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With the end of support for Windows 7 coming in January, many users are looking to update to Windows 10 to continue getting security updates and support from Microsoft. According to a Tuesday report from security firm Trustwave, attackers are well aware of this and are targeting Microsoft users with fake Windows update emails that …

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Using an iPhone or iPad ($170 at Amazon) with a Windows PC as your main computer has always been a tricky setup. You’re forced to accept that you’ll miss out on Apple services such as iMessage and won’t be able to easily sync photos between your computer and iPhone, like through AirDrop. If you pay for extra iCloud storage and rely …

Now that you know how to copy an iPhone photo album to your PC, let’s look at another important process: converting those photos to a more common format. As you may recall, with the release of iOS 11, Apple switched over to HEIF technology from the long-standard JPEG. That means any photos (those taken after installing iOS 11, anyway) copied …

It was a pretty typical weekend project: My daughter’s graduation party was coming up, so I wanted to put together a photo slideshow. Of course, like most parents, my wife and I had years’ worth of photos trapped on our iPhones. How could we quickly and easily move them to a laptop and into a slideshow-builder? It proved a surprisingly …

Now playing: Watch this: Upgrade your Windows 10 PC with an SSD and be happier… 3:03 Editors’ note: This is a regularly updated article. Traditional hard drives will be here for long time thanks to their large storage space and affordability. However, there is no question that solid-state drives (SSDs) will be the future of storage. Most new computers now …

Now playing: Watch this: Change these Windows 10 settings for a better experience 2:13 Did you upgrade your PC to Windows 10? If so, ever wonder what happened to the previous version of the OS? It probably disappeared into the mists of Windows past, right? Wrong. Your old OS didn’t get erased; rather, it’s lingering in a system folder called, …

We showed you how to change your Windows 10 log-in screen to a solid color — but what if you don’t want to see the login screen at all? Because Windows 10, like Windows 8, asks you to sign in with a Microsoft account, skipping the log-in screen isn’t as simple as simply deleting your password. Instead, you’ll need to …

Taking a screenshot is nothing new. The feature has been available across numerous platforms and devices for well over a decade. How to actually take a screenshot, however, remains one of the most frequently asked questions. Whether you’re running Windows XP or the brand-new Windows 10 operating system, these are all the ways you can take a screenshot: Take a …