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Setting every registry value to zero in Windows 10 breaks most features—but Paint and WordPad cling on until the very last
By Andy Edser published
news The Windows registry remains a place of mystery and wonder.

Beware: The latest Windows 11 update might just trap you in a boot loop of virtualised doom
By Jacob Fox published
News Thankfully, this should only be a problem for virtualised environments that installed the optional update.

Ageing Windows 10 PCs will live on an extra five years thanks to third-party security patches
By Jeremy Laird published
news 0patch's "micropatches" can be applied without a reboot and easily reversed.

Microsoft president grovels before Congress, takes responsibility for a 'cascade' of cybersecurity errors
By Jeremy Laird published
news Chinese hackers accessed US government data thanks to Microsoft's 'avoidable errors'.

Microsoft chickens out of rolling out Recall to all Copilot+ PCs, choosing instead to push the all-seeing AI tool out to Windows Insiders first
By Nick Evanson published
news So, not a total recall of Recall, then. Shame.

Microsoft makes Recall an optional feature on Copilot+ PCs after it 'heard a clear signal' from the public
By Nick Evanson published
news Better security has been added too but does that matter when you now have the option to ignore a feature nobody asked for?

Microsoft changes course on the controversial Windows 11 feature that constantly takes screenshots of your PC's screen: Now you'll have to opt in if you want to use it
By Andy Chalk published
news It's still a terrible idea but at least now you won't have anyone to blame but yourself.

The latest Windows 11 update has finally patched out the most annoying video playback bug 'when you use a Chromium-based browser to play a video'
By Andy Edser published
news Keep checkerboards where they belong—in the bottom of that cupboard, right underneath Scrabble.
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