Microsoft Is Painting WordPad Into A Corner
Microsoft is more or less keeping their word that Paint will not be going away, but they are making it an optional feature in upcoming builds. It seems that both WordPad and…
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Tag: Windows 10
Cortana, Are Windows 10 Updates A Joke To You?
Windows 10 Build 18956 is arriving for those on the Fast Ring, including The Register who took a look at the upcoming update. If you are looking for improvements that actually have…
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That New SWAPGS Spectre Flaw Was Already Patched
We only found out about the SWAPGS variant of Spectre V1 which affects Intel processors yesterday, but apparently Microsoft quietly pushed a Windows 10 patch for it last month. The...
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Stuck In Windows S? You Are Not Alone!
If you have recently discovered you a trapped in a world where you can only install or run UWP programs grabbed from the Microsoft Store, you are suffering from the same issue…
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Nice OS You Got There, Shame If Someone Were To Update It
Windows 10 has had more EOL dates than any previous Microsoft OS and we are quickly approaching yet another one. On November 12th Windows 10 1803, aka Spring 2018, will be retired…
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Windows 10 1903 Adds VRR to Unsupported Games
Full-screen, DirectX 11 applications that do not natively support variable refresh rates (VRR) might suddenly start working with GSync and Adaptive-Sync. A Microsoft Developer Blog post discusses the new feature...
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Windows Media Center, the second coming?
Charlie Owen, who was on the original Windows Media Center team has posted the entirety of the WMC SDK to GitHub for any and all to work on. This means that for…
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Windows 10 Create Process Performance Analysis
Bruce Dawson (currently at Google on the Chrome team; formerly at Valve, Microsoft, and others) has blogged another example of Windows 10 performance regressions – this time in CreateProcess. He...
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It’s a Tile fire, another reason to distrust your new Start Menu
*** Update from April 18th, 11:56 Microsoft has now deleted the nameserver record and we no longer control the subdomain. We still haven't received a reply from Microsoft. *** If...
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Microsoft Changes Course on Forced Windows 10 Feature Updates
The era of forced Windows Update for Windows 10 users is coming to an end. In a surprise move by Microsoft today it was announced that - at least for feature updates…
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Nice OS you have there; shame if something happened to it
It does have to be said that running a 10 year old Microsoft OS might not be the wisest decision; though it is better than running one 18 years old. However,…
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Windows 10 KB4482887 Update Causes Performance Issues
Microsoft has just acknowledged a graphics and mouse input performance issue with their March 1st, 2019 update for Windows 10. The “Known Issues” section of the update’s documentation, KB4482887, claims...
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Skip Ahead? Skip Way Ahead. Windows 10 20H1 Test Build
Microsoft has pushed a test build for Windows 10 20H1, which is scheduled to be publicly released around April 2020. For context, we are currently on Windows 10 18H2 and...
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Microsoft Separates Cortana and Search in Latest Insider Build
In their announcement of the latest Windows 10 insider preview build (18317) Microsoft has revealed their separation of Cortana from Search. The news was posted on the Windows Blogs site...
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Cortana shall babble about cat videos no more!
The most widely used OS on the planet has finally received an upgrade worth getting excited over. Anyone who spends time imaging machines is all to familiar with the voice...
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Windows Sandbox Virtual Environment Coming to Windows 10 in 2019
Windows Sandbox is a new virtual machine environment coming to Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise versions in 2019, which will be available as an optional component within Windows. Microsoft details the upcoming feature…
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Incoming friendly fire! Microsoft is launching more patches!!!
The seemingly endless barrage of patches attempting to patch the issue the previous patches attempt to patch after needing a patch to patch the patch ... continues ad nauseam. If you are…
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