Keeping Windows and macOS alive past their sell-by date

Some of the hints for older, unsupported OSes apply equally to both Mac and Windows. Both come with an assortment of bundled ...
How-To Geek on MSN

How to play old CD-ROM games on Windows again

You have it way easier these days, but back in the day, when you wanted to play a game on your PC, you had to take a similar ...
Computerworld

Using DISM to install Windows updates

Windows’ built-in Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) command, a.k.a. dism.exe, is something of a Swiss Army knife when it comes to working on Windows OS images. Among its many ...

This Windows registry hack can boost NVMe SSD performance by up to 80%, but there's a catch

One developer who successfully activated the feature in Windows 11 (version 25H2) is X user PurePlayerPC, who claims it works "pretty good" on his computer. He ...

Your Windows SSD could be faster, Microsoft’s new update reveals why

Windows 11 users can unlock higher NVMe SSD performance using a hidden Microsoft driver, if they’re willing to tweak. The ...

Windows on Arm had another good year

Windows on Arm had a good year. The gap between x86 and Arm Windows laptops is narrowing, and it’ll narrow further in 2026.

You can now try the Windows phone OS that Microsoft never released

A leaked build of Andromeda OS now lets users try the canceled Windows software originally meant for Surface Duo, offering a ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Secure Offline: A Hardware-Bound Cryptographic Framework for Software License Validation in Internet Constrained Educational Environments ()

The system employs HMAC-SHA256 (Hash-based Message Authentication Code using SHA-256) for license integrity verification. SHA-256 refers to the Secure Hash Algorithm producing 256-bit hash values (see ...