Choose to set up Windows 10 or 11 with a local account, and you're required to select three security questions to answer if you ever get locked out. Those questions include the typical ones, such as ...

I havent been able to get any official/clear answers to these questions so Ill ask here. I didnt beta test or install yet so Im not sure what happens when you do. 1. What happens to your windows 7 key ...

I'm referring, of course, to the reports generated by the elves in ZDNet's analytics engine, who know exactly which posts you've been most interested in. In 2017, Microsoft hit the accelerator on ...

With Windows 10 no longer receiving support, it has become an easy target for hackers. That doesn't mean you have to upgrade immediately—here's how to protect yourself from attacks.

Password-recovery questions have been a part of Windows 10 for more than a year now, but you’ll never know they exist if you sign into your operating system using a Microsoft account. Use a local ...

Security questions—the annoying shared secrets used as a secondary form of authentication—have been around forever and are used by just about everyone to deal with users who forget their password.

In one of our earlier post, we talked about removing Security Questions from Windows. This post offers an alternative way of disabling the same via a PowerShell script. Update-AllUsersQA is a ...

For a long time, Windows 10 users have been relying on the generation-old OS for their day-to-day tasks. Even though Windows 11 came out back in 2025, the older OS, Windows 10, still remains the ...

Listen as Computerworld contributor Preston Gralla and Executive Editor Ken Mingis answer viewers' questions about the latest Windows 10 release. And check out Preston's column on how the coronavirus ...