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Mobile devices like Windows 11 laptops use batteries for power. Keeping an eye on the remaining battery is essential to avoid unexpected system shutdowns due to a lack of power. Modern mobile devices support battery saving modes. These are designed to save battery while the device is idle or in use. Common tweaks include reducing…
Quick Machine Recovery is a relatively new feature of Windows 11 that promises speedier troubleshooting of system failures. Announced earlier this year, the feature has now landed in a recent Windows Insider test build of the Canary channel. What is Quick Machine Recovery? Microsoft describes it as an automated recovery feature that is designed to…
KeePass is one password manager that I’m using regularly on Windows machines for password-related activities. It is a well-designed app that runs locally, but you can extend it with all kinds of plugins and install compatible programs and apps for other operating systems. A new version of the password manager is now available. KeePass 2.59…
7-Zip is a popular cross-platform open source program to pack files and to unpack archives. It is a lightweight alternative to heavier archiving programs and the built-in Windows functionality, that is significantly slower in all benchmarks. 7-Zip 25.00 is now available. You can download the latest version from the official project website or from its…
Microsoft published several performance claims that it says demonstrate how much better its Windows 11 operating system is in this regard when compared to its predecessor Windows 10. Here are the claims that Microsoft is making: Impressive stats. If you dig deeper, you may notice that Microsoft skewed the results significantly by using Windows 10…
PicPick is an excellent screen capture program for Windows. It is free for personal use and you can support the developers by subscribing or buying a lifetime license. The personal version has a few limitations, mainly that you can’t use it commercially, that it does not support automatic updates, and that it may display ads…
Reports about problems to run Google Chrome on Windows started to emerge in early June 2025 on the official Chrome forum. Users claimed that they could not run the Google browser anymore on their Windows devices. Chrome would not start or close itself immediately after start; attempts to fix the issue, e.g., by uninstalling and…
Do you create backups of your email accounts? A popular solution for that is MailStore Home, which is free and cross-platform. The original founder of MailStore Home has created Vanderplanki, which serves the same purpose. Vanderplanki can backup email accounts so that you may read messages offline, search across accounts, and more. It lacked some…
When Microsoft released the April 2025 security updates for Windows, users and administrators started to notice that the update created an empty folder called inetpub on the Windows drive. Microsoft did not reveal any information about the mysterious folder in first place. This folder was linked to Internet Information Services in the past, but it…
It is easy to sort files in Windows’ File Explorer. Just activate one of the displayed column headers, e.g., type or size, and Windows will sort all files using the selected value. Select size and files will be displayed from largest to smallest. Click again, and the sort order is reversed. Did you know that…