As it promised, Microsoft has stopped issuing updates for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users whose PCs run Intel’s seventh-generation processors (codename Kaby Lake), AMD’s seventh-generation processors ...

Microsoft has made good on its plans to stop all support for Ryzen and Kaby Lake owners running any OS but Windows 10. Going forward, using one of these chips in Windows 7 or 8.1 will prevent you from ...

Windows updates can seem stuck, but they may be running especially slow — if yours is truly stuck, there are ways to troubleshoot. Beware of interfering with an update too soon; if you stop an update ...

In addition to closing security gaps, the monthly Windows updates are used in particular to solve errors and problems that have arisen in the meantime. In practice, however, it is not uncommon for the ...