Items tagged with windows 11
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jul 07, 2025
Windows 11 is now the most popular operating system on the desktop, according to the latest market share figures at Statcounter. It took the first week of July for Windows 11 to reach that point, after coming up just short of overtaking...
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Victor Awogbemila - Thu, Jun 12, 2025
This month's Patch Tuesday introduced an issue that caused PCs to crash when opening certain games that make use of anti-cheat software. Gaming is big business, and so this prompted Microsoft to quickly roll out an emergency update to...
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Bruno Ferreira - Sat, Jun 07, 2025
Windows enthusiasts and mainstream users both have a pleasant bit of new technoiogy coming their way. A fresh new development build of Windows 11, available in the Insider channel, includes what Microsoft calls "User Interaction-Aware CPU...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Jun 03, 2025
ASUS has a message for Windows 10 users and it's similar to the one Microsoft has been shouting from a mountaintop for the past several months (and longer): Your days are numbered. Or more precisely (and less ominously), "your computer's...
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Aaron Leong - Mon, Jun 02, 2025
Microsoft has swiftly deployed an emergency patch to address a critical issue that has been preventing some Windows 11 systems from properly installing the May 2025 security update (KB5058405). The problem, which primarily impacts...
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Aaron Leong - Fri, May 30, 2025
It might be time to put down those pitchforks, PC gamers. A critical update, Windows 11 KB5058499, is finally bringing much-needed stability to systems running Windows 11 24H2, addressing a range of frustrating performance issues that plagued users since its release. Contrary to popular...
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Bruno Ferreira - Wed, May 07, 2025
There's some relatively good news for Windows users worldwide: Microsoft has finally deemed the Windows 11 24H2 update fit for general consumption. The point release will now be automatically downloaded on all eligible Windows 11 Home and...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Apr 14, 2025
Another day means another Windows update, and this time it comes with a warning from Microsoft. You may have noticed a new folder in your root C:\ folder after applying the latest cumulative update for April 2025. Furthermore, you may have...
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Bruno Ferreira - Tue, Apr 08, 2025
Fans of local computer accounts everywhere, rejoice, for when a door closes, another one opens. Windows 11 hackers have found yet another way to bypass the installer's Microsoft account requirement, nary a moment after the company disabled...
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Victor Awogbemila - Sun, Apr 06, 2025
Support for Windows 10 is ending on October 14 for consumers, and Microsoft won't be backing away from this deadline. Microsoft has reiterated that every Windows user with hardware that doesn't meet the minimum requirements of Windows 11...
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Victor Awogbemila - Fri, Apr 04, 2025
Yesterday, Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3671 (KB5055622), which contains a new feature that allows users to select how their taskbars will display app icons.
This new feature shrinks down icons when multiple...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Mar 17, 2025
Are you having trouble installing Microsoft's Patch Tuesday update for March? You're not alone. The newest update is reportedly brimming with issues running the gamut from minor annoyances, like running into installation errors, to...
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Zak Killian - Mon, Mar 03, 2025
You've probably done it yourself: you need to know how hard a given application is hitting your CPU, so you pull up Windows' Task Manager to check the CPU utilization. For a casual inquiry, this is fine, but for anything approaching...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Feb 04, 2025
Up until very recently, Microsoft detailed how you could go about installing Windows 11 on an older PC that does not meet the operating system's hardware requirements, and specifically the TPM 2.0 requirement. It recommended against going...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Feb 03, 2025
It's been four years and four months since Microsoft released Windows 11 to the wild. In the time since, it hasn't exactly ingratiated itself with a majority of users, especially those who are still clinging to Windows 10, but it has been...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jan 20, 2025
We're just a few weeks into 2025, or as Microsoft recently called it, the "year of the Windows 11 PC refresh." The comment came in a blog post in which Microsoft made a pitch to rid yourself of your crusty old Windows 10 (or earlier)...
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Alan Velasco - Wed, Jan 08, 2025
Microsoft wants people and organizations to pick up a new PC in 2025, referring to it as “the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh.” To try and entice users to make the jump to its latest operating system, it’s highlighting the benefits...
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Zak Killian - Fri, Dec 27, 2024
Just in case you thought Windows 11 24H2's issues were over, here's the latest headache from the good folks at Microsoft. It turns out that physical installation media (meaning CDs and flash drives) created for Windows 11 24H2 that also...
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Zak Killian - Sat, Dec 21, 2024
You're almost assuredly familiar with the hassle, because you probably use Windows, and you probably use another browser besides Microsoft's Edge on Windows. That's just going by statistics. Most Windows users use something besides Edge...
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Alan Velasco - Thu, Dec 12, 2024
Apple users who venture outside the company’s ecosystem suffer from a less than stellar experience. Microsoft has worked over the years to make things a little easier for Windows PC users with iPhones. It provides the Phone Link app on PCs...
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Ryan Whitwam - Mon, Dec 09, 2024
Microsoft has struggled to come up with uses for all the fancy AI acceleration hardware in today's laptops. Even machines with Copilot+ branding have offered little in the way of AI extras, but that's slowly changing. After releasing the...
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Alan Velasco - Tue, Nov 26, 2024
With the latest update to Star Wars Outlaws, Ubisoft noted that users running Windows 11 24H2 are susceptible to some annoying issues. However, it appears as if this isn’t the only game from the publisher that’s having problems on...
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