That video somehow made me feel a lot better about my past PC setups This is the oldest setup picture I have from 2009 with my then still pretty new semi-custom PC (it was technically a prebuilt since I was able to get a great deal on those through my dads work but I bought the ...
Today, it’s easy to know if you have a virus. Just open your computer’s antivirus software and view its latest report. Windows 10 has built-in virus protection called Windows Security. To find it, type “Windows Security” in your PC’s search bar. Click the shield icon on the left...
Have you ever had an intermittent issue with your PC that goes away every time you try to fix it? On this build, that's something to do with the Wi-Fi 6E adapter installed on the motherboard, which slows to a crawl every so often, but as soon as I try to look at settings, it...
Of course, the cheat would be to unplug one of the existing expansion cards (the dial-up modem was a good candidate), but that would remove a piece of hardware that the senior executive’s identical home PC was using. My solution was to use a little-known feature of Windows 95 known ...
released. Intel’s 6th- and 7th-gen parts hung around 85W, while its 8th-gen chips barely cracked 100W. The FX-9590 used the same AM3+ socket as much lower-end AMD CPUs at the time, too, despite requiring a flagship motherboard and dense liquid cooling setup to even function properly....
In short, Microsoft, in its pursuit of catering to both PC and tablet crowds, redesigned the Start menu from the ground up, and the final product was a Start screen rather than a menu. Ditching the Start button was a bad idea on its own, but Microsoft decided to shoot itself in the ...
One of the coolest new PC games of the year fell victim to its own popularity at launch. The setup is really cool—it's a survival MMO, with players riding giant walking machines across the desert, constantly fleeing the deadly burning sun. We really liked it. At least, when we could ...
and Internet connectivity. The Internet part of the program fell a bit flat, though: It ran through a terminal emulator cartridge that supported text only and then through a serial cable linked to an external dial-up modem–in other words, 1980s technology. Not exactly a portable setup ...
Libraries made it easier to group files together in Windows Explorer so you weren't as beholden to the old "My Documents" folder setup. And snapping windows to the sides of screens? Maybe the best productivity change Microsoft's made in the last 20 years. Some of what made Windows 7 ...
It's fun to occasionally look back at past trends and wonder what we were thinking (I was just thinking about how silly "planking" was the other day). With tech, there are plenty of trends, both good and bad, to consider in retrospect. What tech trend of the last few decades do you...