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I never really liked the Home page of the Settings app that Microsoft introduced last year in Windows 11. Back then, I described it as half promotion half pointless. Windows 11 users who open the Settings app see the home page by default. It features a mix of quick settings, which Microsoft calls recommended, account…
Not every Windows vulnerability requires patching according to Microsoft. When Microsoft analyses reported vulnerabilities, it may conclude that a vulnerability does not meet the bar for servicing. Exactly this happened to a security researcher recently who reported a Windows Event Log vulnerability to Microsoft. Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in a crash of the…
Vividl – Video Downloader is an open source tool for Microsoft Windows devices to download videos from hundreds of websites. The app uses the popular downloader youtube-dl / yt-dlp in the background. It supports downloads of video or audio files from hundreds of sites. Most video streaming sites do not want you to download videos….
Glow is an open source program for Microsoft Windows devices that displays a wealth of information about the system it is run on. What are the features that it offers and how does it compare to popular alternatives such as Speccy? Read on to find out. Glow: a system analyzer Windows displays some information about…
The European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) will come into force in March 2024. The EU identified several products and services as gatekeepers. These fall under the new regulation. One of the main goals is to level the playing field and avoid abuses of power. Six companies and 22 services and products are gatekeepers according…
Each Windows user has a user profile that holds customizations and personal files. Users may install software, download files or change the look and feel of Windows. Backing up user profiles may not be something that most users are familiar with. There are full system backups after all, which include user profile data. User backups…
Zip archives are widely used on today’s Internet and on desktop computer systems. The Zip archive format is popular and used for distributing files, programs or saving space. Archives contain one or more files. A Zip archive needs to be extracted, which is called unzipping. Windows 11 supports the Zip archive format by default. It…
Microsoft’s Windows 11 operating system supports a wide range of color settings. Users may customize the color for window borders and title bars, the Start button and the taskbar. Microsoft distinguishes between color modes, which refers to dark, light and custom modes, and individual color settings of each mode. This has not changed in the…
Microsoft announced a dedicated Copilot key for Windows recently. Yusuf Mehdi himself announced the “year of AI” and the introduction of the Copilot key for Windows 11 PCs. Microsoft and several OEMs will ship upcoming devices with the key on the keyboard. Information about the key is scarce at the moment. While Microsoft did publish…
When Microsoft launched Windows 11 in late 2021, it did not only block millions of Windows PC owners from updating to the operating system, it also made the use of Microsoft Edge mandatory for certain operations. Want to open support articles? Edge is required. Web search results? Edge is required. Links to articles and other…