Sick of trying to find a USB and Windows key? Microsoft has just made reinstalling Windows 11 less painful
 Sick of trying to find a USB and Windows key? Microsoft has just made reinstalling Windows 11 less painful

Windows 11 reinstallations will be available via the cloud, which includes appropriate drivers and doesn’t require a USB drive.

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Companies are now using automatic Windows installers to display Adware through the Microsoft Store when you install new hardware — customer immediately gets McAfee ads on their PC after connecting new LG monitor; here’s how to block the new ads

LG monitors apparently auto-install an app on your PC when you first connect them, all thanks to the Microsoft Store.

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Microsoft fixes storage-hogging Windows 11 folder
 Microsoft fixes storage-hogging Windows 11 folder

Microsoft is addressing a Windows 11 bug that caused a folder to take up several gigabytes of storage space. As spotted earlier by Windows Latest, Microsoft included the patch in its optional June 2026 update (KB5095093), which “improves disk space usage for the CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal file.” The CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal file is installed on Windows 11 PCs by […]

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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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