ONENOTE By Mary Branscombe If you’re still using OneNote for Windows 10, make sure all your notes are synced into OneDrive now; starting on October 14, 2025, the app will be read-only and will stop syncing. You will be able to see your old notes but not edit or add to them, so make sure […]

WINDOWS By Mary Branscombe There is a natural trade-off between saving power and keeping your screen on, especially when you want to think something through before you continue. Windows is very keen to save you power and keep your account secure by turning off the screen and locking your account when your PC has been […]

ISSUE 22.34 • 2025-08-25 SOFTWARE By Mary Branscombe Skype can no longer be your phone number, but you can still make calls and your Skype credit is safe — even though the experience is annoying Thanks to the popularity of Google Voice, WhatsApp, and Zoom, Microsoft announced back in February that it would be shutting […]

WINDOWS By Mary Branscombe Graphics drivers remain one of the common sources of instability on Windows PCs. If your screen is glitching or flickering, if it doesn’t seem to turn on when your PC does, if the frame rate in games is unusually low, or if your mouse cursor seems to be freezing up, try […]

HISTORY By Mary Branscombe The “universal” connector wasn’t really that universal. I’m “the girl with the USB earring.” It’s ideal for social engineering: the novelty of seeing me take it out of my ear has almost every executive I’ve ever interviewed ready to put it into their laptop. It’s been years since I plugged anything […]

WINDOWS By Mary Branscombe You shouldn’t be working routinely with system files. But if it’s ever necessary, here’s how to do so safely. Windows has a lot of critical and hidden files. Generally speaking, it’s a bad idea to mess with them. System files are, as the name suggests, a big part of your Windows […]