I distinctly remember around 20 years ago pressing the start button on my beige Windows XP desktop and waiting three or four minutes for it to fully boot. I was always so excited to get on my PC and ...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected an employer's argument that computer start-up time occurred prior to certain employee shifts and that it was not integral and indispensable to employees' ...

The pursuit of a fast-booting PC has been one of the core tenets of PC enthusiasm for many years. From CPU overclocking to hard drive defragging and removing every unnecessary software feature from ...

As a good PC user, I run security software in Windows to protect my computer from malware that may pop up as I go about my day. But what about malware that tries to launch before Windows even loads?

Lenovo, the world’s fourth largest PC maker, is rushing to claim the fastest boot-up and shutdown times for Windows 7 on its ThinkPad laptops and ThinkCentre desktop machines. Why does a PC need to ...

Simon is a Computer Science BSc graduate who has been writing about technology since 2014, and using Windows machines since 3.1. After working for an indie game studio and acting as the family's go-to ...

I'm having a curious issue with an Asus desktop computer. A cold boot will always boot up perfectly fine. But a restart will usually (but not always) leave me in a boot loop of Windows briefly ...