Marshall Gunnell/IDG To enable this feature — which, to be clear, you have to do before your laptop is stolen—click the Start Menu in the bottom-left corner of your desktop and then click ...

What do you think so far? Reapplying thermal paste is no easy task, though, especially if you aren’t familiar with opening up laptops and tinkering inside. Once you open your laptop and access t ...

There are several things you can do, from performing basic checks to updating battery drivers, to resolve the underlying issue and get your Windows laptop charging as usual. Before diving into ...

For more tips, follow our system restore point guide. If no matter what you do you can't get the laptop to charge properly and it still has some power, you can try a factory reset. This turns the ...

(MoneyWatch) COMMENTARY If you discount the battery, your laptop could probably live pretty much forever. Sure, a 10 year old laptop isn't much fun to use -- its 5-generation-old technology is as ...

So, you have an old laptop and you're wondering, "What do I do with it?" E-waste is a concern and priority for manufacturers and consumers alike. There are now many measures in place to help ...

1. Wait: Give It a Minute to Catch Up When performing a particularly CPU-intensive task, sometimes things will hang for a moment, making you think your laptop is permanently frozen even if it's ...

If you plug in your laptop and find that it's not charging, what should you do? When it comes to laptop batteries, there are multiple things that can fail. Some are easy to fix yourself with a ...