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In this guide, we'll get a closer look at the visual changes, improvements, and new settings available with the new Settings app for Windows 11.

Windows 11 contains some good ideas. But it also feels like Microsoft made some fundamental changes to Windows for no good reason.

Windows 11 reorganizes Windows, not to great effect. Several new features improve upon Windows 10, but technical limitations, feature delays, and some functional downgrades leave us thinking that it needs some more development time to be be truly useful.

AV-Comparatives has taken a look at how the new operating system will affect security for the average PC user.

Microsoft omogućava novu sigurnosnu funkciju u sistemu Windows 10 koja automatski blokira potencijalno neželjene aplikacije (potencially unwanted apps – PUA).

Firewalls on your computer do more than you think to protect your information. Heres how different programs work and what your computer might use.

" " Nobody wants to get hit by a ransonmware attack. There are ways to protect your computer system and files up front and save yourself and your business a lot of time and money. Alexander Ryumin/TASS/Getty Images Ransomware is a type of malware (its also known as ransom malware) that prevents a user from being able to access their computer system or personal files until a ransom payment is made, most often by cryptocurrency or credit card, in order to unblock the locked system and regai...

By the end of this book, you'll have developed a full understanding of the processes and tools involved in securing and hardening your Windows environment. Free download offer ends on May 26.

May 19, 2021 11:36 EDT with 0 comments Visualize your current and past network activity by traffic type, application, and geographic location, on an easy to use graph. GlassWire lets you see what applications are sending out data over the Internet and shows you what hosts they are communicating with. The program also looks for; domains or IP addresses that are known threats, networking system file changes, unusual application changes, ARP spoofing and more. GlassWire shows you wha...

The Windows Security console also collects together various features that were previously scattered throughout the Settings app. These include Secure boot, which can defeat rootkits by preventing the BIOS from running startup code that doesn’t have the right cryptographic signature, and Windows Hello, which replaces your password with biometric authentication. Windows’ built-in parental controls are managed from here, too, as is the integrated firewall. With all this built right into the OS...