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Turns out that the earliest versions of Windows 7 took longer to load depending on your choice of desktop wallpaper
By Jess Kinghorn published
News It wasn't just you left staring at the Welcome screen for 30 seconds.

Microsoft Recall finally launches for AI PC users, along with some other new features, almost one year after Copilot+ was announced
By Nick Evanson published
News If you don't have a Copilot+ PC, then no new stuff for you, which is a shame, as the improved search feature does look good.

Don't delete that mysterious 'inetpub' Windows folder, says Microsoft, as it's supposedly important for system security
By Andy Edser published
News Now sit down and eat your dinner, and stop touching things.

The Windows 95 start-up sound and the Minecraft soundtrack have been added to the US Library of Congress list of nationally significant recordings
By Andy Edser published
News One is significant to my childhood, at the very least.

Holy smokes, something that might actually be useful is coming to Copilot on Windows
By Jacob Fox published
News Did I just say 'holy smokes'?

'When a widespread outage affects devices from starting properly, Microsoft can broadly deploy targeted remediation': MS introduces 'quick machine recovery' for Windows 11
By Andy Edser published
News Seems like a sensible idea.

Microsoft has disabled the popular 'bypassnro' Windows 11 sign-in workaround in the latest Insider build, but there exists another
By Andy Edser published
News A loophole, closed.

Linus Torvalds admits 'pure incompetence' for missing the new Linux 6.14 kernel deadline but all is forgiven as the update is great news for non-Windows gaming
By Nick Evanson published
News And it's all down to an improved NTsync driver.
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