Microsoft admits one bad driver can crash all of Windows, and Intel’s Windows 11...
Intel has confirmed itsGPU drivers are now fully compatible with Windows 11 26H2, and now it could get Microsoft's DQI upgrade.
First look: A major Windows 11 Search overhaul is coming, and it changes your...
At today's Windows event, Microsoft confirmed there's a new Windows Search coming to all PCs later this year, and it's built from scratch. It offers faster results, and thousands of quick...
“Nobody wants Copilot”: Microsoft pauses Copilot on Windows 11’s taskbar to “incorporate your feedback,”...
Microsoft spent almost a year turning the Windows 11 taskbar Search box into Ask Copilot, a floating entry point for Microsoft 365 Copilot and agents. Now it's disabled, weeks before the unified Copilot arrived, just as Windows Search got cleaner. Our testing shows its compact UI deserves to survive.
Windows 11’s taskbar is quietly borrowing an old trick from Windows XP: a list...
Microsoft is testing a "Show taskbar previews as" setting in Windows 11 that replaces hover thumbnails with a list of window titles, much like Windows XP did with grouped windows. A new Mobile devices tile in Quick Settings also lets you ring, silence or put a linked Android phone on Do Not Disturb.
Microsoft reveals what’s actually new in Windows 11 26H2, and how to verify it
Microsoft's 26H2 feature list is mostly made of things your PC got through monthly updates. We explain what the 174KB enablement package switches on, which defaults change on work PCs, why my three-year-old 16GB laptop now uses noticeably less RAM, and how to confirm build 26300 in Settings or with winver.
Microsoft might bring Windows XP’s 3D Pinball to Windows 11, as Windows boss puts...
3D Pinball left Windows after XP because a 64-bit bug made the ball pass through objects like a ghost, and nobody could decode the old code. Now Pavan Davuluri has added it to Microsoft's list of ideas, with a Windows and Surface event on October 7 and a sound refresh already hinted.
Windows 11 26H2 quietly shipped with a major performance boost, and here’s why
26H2 is an enablement package, but it rolls up months of performance work, including Low Latency Profile for app launches. On our 16GB laptop, RAM after a restart dropped to 7GB, and WhatsApp, Teams, Outlook and 4K YouTube together stayed under 90%.
Windows 11’s File Explorer is finally giving the squiggly ~ key a job, sending...
There's a new Windows 11 update that will soon give the squiggly ~ key a job, and that is to quickly open folders like your user profile, Documents, Downloads, and, sometimes...
Windows 7’s Aero Shake never disappeared from Windows 11, how to enable it right...
Microsoft renamed Windows 7's Aero Shake and turned it off by default, but it still lets you keep one window open while everything else minimizes. Here's how to turn it on, how it differs from Win + D and Show desktop, and why Windows 7 got it right.
“Rising cost of memory,” Microsoft explains why Windows 11 will use less RAM
In Microsoft's Inside Windows podcast, Davuluri and Marcus Ash explained how Windows 11 will use less RAM, and Microsoft later made 8GB PC optimization official. Here's why Windows 11 uses so much RAM, how AI drove up memory prices, and what Microsoft is fixing.
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