Microsoft is testing a built-in network speed test in Windows 11’s taskbar, alongside Sysmon integration and other feature updates in preview builds.

The first is a Surface Go 2, a six-year-old machine that just barely squeaked in under the Windows 11 compatibility wire with ...

The tool, rolling out now to Windows Insiders, is accessible from the taskbar, but it opens and runs in your default browser.

The network icon in the system tray's context menu and the Wi-Fi quick settings page in Windows 11 are getting buttons to let you quickly run a network speed test. (Takes you to Bing to do the speed ...

This process is called a clean install, which is ironic as there's nothing particularly clean about it: Microsoft has enshittified Windows Setup.

Microsoft has warned against multiple flaws in Windows and Office software that the company says are being actively used by ...

Microsoft has issued emergency security fixes for Windows and Office after confirming hackers were actively exploiting multiple zero-day vulnerabilities, some of which allow one-click attacks that can ...

It's officially time to let go. Windows 10 has been over as we know it for some time now, only for Windows 11 to have taken over. To finalize things even further, Microsoft ended support for the ...

Sick of Microsoft's AI push, I switched from Windows 11 to the ancient Windows XP. What could go wrong?

Although Microsoft has improved File Explorer over the years, it still doesn't meet modern expectations. You can't open folders side by side, add tags to folders, pin ...

Tiny10, developed by NTEDV, is a simplified version of Windows 10. Using this OS, you can run Windows 10 on low-end PCs. It cuts out unnecessary apps and services but keeps core tools like Disk ...

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