Hamza is a certified Technical Support Engineer. A red X (red cross) overlay on a Desktop icon or in File Explorer usually means Windows can’t reach the item right now (broken shortcut target, cloud ...

Bluetooth is a technology for short-range data transmission that has become so ubiquitous in recent years that we can no longer imagine life without it. This makes it all the more annoying when ...

TL;DR: Windows 11's File Explorer remains slower than Windows 10 despite a fix that preloads the app at startup, doubling its RAM usage without significantly improving speed. The slower performance ...

Eleven years ago, Paul Lundy was dying a slow, workingman’s death under fluorescent light. For three decades, he had worked in facilities management — an honest trade that ground him down until, in ...

Laptops forever changed where and how we work, and as great as they are at giving us that freedom, it’s still incredibly useful to plug into a larger monitor (or two) when at my desk. As I get older ...

Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 10 in October. Many PCs with Windows 10 don't pass Microsoft's strict requirement check. It's possible to bypass this and install ...

With Microsoft officially ending support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, many users face a choice: upgrade to Windows 11 or risk using an OS that no longer receives vital security updates. If your ...

The Preview pane in Windows 11 File Explorer lets you quickly see file contents—like documents, images, and PDFs—without opening them. But after recent Windows 11 updates, many users have noticed that ...

If you have an iPhone running iOS 26, you may have noticed that it now reports the estimated time to finish charging to 80% on the lock screen. If you are not using a fast charger, though, it will not ...

With Windows 10 support sunsetted, Microsoft is enhancing Windows 11 at breakneck speed. Following multiple AI upgrades last week, Microsoft continues to expand the way you can interact with your ...