Microsoft says it’s optimizing Windows 11 for 8GB PCs, so I tested 26H2 on...
Microsoft promised to cut Windows 11's memory footprint on 8GB PCs, but early 26H2 savings showed up mostly on 16GB to 48GB machines. Here's what changed on an 8GB laptop full of work apps, a clean VM, and what Microsoft's 2GB and 200MB claims mean.
Microsoft is now scaling back Copilot in Windows 11 amid Microslop backlash, pulling 8...
Microsoft says it's retiring "Copilot actions" from the File Explorer context menu, which it recently began rolling out.
Windows 10 users were right: Windows 11 still can’t drag the taskbar, so Microsoft...
Windows Latest enabled a hidden taskbar menu in Insider Build 26340.9750 that has Left, Top, Right and Bottom buttons. It worked well with an app and Start open on our VM, and the menu first appeared in a deleted video a Microsoft engineer shared in April, when it was only a debug tool.
Why Windows 11 keeps 64-bit files in System32 and 32-bit files in SysWOW64, according...
A 32-bit app that asks for System32 on Windows 11 ends up in SysWOW64 without knowing it. I tested the WOW64 redirector on a 26H2 PC, went through Raymond Chen's take on the backward names, and found the hidden Sysnative alias plus six folders Windows doesn't redirect.
Even designers are now using AI to code Windows 11, and Microsoft says “we’re...
Lockergnome founder Chris Pirillo told Microsoft it has the AI tokens to finally unify Windows design. Windows design director Diego Baca agreed on AI, pushed back on the rest, and explained why changing an OS used by over a billion people takes time. Here’s what’s being rebuilt and what’s still stuck.
Microsoft rolls out a big Windows 11 Bluetooth upgrade, and AirPods now pair up...
If you've got AirPods, you should consider installing Windows 11's October 2026 Update, as it ships with the Bluetooth upgrade.
Why Windows 11 still won’t let you name a file CON, and Microsoft’s explanation...
CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM1 and LPT1 are still reserved device names in Windows 11 because batch files and scripts depend on them. Microsoft's docs say NUL.txt and even COM¹ are off-limits, but on Windows 11 26H2, File Explorer let us create NUL.txt.
Windows 11’s Bing Wallpaper app now acts like adware, opening Bing when you click...
Microsoft said it would reduce ads in Windows 11, but its popular wallpaper app, was recently updated with adware-like behavior.
Windows 11 will now have three ways to view your photos, because apparently one...
Windows 11's Photos app is being renamed Photo Viewer and now only opens and edits single images, while the web-based OneDrive Photos becomes the new Photos app with a Gallery for PC, OneDrive and iCloud pictures. I tried both on my Insider PC, and counting File Explorer's Gallery, that makes three.
Why Windows 11 still ships with Windows 95’s memory manager hidden inside it
SimCity read memory after freeing it, so Microsoft made Windows 95 detect the game. Years later, Raymond Chen revealed that Microsoft recompiled Windows 95’s heap manager into a compatibility fix called EmulateHeap, and you can still find it in Compatibility Administrator on Windows 11 26H2.
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