If your company is lax about archival backups, consider my inspiration for writing this week's column: I recently assisted with a case that's been going on for two years. The case involves an ...

When my computer starts up slowly, I generally default to some common fixes, like disabling startup programs, clearing temporary/junk files, or restarting the computer. Sometimes it improves; other ...

When an unexpected problem occurs in a Windows environment, the first step in resolving that problem is usually to gather information. After all, you need to know what happened before you can fix it.

One WMI failure loop explained hours of random high usage.