The User Account Control (UAC) tool was one of Vista's most vilified features -- popping up and nagging you whenever you wanted to install or update a program -- and many users will be surprised to ...

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Instagram rolls out algorithm control options to all English-speaking users, allowing greater control over recommended ...

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Facebook knows a lot about you. And so do the third-party app makers and partners in the social network's ecosystem. Amid concerns over Facebook's use of tracking users with pixels, Belgium joins the ...

Roku gathers a wide range of information from your device, including search history, voice inputs, channel usage, ad interactions, and personal preferences, and it shares some of this data with ...

Microsoft has been phasing out the Control Panel in favor of the Settings app since 2012. But more than a decade later, it’s still in no hurry to disappear. The Control Panel is still necessary for ...

What just happened? Microsoft is on a crusade to kill off any and all traces of "old Windows" in its latest Windows 10 operating system, and though the progress has been slow, the company took another ...