The notifications at the bottom right of the Windows desktop screen can be practical. If you’re waiting for an important e-mail, for example, you don’t need to keep opening the mail program to look ...

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