Microsoft Store getting a much-needed speed boost 'in the near future' As Microsoft migrates their own apps away from UWP, performance gains follow. By Mikael Markander and Joel Lee 19 hours ago
Windows Media Player loses the ability to play DRM media on older PCs Either upgrade to Windows 10/11 or install another media player app on your PC. By Mikael Markander 3 days ago
Microsoft makes good on promise to speed up Windows 11 apps A new beta version of the Windows App SDK brings significant performance boosts to Windows 11 apps. By Mikael Markander and Joel Lee 3 days ago
Pinning apps to the Windows 11 taskbar is getting easier A new app-pinning feature flew under the radar in a recent Windows Insider update. By Mikael Markander and Joel Lee 1 week ago
Microsoft finally adding long-awaited features to Outlook for Windows A collection of new features and improvements are coming to the new Outlook app this year. By Mikael Markander 3 weeks ago
Finally! Windows will let your webcam work in multiple apps at once In the major update coming later this year, Windows 11 will finally stop throwing errors when multiple apps use your camera at the same time. By Mikael Markander and Joel Lee 4 weeks ago
Windows can finally make fatter FAT32 drives, up to 2TB in size Up until now, Windows capped out at 32GB when formatting drives using FAT32. By Joel Lee and Mikael Markander 1 month ago
Netflix's Windows app takes huge step backwards in latest update Not only does the new Netflix app for Windows remove a crucial feature, it's basically no different than opening netflix.com in a browser. By Mikael Markander 2 months ago
Chrome now warns of resource-hogging tabs — here's how to enable it The new feature is currently hidden in the latest beta version of the Google Chrome browser. By Mikael Markander 2 months ago
FreeDOS turns 30 and may soon get full support for Windows 3.x Want to explore what MS-DOS was like back in the day? You can still do so with FreeDOS. By Mikael Markander 3 months ago
Is your taskbar suddenly crashing? Blame the latest Windows update Windows update KB5037853 rolled out helpful new features - and broke the taskbar for some people. A fix will now be sent out to affected users. By Mikael Markander and Brad Chacos 4 months ago
Chivalry 2 is the free game of the week on Epic Games Store Epic Games continues to bring killer free games to our gaming PCs. By Mikael Markander 4 months ago
Dolby Digital audio support is disappearing from Windows 11 If you need to reinstall Windows 11 from scratch, you can no longer play files with Dolby Digital's AC-3 codec. By Mikael Markander 4 months ago
Opera adds support for Google’s Gemini AI model In addition, Opera One users can test two new AI features at no cost. By Mikael Markander 4 months ago
YouTube is acting weird for Adblock users Users report that YouTube clips skip to the end or play without sound if you have an ad blocker enabled. By Mikael Markander and Brad Chacos 4 months ago
The Epic Games Store is giving away Farming Simulator 22 for free Epic Games continues to bring free games to our PCs, with Farming Simulator 22 continuing the Epic Mega Sale giveaways. By Mikael Markander 4 months ago
You can now limit how much memory Microsoft Edge uses Want to restrict Microsoft Edge from eating all your RAM? There's a new slider you can use to choose how many gigabytes Microsoft Edge can occupy. By Mikael Markander 4 months ago
Modder gets Windows XP to run on 1989 computer A modder created a version of Windows XP that runs on Intel 486 processors and made the ISO file available to download on the Internet Archive. By Mikael Markander 4 months ago