Microsoft suggests Copilot is the ‘button you can press to fix everything’ in Windows 11 — here’s hoping it can fix the company’s marketing department
 Microsoft suggests Copilot is the ‘button you can press to fix everything’ in Windows 11 — here’s hoping it can fix the company’s marketing department

Microsoft needs to stop this kind of cringe marketing to change perceptions around Windows 11.

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Keep running low on storage and don’t know why? Mysterious Windows 11 file that ate tons of drive space is fixed in latest update
 Keep running low on storage and don’t know why? Mysterious Windows 11 file that ate tons of drive space is fixed in latest update

If your drive space has been mysteriously disappearing of late, the problem could be Capability Access Manager.

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‘Pure old-school Windows’: Ex-Microsoft engineer shrinks down Notepad to 2.5 kilobytes with ‘no bloat, no telemetry, no nonsense’
 ‘Pure old-school Windows’: Ex-Microsoft engineer shrinks down Notepad to 2.5 kilobytes with ‘no bloat, no telemetry, no nonsense’

Want Notepad to be like it was in the Windows XP era — except even leaner? TinyRetroPad is here.

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Windows 11’s File Explorer is getting a long-awaited revamp — but here’s hoping a future update doesn’t ruin it
 Windows 11’s File Explorer is getting a long-awaited revamp — but here’s hoping a future update doesn’t ruin it

Windows 11’s File Explorer is finally getting a speed improvement via Microsoft’s latest update, but I can only hope a future update doesn’t undo it.

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Windows 11 is getting a new Screen Tint mode, and your eyes might thank Microsoft

Microsoft is testing a new Screen Tint accessibility feature in Windows 11 that helps reduce eye strain with customizable color overlays.

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RAM crisis provokes enthusiast to try Windows 11 on DDR1-era hardware — other key vintage components included the Core 2 Q6600 and ATI Radeon HD 4650 AGP

Enthusiast demos Microsoft’s newest OS running ‘completely stable’ on a Core 2 Quad Q6600, using a DDR1 motherboard, supported by an ATi Radeon HD 4650 AGP graphics card.

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Microsoft extends free Windows 10 security updates for a second year — program now ends on October 12, 2027

Microsoft has extended its free consumer Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) program by a year, pushing the cutoff for critical security patches to October 14th, 2027.

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Microsoft extends Windows 10 support out of the blue — consumers now get updates for another year to October 2027
 Microsoft extends Windows 10 support out of the blue — consumers now get updates for another year to October 2027

Worried that you run out of extended support for Windows 10 in a few months? Don’t panic — Microsoft is now covering consumers to October 2027.

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Windows 11 is now 5 years old — and for the first time this decade, I think Microsoft’s finally onto a winner with the OS
 Windows 11 is now 5 years old — and for the first time this decade, I think Microsoft’s finally onto a winner with the OS

Windows 11 got off on the wrong foot, but Microsoft has recovered strongly this year with the fix the OS campaign — and more besides.

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Laptop prices suck these days, but here are 25 Prime Day deals that help a little
 Laptop prices suck these days, but here are 25 Prime Day deals that help a little

The RAM, storage, and component crunch has come for new laptop prices. Plenty of models have gone up in price after being on the market for months, and so have those that’ve been on shelves for over a year. Plus, many new models are releasing at higher prices than the previous generation. So, it really […]

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