User Account Control notifies you before PC changes that require Administrator-level permissions. It prompts for approval or denial of any initiated changes. If approved, the change is made; if denied ...

Microsoft has made sure to take this into account when shaping its settings for the Xbox Live platform, allowing its users to change a multitude of different privacy and safety features. In order to ...

For decades, group policies have been the go-to mechanism for securing devices on a Windows network. The problem with using group policies, however, is that they generally require a device to be ...

Default privacy settings in popular mobile apps seem like a convenience, allowing you to use a single setting to control the level of privacy—who can see which actions you take—across all of the app’s ...

To access the Accounts settings in Windows 11, right-click on the Start Menu and select Settings. Now, in the Settings app, select the Accounts category from the left pane. This will open the Accounts ...

Microsoft officials shared more specifics around the coming ability of Windows 8 to sync user settings and app purchases in a September 26 post on the Building Windows 8 blog. Microsoft revealed at ...