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 ...

Every time I read a complaint from someone who's exasperated about something they encountered in Windows 11, I just shake my head and say, I tried to warn you. Two years ago, I wrote "Here's why ...

To keep OneDrive from launching automatically on startup, you can open the Task Manager, go to the Startup Apps tab, and ...

Microsoft’s Windows operating system has always had its share of annoyances. In the 1990s, one of the most popular websites for getting help with it was called ...

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 ...

Microsoft wants Windows 10 users to use their Microsoft Account. They don't have to. Credit: Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images Windows 11 has been out now for about two and a half years, but its ...

Anyone who's set up a new Windows PC knows you spend a good chunk of that process removing or disabling the things that make the operating system a pain. If it's not finding ways to make Windows 11 ...