Microsoft has expanded its diagnostic data collection with Windows 10, making mandatory what had been a voluntary telemetry program. Windows 10 includes a telemetry and diagnostics service that cannot ...

An officially confirmed vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Support Diagnostic Tool can allow hackers to run remote code and take over a targeted Windows computer. Known as CVE-2022-30190 in ...

If you’re encountering a “screen of death,” in blue or black variety, it’s safe to say that something’s gone wrong. It could be any number of issues, but on the chance that there’s something wrong ...

As mentioned earlier, App Diagnostics extract information about apps running on your computer to make them work better on your computer. But Microsoft is selective about the kind of information they ...

With an underlying memory problem remedied in this way, the hope is that your system will be more reliable going forward. But if you don't want to be waiting for a scan to complete on your next PC ...

Earlier this week, hints of new privacy tools were spotted in recent Windows 10 Insider builds, pointing to a bid to be more transparent with the types of data Microsoft collects. Now, Microsoft has ...

Microsoft’s and its partners’ engineers use the telemetry data from Windows 10 to diagnose crashes, learn about its users hardware configurations and more. It’s on by default and while Microsoft tells ...

Microsoft says it doesn’t keep track of your viewing and listening habits, but rather how well those video and audio files play on your device. Still, as the list shows, Microsoft keeps quite a bit of ...

Microsoft on Wednesday announced the "general availability" commercial release of "Windows diagnostic data processor configuration," a possible data privacy or data compliance assurance capability for ...

Here are the steps to review, manage, and delete diagnostic data that Microsoft collected about your device with new settings included with the Windows 10 April 2018 Update. When you purchase through ...

An application that had acceptable performance running on the .NET Framework 4.7 or earlier versions executes more slowly when running on the .NET Framework 4.7.1. Applications typically rely on ...

Smith Micro's CheckIt Diagnostics gives you an A-to-Z look at your system's components, but not much assistance for the problems the program reports. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace ...