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Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 11 version 24H2 release will block certain tweaking apps from running or making modifications to the system. When you look at Windows development of the past ten years, you may notice a trend: certain options get removed without proper alternative. The release of Windows 11 is a prime example. Suddenly, users could…
Yesterday, Microsoft announced the price that organizations have to pay to extend Windows 10 support after October 2025. What Microsoft did not say was how much consumers will have to pay to keep their Windows 10 systems supported. The Windows 10 operating system will reach end of support in October 2025. This means, that Microsoft…
When Microsoft released Windows 10 in 2015, it introduced the new Settings app. Back then, Microsoft said that the app would replace the ancient Control Panel in the future. And so it began. The initial version of Settings lacked many options that the Control Panel offered. Users and administrators had to juggle between the two…
If you share a Windows PC with others, you may have noticed that users may appear as signed in after you log in to the operating system. A click on the Start button and another click on the user profile icon may reveal this. Should not Windows sign out users when the system is shut…
All hard drives have a limited lifespan. It does not really matter if you use Solid State Drives or platter-based drives. Eventually, they will fail. It is therefore important to keep an eye on the status of hard drives. This gives you enough time to migrate the data to a new hard drive to avoid…
Microsoft continues to enhance Notepad, the plain text editor of the Windows operating system. After adding features such as tabs, auto saves, or text formatting to Notepad, it is now testing spellchecking support. The latest version of Notepad, version 11.2402.18.0, includes the functionality. It is available in the Canary and Dev development channels only. Not…
Microsoft released the Windows 11 update KB5035942 earlier this week. The update for the Windows 11 Release Preview channel includes several new features. One of them is that widgets may now be displayed on the lock screen. Wait a minute, was not this just introduced already? Yes and no. The Windows 10 update KB5035941 for…
Inplace Upgrade Helper is an open source tool designed to help Windows users move between different Windows 10 and 11 editions. The Windows edition, e.g., Home or Pro, determines whether certain features are available or not. A common example is that Home editions lack access to the Group Policy Editor. Windows includes options to switch…
Barely a week goes by with Microsoft making yet another announcement about Copilot AI or launching a new development build of Windows 11 with Copilot added to something. This time, Microsoft added Copilot functionality to the default file manager of Windows, File Explorer. This particular implementation does not add Copilot directly to File Explorer though….
A new version of WingetUI, a universal UI for package managers, is now available. WingetUI 3.0 features a fully redesigned interface that the developers promise is more responsive and visually pleasing. Packages should load faster under in the new version, and the application’s package importing and exporting functionality has also been improved. You can check…