The new setup experience takes inspiration from the Media Creation Tool, the official app for creating bootable Windows media. The familiar violet backgrounds are gone, replaced with a sleek black and ...

Windows 11 looks polished out of the box, but the default setup leaves performance, privacy and reliability on the table. I always run through the same focused checklist on every new machine so it ...

Windows 11 has a new preview build It cracks down on workarounds to install the OS with a local account This is a continued campaign to force people to use a Microsoft account, and Microsoft argues it ...

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The latest Windows 11 preview build introduces the ability to specify a custom user directory for your account, something both macOS and Linux have supported for decades. When you purchase through ...

This week Microsoft released non-security preview updates for Windows 11 22H2 and 23H2 under KB5060826 as well as for 24H2 under KB5060829. The company also published dynamic updates alongside them.

This week Microsoft released new dynamic updates for Windows 11; updates for Windows 10 were not released this time. For those who may not know, dynamic updates bring improvements to the Windows ...

If you see the “Setup needs space to update” message when trying to install or update Windows 11/10, take these steps to free up disk space: Use Disk Cleanup Disable Page file and Hibernation Delete ...

Over the last few years, Windows 11 setup has been steadily pushing users towards cloud-linked Microsoft accounts, especially ...

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A few months ago, when Broadcom purchased VMware, it made VMware Fusion, the second most popular Windows virtualization solution for Mac users, behind Parallels, free for personal use. With that move, ...