I assumed Windows’ default settings were harmless. It turns out, several quietly track more than you’d expect—but they’re easy to fix.

Windows and most applications save their configuration in the registry database — or registry, for short. Whenever you change a setting, this affects the corresponding value in the registry, but there ...

A new feature called Point-in-time Restore is coming to Microsoft PCs, and will be available to Windows 11 and Windows 10 users. It means that you’ll be able to turn back time to the state your PC was ...