5 ways to kill a Windows process Task Manager refuses to end
You click End task in Task Manager. The process sits there, doing nothing, refusing to die. The application is hung, the request to close never lands, and Task Manager looks broken. It…
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Where Windows 11 hides its per-event sound picker dialog
Windows 11 is louder than most people want it to be. The default event sounds are fine for a fresh install, and they get old fast. There is also a wider problem…
Why Windows says a file is in use when nothing is open
You know you closed the file. You saved, you hit the X, you watched the app go away. Then you try to rename or move that file and Windows tells you something…
Fixing Windows Cross Device Service CPU usage on Windows 11
A laptop I set up for a relative started spinning its fan the moment the screen unlocked. Task Manager showed a process called Microsoft Cross Device Service sitting at 30 to 40…
Beats Studio Pro at $170: the deal, the spec sheet, the trade-offs
A pair of over-ear headphones at $170 that originally retailed for $350 gets attention for the discount, but the headphone itself is the more interesting story. The Beats Studio Pro (a set…
Three touchpad settings that fix a stuck left-click problem
My touchpad started treating every tap as a left-click last week. Not “mostly left-click with occasional right-click.” Every single tap. Open a folder, get a left-click. Right-click on a file to rename…
When Windows shows your USB device as unknown, fix the driver chain
I have spent more evenings than I want to count hunting a “Unknown USB Device (Device Descriptor Request Failed)” entry in Device Manager on a machine that, three seconds earlier, had been…
qt designer turns pyqt layout work into drag and drop
There are two ways to build a PyQt GUI. You can hand-write every line of layout code, run it, look at the result, fiddle with a stretch factor, run it again, and…
When the Task View button stops responding on Windows 11
Task View is the feature that shows every open window across every virtual desktop, and the reason it can stop working in Windows 11 is that the feature itself is rarely the…
Big Walk on PS5 looks great, but the co-op-only catch is real
Big Walk launched on PS5 with a Metacritic score of 92, which is the kind of number that usually means “this is the consensus pick of the year.” House House, the studio…