If you’ve ever ridden in the backseat of a friend’s car, you may have been annoyed to find you couldn’t control the power window back there. Your friend wasn’t trying tick you off; she was just ...

What happens when you get up and walk away from your PC? I answer a reader’s question about setting Windows to secure itself and save power when not in use. For purposes of security and energy ...

Microsoft's new plan to ensure PC security through extensive changes to its Windows operating system could help make private data and media files safer, but first it has to address privacy concerns, ...

Windows add air and light to a home, which can make properly securing them a difficult prospect—most of the methods that provide the highest level of security would interfere with one or both of those ...