To make sure your laptop speakers aren’t muted left click the speaker icon in the system tray. If the icon has an X next to ...

Muffled audio in Valorant really takes away your competitive edge. It gets tough to locate the enemies and communicate with your teammates. Fortunately, this common problem has a few surefire ...

Some Windows users are in a quandary. Since Windows 10 ceased to receive support from Oct. 14, the only way to avoid moving to Windows 11 (if the hardware allowed), was to sign up to Extended Security ...

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Every month, Statcounter publishes market share figures for the various Windows versions, but this month’s figures are something special. In September 2025, an ancient Windows version that hasn’t been ...

Microsoft has removed a safeguard hold that prevented some users from upgrading their systems to Windows 11 24H2 due to compatibility issues that were causing Bluetooth headsets and speakers to ...

Use the following solutions if you get no sound with the DisplayPort cable on your Windows 11/10 computer. Some of your monitor sound settings might be misconfigured, which is why you are experiencing ...

When updating a piece of software as large and complex and old as Windows, you’re inevitably going to break something every once in a while. Microsoft tracks known issues here—generally they affect ...

Editing multimedia content is challenging, especially when you’re not working with the right tools. As demand among news audiences shifts to video and audio, newsrooms, journalists and content ...