If a Windows upgrade has ever gone sideways on you, you know how vague and unhelpful the error messages can be. Here are my go-to troubleshooting tricks when that happens.

If you need to troubleshoot Windows 10, improve system performance, or just want to clear up some disk space, clear your cache.

To find your graphics card: Look for a section called Display adapters and click the arrow next to it. You'll see your GPU listed there. If you want more details, right-click the GPU name and click ...

Sometimes when you plug a USB drive into your PC it doesn't show up. We're going to look at a few ways to fix that problem.

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Social media strategist Scott Kleinberg ...

The notorious “Blue Screen of Death” — or BSOD for short — is the biggest disaster that can befall a Windows user. The system shuts down with a cryptic error ...

Map and troubleshoot your USB ports with Microsoft USB View Your email has been sent After some deep investigation, Greg Shultz came across a Windows 7 compatible ...

Updates for newer Windows versions are often downloaded in the background and installed automatically on the next reboot. This is usually a good thing: The system remains up to date, security gaps are ...

I have a user who's machine is not pingable on our network, using computer hostname or associated IP. However, in troubleshooting this, I see that the IP the machine actually has does not resolve to ...