If you want to play the game, you'll need to play by the rules.

Thanks to the flexibility of Linux, it's possible to run the OS straight from a USB drive, but is that the right way to go? Let's take a look at the pros and cons.

As a good PC user, I run security software in Windows to protect my computer from malware that may pop up as I go about my ...

Mary is an associate editor covering technology, culture and everything in between. She recently graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she served as an editor at The ...

Normally, if you are unable to boot into Windows and cannot access your files, you can create a bootable drive and use the media to boot and repair your OS installation. Perhaps, not widely known by ...

A driver conflict is one of the most common reasons why the system restore fails. There are two parts to system restoration. First, it restores the files and saves the information into the registry.

After creating a USB boot to install Windows, users should check the USB boot's performance to see if it was created ...

Clean Boot is a troubleshooting technique used to start Windows with a basic, essential set of drivers and startup programs.

Boot Barn Holdings Inc. BOOT has upped its sales forecast for fiscal 2026. It now expects total sales between $2,197 million and $2,235 million, which suggests year-over-year growth of 15% to 17%. The ...

Remember when the prevailing wisdom of consumer tech was 'smaller is better'? And then it turned out there was such a thing as too small, as we kept losing our toasty-but-tiny-tech? Confronted with ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...