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Windows 10: The Gizmodo Review

Windows 10 defies review. It’s not a finished product. It will never be a finished product, if you believe Microsoft. Like Apple with Mac OS X, Microsoft has decided that the tenth version of their operating system will be the final one—it’ll just get updated, year after year. Only with Windows 10, even some already-announced…

Reviews Sean Hollister

The Ultimate Guide to Windows 10 Keyboard Shortcuts

If you want to give the impression that you’ve been using Windows 10 for years, learning a few keyboard shortcuts is the best way to go about it—you can navigate around the interface, get apps in position, trigger events, change settings and more with a couple of taps on your keyboard. Here are the shortcuts…

Reviews David Nield

Microsoft Forgot To Fix One Major Thing in Windows 10

There’s been exactly one thing keeping me from buying a Windows laptop for the last three years: Windows sucks at handling high-resolution displays in small laptops. To be clear, this is not some problem with how Windows handles big high-resolution displays — my 27” 2560×1440 screen at home is proof it does that just fine.…

Reviews Chris Mills

The Windows 7 Upgrade to Windows 10 Isn’t So Scary After All

Upgrading to Windows 10 from Windows 7 is not quite as seamless as the move from Windows 8.1, but it’s close. You get to keep your applications and settings, and the process is simple and leaves you almost no chance to accidentally delete all your apps and data. I liked Windows 7—so much that I…

Tech News Kiona Smith-Strickland

Windows 10 Meta Review: Download It, In A Month Or Two

You can now go get Windows 10 (if you registered for the update months ago, and if Microsoft has rolled it out to your PC yet). But should you? Let’s let the collective wisdom of the internet decide. Reviews of software like Windows have a habit of being polarizing. Some people love the new touch…

Reviews Chris Mills

Here’s The Incredibly Hacky Way to Disable Windows 10 Updates

Windows 10 auto-downloads and auto-installs updates. This is mostly a Good Thing for general security, but becomes a Bad Thing when said update installs a glitchy graphics driver that breaks your desktop. There is a way to disable auto-updates, but it’s not pretty. The solution comes in the form of a Windows troubleshooter package, basically…

Tech News Chris Mills

Windows 10, Day Five

The nice thing about reviewing Windows 10 on my own computers is that there’s nowhere to hide. When something goes wrong, I have to troubleshoot on the fly. I can’t say “Oh, I’ll just go back to my personal computer until I figure this out.” You know what’s not so nice? When you shoot the…

Reviews Sean Hollister

Settings Are Better in Windows 10, But That’s Not Saying Much

Computer settings in Windows 8 were a hot mess: they were split between PC Settings and Control Panel, two completely separate ways to change most settings, but with enough differences that you had to use both. Windows 10 makes things better, but I still wouldn’t give the engineers a gold star. The one big improvement…

Reviews Chris Mills

Windows 10, Days Three and Four

This weekend, I took Windows 10 to a LAN party. It was pretty great. Yes, I’m talking about a nerd fiesta where PC gamers link a whole bunch of computers together with network cables and switches so they can yell at each other while they play games. No, I’m not too old for that shit.…

Reviews Sean Hollister

Windows 10, Day Two

Two days ago, I promised to upgrade my personal desktop and laptop to Windows 10, to demonstrate how wonderful or terrible the migration from Windows 8 might be. Yesterday, I was surprised how painless it felt. Today, I’m feeling a little pain. https://gizmodo.com/windows-10-day-one-1719864054 It started off brilliantly. I spent most of my second day with…

Reviews Sean Hollister

Why the Hell Is Windows 10 Sharing My Wifi Passwords?

