Get-WinEvent — how to investigate errors and crashes on Windows
Use Get-WinEvent in PowerShell to find out why the PC rebooted on its own, a service stopped or an app crashed — without …
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Robocopy: automatic Windows backup without installing anything extra
Robocopy already ships with Windows and does incremental, mirror and multi-threaded backups — with nothing to install. …
Windows NT 3.1: 33 years of the system that retired DOS
On July 27, 1993, Microsoft shipped Windows NT 3.1 — the first real Windows, with no DOS underneath. The kernel born …
How to schedule Windows tasks without a GUI — schtasks in practice
schtasks is the crontab of Windows: already installed, runs in the terminal and needs no graphical interface. Learn it …
Critical 7-Zip flaw (CVE-2026-14266): how to protect yourself
A critical flaw (CVE-2026-14266) in 7-Zip allows malicious code execution via XZ archives. Here's how to update and …
CrowdStrike: the day one update caused 8.5 million BSODs
On 19 July 2024, CrowdStrike Falcon crashed 8.5 million PCs with a BSOD. The biggest cyber outage in history: technical …
WannaCry: how an NSA exploit infected 200,000 PCs in 2017
In May 2017, WannaCry used an NSA exploit to infect 200,000 PCs across 150 countries. Brazil was the 5th worst hit — and …
SSH on Windows 11 without PuTTY: native OpenSSH in 5 minutes
Windows 10 and 11 have shipped a built-in SSH client since 2018. How to connect to servers, generate ed25519 keys and …
winget: install and update every Windows app in seconds
winget is the native Windows package manager that replaces clicking with a single command. How to install, update and …
Clipper malware steals crypto via USB and uses Tor as C2
Microsoft warns of a campaign active since February 2026 that combines a USB worm, clipboard hijacking and Tor-based C2 …