Windows 11 looks polished out of the box, but the default setup leaves performance, privacy and reliability on the table. I always run through the same focused checklist on every new machine so it ...

This process is called a clean install, which is ironic as there's nothing particularly clean about it: Microsoft has enshittified Windows Setup.

Windows 11 is getting an easy way to transfer files from your old computer during the initial setup. Here is how that feature works. Microsoft is ending Windows 10 support in less than three months, ...