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Windows 12 Gearing Up To Launch June 2024
Windows 11 doesn’t feel like it launched that long ago and for once time hasn’t escaped me as it really didn’t as it was only two years ago in October 2021. Now admittedly this launch wasn’t the best, it had various issues especially with TPM overall leading to a very…
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Microsoft Offers Ugly Windows XP Sweater, Perfect For The Christmas Season
With Christmas around the corner, so are ugly sweaters, especially in the office with a range of terrible colours, itchy materials and some obscene designs. For those looking for something ugly to wear in the IT department, Microsoft have you covered with a Windows XP wallpaper themed sweater. Windows XP…
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Microsoft Begins Rolling Out Windows 11 23H2 Update
Microsoft has begun to roll out the 23H2 update for Windows 11 which is described as providing a “limited scope of new features and functionality” and includes the previously announced features back in September including Copilot AI as well as some new enhancements. Windows 11 23H2 AI Features Starting off…
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Windows Phone Returns From The Grave To Fight YouTube’s Anti-Ad Block Practices
YouTube has recently stirred up a storm in regards to its new methods of preventing ad-block which block users from watching videos with an ad blocker. Since this came into place many ad-block providers have been creating workarounds starting a war between the two but one unexpected part of this…
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Windows 7 & 8 Keys No Longer Activate Modern Versions of Windows
Microsoft previously offered a free upgrade offer to Windows 10 which ended back in 2016 however, users with old Windows 7 or 8 keys could get themselves onto Windows 10 using the free installation path upgrades until now when that all will change. Windows 7 & 8 Key Activations Ended…
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Microsoft To Finally Kill off Cortana
I’d completely forgotten that Cortana, Microsoft’s voice assistant, even existed so the news that Cortana will be shutting down caught me off guard as I’d have assumed it would have happened ages ago. Cortana To Be Shut Down As reported by windowslatest, the Cortana app recently received an update which…
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Windows Finally Supports RAR Files, No More Lying About Your Winrar License
Windows will finally be able to support .RAR files natively after many years of mild inconvenience. Windows To Support RAR Files As reported by TechCrunch, Winrar or 7zip will no longer be a necessity when trying to extract .RAR files as the format will be supported in native Windows. The…
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Microsoft Unable to Fix Windows Start Menu and Search Bar Bug
Microsoft has recently revealed a fix for a bug affecting the start menu, search bar and some Universal Windows Platform apps preventing them from starting correctly, but unfortunately its not a good fix. Windows Start Menu and UWP Bug The bug which prevents the Start Menu, Windows search bar and…
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Microsoft Confirms Windows 10 Version 22H2 is The Last
Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 Version 22H2 will be the last version of Windows 10. Windows 10 To Receive No More Updates The other day Microsoft announced in a tech community blog post, that the current 22H2 version of Windows 10 will be the final version of the operating…
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Windows 11 Introduces Photo Gallery Into File Explorer
Microsoft has introduced a major new feature to file explorer in the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23434 which brings a photo gallery to Explorer. File Explorer Photo Gallery This latest addition to the Insider Preview for Windows 11 introduces a photo gallery feature to file explorer which is…
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Steam To Drop Support For Windows 7, 8 and 8.1
As time and technology moves on old operating systems are slowly put to bed and that time is soon approaching for Windows 7 8 and 8.1 for Steam compatibility Steam Dropping Old Windows Support In an announcement from steam support, as of January 1st 2024, Steam will officially stop supporting…
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Ugreen Launches 9-in-1 USB-C Docking Station with DisplayLink Technology
Ugreen has today announced the launch of its new 9-in-1 USB-C Docking Station. Providing users with 100W fast charging, 9 different ports to meet most needs, quick file transfer and the ability to extend to up to 2 extra displays, it is a handy and compact gadget to help to…
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New Vulnerabilities Found in TPM 2.0 Library
A pair of new vulnerabilities have been found within the TPM 2.0 Library by a cybersecurity company by the name of Quarkslab. These vulnerabilities have the potential to be a threat to billions of devices What Are the Vulnerabilities? These vulnerabilities involve the Trusted Platform Module, TPM for short, which…
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AMD Addresses Rare Driver Bug Found to Brick Windows Installations
AMD has officially acknowledged the existence of a rare bug within its Radeon driver version Adrenalin 23.2.1 which caused windows installations to become bricked. AMD Drivers Bricking Windows Installs This issue was reported earlier this year and was extremely rare, those unfortunate enough to encounter it after installing the drivers…
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App-Specific Volume Mixer to Finally Be Added Back to Windows 11
Windows 11 has been a mixed bag in terms of people liking and disliking it, I myself personally quite like it ignoring all the little quirks and poor UX changes, but one change that has annoyed me from Windows 11 is the lack of an app-specific volume mixer. For the…
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