The Awful Landfill Truth of Windows 11
It’s no secret that Microsoft is trying to get more folks to upgrade to Windows 11. After all, in just over a year, Microsoft will discontinue support of Windows 10. Should you upgrade? Yes. That is… if you’re eligible to...
Cheat the Blue Screen? Yes… yes you can!
We’ve all been there. The famous (and dreaded) Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). It seems to only come around when you are in the middle of something important. Blue Screens are not only frustrating… they can be disruptive to an...
The one thing that can boost your security…
I’ll just come right out and say it. You can ignore the rest of this article by just reading the next paragraph. Turn on Multifactor Authentication (🔐 MFA) everywhere. Everywhere. If nowhere else, turn it on at your email account,...
Windows 11 to have smaller, more frequent updates.
I know performing updates can be a chore. Microsoft knows this, too. A recent update to Windows 11 (version 24H2) should make updates a bit easier to manage. How? Well, instead of having one big update once a month, Microsoft...
Microsoft Co-Pilot and Proofreading
After I had wrapped up a big project with a colleague, he sent me an email summarizing things… but that email contradicted our prior discussions. It didn’t take long to realize that he used some form AI to write that...
Have Windows 11? Update to 23H2!
This is borderline ridiculous. Microsoft, in its infinite wisdom, has decided that it will stop security updates soon on all earlier versions of Windows 11. The bottom line: Microsoft has set a deadline for you to update to “Windows 11,...
Cyber Extortion… and Why it’s Targeting YOUR Small Business.
Cyber extortion is one of those things that we think will never happen, especially to businesses with five or fewer employees. Why would cyber criminals even care? Simple: small business defenses are so weak that it’s almost comical. Facts: small...
The 90’s Called… They Want Their Slow PC back…
The average Windows 11 startup time is 64 seconds. If you have an upgraded solid-state drive (SSD), that number could be 20ish seconds. But what if you’re not getting those numbers? Do you use that boot-up time to get a...
Google Says Sorry for Briefly Making Passwords Vanish
Google Chrome takes up over 52% of the web browser market share. That is an estimated 3.45 BILLION users. For a small handful of those… approximately 15 million users… passwords stored in the Google Chrome password manager vanished. You’d almost...
That Chome Extension… is it Malware?
Whether you know about them or not, most Chrome users have something called “extensions” installed. I know this because it’s something we tend to cleanup when we’re servicing both Macs and PCs. Chrome extensions are kind of like addon software...
