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.”

Ditch the Cleaners in Windows 10

Still getting ads in email and social media for PC ‘cleaner’ software? Truth is, you don’t need them. It’s time to ditch the cleaners in Windows 10.

Eight ‘Features’ Removed from Windows 11

In the Windows 11 update merry-go-round, there’s a major cull of features familiar in Windows 10. Some are user interface (UI) changes, some are disappearing apps. Here’s eight ‘Features’ removed from Windows 11.

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: Windows 10 Optional Features

As if Windows wasn’t fat enough already, there’s a long list of Windows 10 Optional Features available to ‘extend’ Windows functionality. Those speech marks around ‘extend’ are there because some of the ‘optional’ features are downright essential to running other software and services.

A number of these run from ‘essential’ to ‘completely useless’ to ‘under no circumstances.’ At least you have a choice…

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?