Windows Update Fail Goes Up to 11

I’ll keep my outrage short. Windows Update gave me the terse message “this PC doesn’t currently meet Windows 11 system requirements.”

System Requirements for Windows 11

Not even a week after the Windows 11 announcement and Microsoft has backtracked and ‘clarified’ the system requirements for Windows 11. It didn’t help that Redmond released a compatibility checker tool, which it withdrew just days after its release.

How-to: Fix the Windows 10 Go-Slow After Updates (Part II)

In part one we ran through some of the built-in tools to diagnose and fix issues after Windows updates. What else can you do to fix the Windows 10 Go-Slow after updates?

The Desktop Share that isn’t Windows 10

With over 1 billion installations (according to Microsoft), Windows 10 is reckoned to be just under 75 percent of the Windows market (StatCounter). Which means there’s still 250 million or so Windows machines not running Windows 10. So what is the desktop share that isn’t Windows 10? And why?

How-to: Networking Primer Part III – Firewall

A firewall restricts unauthorised access to your system by intruders, blocking certain types of network traffic. Firewalls can be implemented in software  or in hardware. The hardware version is generally more secure than a software firewall installed alongside the operating system.

How-to: Understand ‘The Cloud’

“It’s in the Cloud…” The Cloud has become a go-to word in computing across all levels of users, even my septuagenarian neighbour, who doesn’t even own a computer.  Although she does have a smart phone and a smart TV. Trouble is ‘the Cloud’ is actually several types of cloud.