Microsoft may be moving toward bringing back the Start button and allowing users to boot straight to the desktop with its coming Windows 8.1 release later this year. Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley has ...

One thing you might have noticed about Windows 8 is its new boot loader (i.e. the screen that appears shortly after you start your PC). It has a graphical interface, which is nice, but it’s not great ...

Photo: Microsoft One of the many notable new features in Windows 8 is how quickly it boots–it can start up in under 7 seconds, in fact. With such a short booting time, what will you get instead of a ...

Many things can be done while Windows boots. Some are trivial: toe nails clipped, coffee made, restroom runs ran. Other things I'm sure we couldn't talk about here. Let's just say plenty of cribs and ...

Microsoft yesterday promised that a feature it’s added to Windows 8 will put a stop to endless reboots. Unlike earlier versions, Windows 8 will automatically call up a new menu with repair and ...

This post will show you how to change Boot defaults when dual-booting using Advanced Startup Options in Windows 11/10. When you dual-boot Windows 11/10 with an earlier version of Windows like Windows ...

Upon booting up, Windows may offer you multiple operating systems from which to choose. This may occur because you previously used multiple operating systems or because of a mistake during an ...

What just happened? Judgment day for Windows 7 and 8 has finally arrived. While we've known this was coming for a while, Microsoft had a final surprise for Windows 7 users: anyone still needing ...