Microsoft Windows 11 operating system articles
It’s almost certain that Microsoft will release Windows 12 in the near future – sometime in 2024, probably – but the question is, do we need it? I was prompted to consider this question, having read Jim Hillier’s excellent article Are We Heading For An […]
Make Windows 11 Easy On The Eyes For some reason, I have never categorized myself as a senior. I am, the logical part of my brain knows this, but it isn’t until some things make you aware. Like the first time I received an AARP
Android For Windows 11 Getting your head around the fact that there are an astounding two billion computers in use in the world is hard enough. A quick breakdown might help understand the reason that Microsoft’s acceptance of giving users the ability to run Android
Safe Mode, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Just kidding, paraphrasing the song… War (what is it good for). Safe Mode can be a very useful mechanism to help diagnose issues and rid the system of rogue software, but booting into Safe Mode has
We recently published an article explaining a number of useful Windows tips – 7 Useful Tips You May Have Forgotten – and this article carries on the same theme with more useful tips. Make Text Bigger This tip works for all types of documents. Many
One of my main grudges with Windows 11 is being forced to use a Microsoft account rather than a local one in the setup. There are a few posted tricks to bypass this online. I’m going to install Windows 11 on one of my old
In this article, I’ll show you how to add the “Copy To” and “Move To” options into Explorer’s right-click context menu. This is a registry hack that has been around since Windows 7 days and still works today. This guide is specific to Windows 11
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Although I don’t use Windows Search much anymore, preferring Everything, which I wrote about last December in Everything – Windows Search At Light Speed, it seems that Microsoft is determined to ram Bing down our throats at any given opportunity. Bing may be an excellent
Windows Fax And Scan was first introduced in Windows Vista back in 2007 and has been an integral part of Windows ever since… if you can find it. Some may wonder why I’m writing about a program that’s 16 years old, especially since hardly anyone
Yes, folks, you read that correctly – the new TPM 2.0 (Trusted Platform Module) security mechanism that Microsoft insisted everyone must have to enhance security includes a serious security flaw. This recently discovered vulnerability in TPM 2.0 could allow hackers to execute malicious code, which
TPM Vulnerability Discovered – Affects Billions! Read More »
Did you know you can surf the web and test software with perfect safety from within Windows Sandbox? Sandboxing is an isolation technique whereby all data related to the user’s online and offline activity is encapsulated within a special container (or Sandbox), completely separate from
Microsoft has recently published an Announcement that tends to suggest that Windows 11 installations that don’t meet the mandatory requirements might soon become unsupported. Find out what’s new in Windows 11 22H2: New Windows 11 Update 22H2 Microsoft recently announced that it has begun rolling
Windows 11 Update 22H2 To Break Invalid Installations? Read More »
No doubt we all recall Microsoft’s now infamous announcement that Windows 10 would be the last Windows version. How then did we end up with Windows 11? The decision to release Windows 11 was a huge backflip by Microsoft and obviously, something happened to cause
If you have family or work correspondences in countries around the world, it is nice to know their local time. Two world clocks can be added to the Taskbar’s local clock in Windows 10 and 11 for a total of three clocks. To add this,
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