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You should know how to recover your Windows account. Do you?

September 26, 2025
Have you ever thought about what you’d do if you ever forgot or lost your Windows password? (That is, besides cursing fate.) In the old days, you could usually get back into the PC through other methods. The process could be time-consuming, but it usually worked. But now you could end up stuck. Why? Most people use a Microsoft account to log into Windows. You can’t circumvent this login…
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I ditched my laptop for a mini PC and couldn’t be happier

September 24, 2025
Sometime after my social feeds started to fill up with ads for mini-PCs, I realized that there’s a silent revolution going on in desktop PCs. Welcome to the era of the mini-PC, where you can do all your computing from a PC smaller than a box of Pop-Tarts and much cheaper…
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Tiny new YTX motherboard format trims the fat, adds M.2 slots

September 24, 2025
Motherboards come in various standard sizes, but for most of us, the choice boils down to ATX, micro-ATX, and mini-ITX, from largest to smallest. But that’s mostly variations on how many PCIE cards it can hold. There’s now a new standard that swaps a few things around, assuming you only want a graphics card and maybe fewer RAM DIMMs, traded for more M.2 storage options. It’s called…
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Firm predicts wildly optimistic view of 2025 PC gaming, then an exodus

September 22, 2025
The gaming PC ecosystem should benefit greatly from the forced transition to Windows 11, an analyst firm wrote Friday, with a 35 percent increase in hardware sales alone during 2025. But there are clouds on the horizon: Over the next five years, millions will leave PC gaming entirely. Jon Peddie Research, which has followed the PC graphics market for decades, issued the incredibly optimistic…
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Google brings Gemini and AI mode deeper into Chrome

September 19, 2025
Google is tying Gemini and Chrome closer together, allowing Gemini broader access to your Chrome tabs while quietly turning the address bar into an entry point for its AI Mode. Eventually, it’ll add agentic browsing to Chrome as well. The latter point is likely what Google…
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How (and why) to boot Windows 11 from a USB flash drive

September 18, 2025
Every Windows PC usually starts from the built-in hard drive, as the term “Windows PC” implies. This is because the Microsoft operating system is not anchored in or with the hardware, but is installed on your storage device. However, given the right environment, the computer can also be started in other ways: from CD/DVD, via the network and from external data carriers such as USB flash…
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