Windows 11 lets you move the taskbar from Settings, and Microsoft says that's intentional. We revisit Tali Roth's reflow explanation, the hidden Left/Top/Right/Bottom menu in testing, and why power users and Windows 10 holdouts deserve more weight than internal metrics give them.

Marcus Ash says Diego Baca had a working prototype of the Quick Settings speed test within a day. In our tests, it matched phone results in under 30 seconds. With WinUI finally gaining tables and charts and legacy dialogs moving over, Clipchamp, Weather and Teams deserve to be next in line.

Microsoft says crash dumps aren't collected unless you send Optional diagnostic data, but Required data still flags the long press itself. Here's what the Diagnostics & feedback page, Kernel-Power Event ID 41, and Microsoft's little-known 0x1C8 bug check with its "release the power button" screen reveal.

Windows Latest found that Windows 11's new taskbar Search lists Android apps from your linked phone as Mobile App results. Selecting Bluesky opened it on my Samsung A26 and mirrored it to my PC via Phone Link, while Microsoft now confirms Search can also call, text and turn on Do Not Disturb.

Microsoft promised a DataGrid and charts for WinUI at Build 2026. TableView, Chart and InkCanvas are now in an experimental Windows App SDK release, almost five years after third-party vendors started selling these controls for WinUI. Here’s what each one does and what’s still missing.

Windows 11 24H2, 25H2 and 26H2 share one servicing branch, so 26H2 is a tiny master switch for up-to-date PCs. Windows 11 23H2 is on the older 22H2/23H2 branch, so it needs a full OS swap built on a 5.3GB base image, and 23H2 Enterprise support ends on November 10.

You don't have to pay Adobe if you just want to edit, extract, merge, or organize PDFs on Windows 11, thanks to Microsoft Edge.

Microsoft's own docs say Task Manager's ancestor ran at high priority to respond under any load, but Raymond Chen says priority can't help a thread stuck waiting on a lock, a slow network file or Windows' UI system. Here's what AutoBoost, focus boosts and QoS can and can't do.

Windows 10's end of support pushed PC shipments up 9.1% in 2025, but Microsoft now says that boom, OEM inventory drawdowns and weak demand cut Windows OEM revenue 27%. With Windows 10 still on over a quarter of PCs and memory prices rising, Microsoft expects things to get worse.

I tested the new File Explorer context menu on my daily PC, and it opens instantly with just eight items by default. Settings now let you add Print, Send to and Copy as path, move Ask Copilot or Clipchamp in or out of the main menu, show Cut and Copy inline, and hide the legacy menu.

Five years ago, John Ternus said the Mac was built for indirect input and Apple had no reason to change. Now, as Apple's CEO, he is selling a touchscreen MacBook Pro using a classic pre-emptive claim, while Windows laptops and Surface devices have shipped with touchscreens since the Windows 8 days.

Windows 11 KB5127936 lets you customize the context menu, which means you can now choose what appears when you right-click anywhere.

Microsoft's Jen Gentleman and Aria Hanson say the Restart now button that appears mid-install is meant for people who want a ready update applied right away. But users have complained about it on Microsoft's own forum since 2020, and a .NET update finishing first is often what triggers it.

Long before Zoom, Windows Messenger let Windows XP users video chat, share apps and call landlines through paid providers. MSN Messenger was a different app altogether, and after Windows Live Messenger and Skype were retired, Microsoft’s messaging ended at Teams, a WebView2 app built for work.

I'm sure most of you have run into this at some point: you quickly press the Start button, start typing to find your app, and hit Enter, only to realize that you're opening a...