Look, Microsoft. Just because I am Facebook friends with someone, doesn’t mean I want to share my wifi passwords with them. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what happens by default in Windows 10. Anyone who I’m Outlook.com contacts with (spammers), Skype friends with (webcam strippers), or Facebook friends with (high school buddies turned webcam strippers) can connect…

Reviews Chris Mills

Windows 10, Day One

Last night, as promised, I installed Windows 10 on my own personal laptop. I left everything to chance. I didn’t back up my data. Hell, I set my Lenovo ThinkPad X240 on the floor of a pizza parlor in San Francisco—dongle and all—and let it install totally unattended. Then, I woke my precious laptop to…

Reviews Sean Hollister

Windows Search Doesn’t Suck Anymore

The first thing that everyone notices about Windows 10 is that the Start Menu is back. It’s a cool feature, but an irrelevant one. Thanks to the absurdly powerful new system-wide Search, you’re never going to need a Start Menu again. Search has been getting better and better with every version of Windows, but with…

Reviews Chris Mills

Windows 10 Is Hiding a Great Video Capture Tool

It’s not on the list of headline features, but the latest version of Windows is hiding a very welcome and well-executed feature: a video-capture tool baked right into the operating system. On previous versions of Windows, recording a video of your screen meant navigating the usual muddy creek of ad-infested freeware; the lack of integration…

Reviews Chris Mills

Why I’m Upgrading to Windows 10

One week from today, Windows 10 will arrive. I’m not going to wait. I’m putting it all on the line, starting today. Today, I’m upgrading my personal computers to Windows 10—a Lenovo ThinkPad X240 laptop, and a homebuilt desktop gaming PC. These are not machines provided by Gawker Media or review units from Microsoft, they’re…

Reviews Sean Hollister

Go Update Windows Right Now

Microsoft normally restricts its Windows updates to a monthly Patch Tuesday. So when the company pushes a critical update on a Monday, it’s a good sign that shit is hitting the fan. The security update applies to all versions of Windows since Vista, and fixes a rather gaping hole in the security: thanks to a…

Tech News Chris Mills

Windows 10 Will Kill The Installation DVD, Finally

If you’re one of those quaint people who still uses ‘physical media’ to install new versions of operating systems, Windows 10 could have a big shock in store for you: USB drives replacing the clunky old reinstallation DVDs of yore. The idea that Windows 10 would be shipped (mostly) on USB drives rather than traditional…

Tech News Chris Mills

Okay, So Maybe You Won’t Get Windows 10 on July 29th

Are you entitled to a free copy of Windows 10? There’s a flowchart for that. However, there’s no flowchart to tell you when you might actually get Microsoft’s new operating system. Officially, Windows 10 is coming July 29th, but not everyone will get it that day—now, says Microsoft, it will roll out in waves. The…

Tech News Sean Hollister

How To Get Apple Music For Windows PC

If you went looking for Apple Music yesterday on your Windows machine, you probably got a bit confused. Where was the download? Why couldn’t you find it in your iTunes? The answer is that you needed iTunes 12.2, which wasn’t available right away. Now, it is—for OS X, and for Windows PC. Just click on…

Tech News Sean Hollister

The Best Cheap Laptop Under $250

Buying a cheap laptop can feel like a gamble. You might get lucky and find a machine with a good keyboard that isn’t slower than a tortoise-snail crossbreed… or you might get saddled with a cheap piece of crap that cries when you load a browser or try to open WordPerfect because Word is just…

Tech News K.T. Bradford

Windows 10: The Gizmodo Review

The Ultimate Guide to Windows 10 Keyboard Shortcuts

Microsoft Forgot To Fix One Major Thing in Windows 10

The Windows 7 Upgrade to Windows 10 Isn’t So Scary After All

Windows 10 Meta Review: Download It, In A Month Or Two

Here’s The Incredibly Hacky Way to Disable Windows 10 Updates

Windows 10, Day Five

Settings Are Better in Windows 10, But That’s Not Saying Much

Windows 10, Days Three and Four

Windows 10, Day Two

Why the Hell Is Windows 10 Sharing My Wifi Passwords?

Windows 10, Day One

Windows Search Doesn’t Suck Anymore

Windows 10 Is Hiding a Great Video Capture Tool

Why I’m Upgrading to Windows 10

Go Update Windows Right Now

Windows 10 Will Kill The Installation DVD, Finally

Okay, So Maybe You Won’t Get Windows 10 on July 29th

How To Get Apple Music For Windows PC

The Best Cheap Laptop Under $250

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