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Own an HP laptop and hate the big Caps Lock icon that's just started appearing and taking over the screen when you press the key? There's a cure thankfully.

Clues in Windows 11 suggest that if your PC can't run AI Explorer, Microsoft might implement a warning - but we doubt it'll be a watermark as some fear.

Microsoft is bringing tech developed for Windows 11 into play, allowing Windows 10 updates to be shrunk considerably from May onwards.

Microsoft could expand on its existing recommendations in Windows 11 by weaving full-on adverts into the interface of the operating system.

Windows 11 still has a Control Panel, but Microsoft is slowly picking away at what's left of its carcass, with another ability moved to the Settings app.

Microsoft is going to roll out an update for Windows 11 that makes a controversial addition to the Start menu, as it now will show ads.

Microsoft has just tightened up the total number of PCs that Windows 11 is able to run on, with users discovering the supported CPU list is shrinking.

What's 'screen understanding' and an 'intent engine' exactly? These are clues to what AI Explorer might do, and they could make some folks nervous.

Microsoft is forging ahead with one of its experiments with advertising, and Windows 11 users will be seeing Start menu ads for Microsoft Store apps.

New scheme in testing lets users of the Photos app apply all sorts of AI tricks - by whizzing the image over for editing in the Microsoft Designer site.

Those who haven't activated their copy of Windows 11 (or Windows 10) won't be able to change settings in Edge, if this idea progresses from testing.

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Microsoft is testing new ways to customize the Windows 11 Start menu with an announcement about the Windows 11 Insider Preview Build.

Microsoft has officially lifted a 29-month compatibility hold that prevented certain Windows 10 PCs from being able to upgrade to Windows 11.

Microsoft is apparently going to make big revelations about AI PCs at its Build 2024 conference, including a linchpin feature for AI.

Even on a Core i9 rig with 128GB of RAM, the Windows 11 Start Menu search tool is prone to hang, freeze, and take several seconds to do its thing.

Microsoft officially announced it's killing support for its most popular operating system and is now pushing users to its latest OS with full-screen ads.

Snipping Tool has been fleshed out a fair bit, along with a number of other core Windows 11 apps - and Microsoft is adding a few new features in testing.

The Start menu has been spotted with 'promoted' apps in testing, which could be yet another way Microsoft monetizes an OS it already charges for.

A new driver release, version 23.40.0, comes with a fix for Blue Screen of Death crashes, and an odd problem with an errant yellow exclamation mark.

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Changes are in testing right now - for the Canary and Dev channels - but should progress soon enough to the release version of Windows 11.

What to keep using Windows 10 after it goes end-of-life in late 2025? You'll need to pay up, with the price of ongoing security support doubling each year.

Sort of - at least the mapping behind the Copilot key dates back to IBM PCs which had a massive bank of function keys, some 24 of them, in fact.

Drag and drop is being dragged back onto the menu for File Explorer, after Microsoft ditched it (temporarily) as part of the Moment 4 update.

Intel has shared details of what the requirements will be for an 'AI PC' and they include an NPU, and also a demand that a Copilot key must be present.

The Format disk tool in Windows hasn't changed in decades, it was created by a programmer in a single day and the UI was only mean to be temporary.

To the surprise of those finding it, there's a Copilot app in both release and preview versions of Windows 11 - though it's just a shell of a client.

The addition of a spellcheck - and autocorrect - feature is welcome in the default app, which Microsoft is continually improving alongside other core apps.

Google's put a different spin on its Google Play Games app for Windows 11 by including native PC titles, and not just Android games.

Well, we were expecting that the latest GPT-4 Turbo model would come to the free spin on Copilot in time - but definitely not this swiftly.

New AI features are expected to include a huge stride forward with AI Explorer - a supercharged AI-powered search - and a big change to the Paint app.

In the Beta channel a new change is rolling out that means when users hover the mouse over the Copilot icon in the taskbar, the AI's panel pops open.

Microsoft's newest operating system is struggling to make meaningful progress in terms of adoption, with Windows 10 gaining more users last month.

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Microsoft is rolling out the ability for users to drag and drop a file to Copilot, which the AI will then summarize, saving a whole lot of effort.

This is such a neat idea, it's difficult to believe it hasn't happened before - and it's a definite boon for Android phone owners with a Windows 11 PC.

Copilot gets plugins and new abilities to tweak Settings in Windows 11, with AI features also coming to the Photos app and Clipchamp.

Windows 11 gamers who play with a DualSense controller - or indeed two of them - should make haste and grab the new Intel Wireless Bluetooth Driver.

Some folks are encountering a sluggish loading taskbar when their PC first boots up to the desktop, but a new Beta build has the cure.

A killer new Windows 11 feature could be coming later this year, the ability to receive a security update without having to reboot your PC.

Never mind Cocreator, Paint might get far more in-depth image creation chops where you can sketch out the composition you want, then let the AI go to work.

The good news is that Microsoft has acknowledged this bug and is knocking up a fix, with a workaround already provided for Windows 11 23H2 and 22H2.

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Microsoft will automatically update Windows 11 devices to the recent 23H2 version of the Operating System, with its 'intelligent ML model' in charge.

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Want to ban the news feed from the widget panel? Now you can, and the latest preview builds also introduce a smart accessibility feature.

Microsoft's latest brainwave is a YouTube clip for Windows 11 that appears to be a couple of years too late, and badly misjudged in other respects.

Color Management is getting an overhaul in Windows 11 to make it easier to setup new profiles and customize your display and apps for the best results.

Windows 11 24H2 is coming with a new 'POPCNT' instruction that'll certainly pop the bubble of anyone running Microsoft's OS on a potato PC from yesteryear.