Category: Windows – General

  • Windows 10 will be unavailable for purchase January 31

    Windows 10 will be unavailable for purchase January 31

    Microsoft released a retail version of Windows 10 on July 2015 as the first Windows to be Windows as a Service. It was named under version 1507. Windows 10 brought the following changes: Since then, Microsoft has released various versions of Windows 10 to bring new features and improvements to the operating system. On October…

  • Good riddance, Windows 8.1!

    Good riddance, Windows 8.1!

    Windows 8.1 was released on October 17th, 2013, a year after the retail release of Windows 8.0, which was October 26th, 2012. Windows 8.0 was criticized because its user interface was confusing and difficult to learn due to its over-optimization for tablet PCs. We have previously written about the shortcomings of Windows 8, and we’ll…

  • Final reminder for Windows 7’s extended support end

    Final reminder for Windows 7’s extended support end

    We have previously pinpointed our point of Windows 7’s end of support, which happened at January 14th, 2020. Microsoft, at the time, planned extended security updates to offer further security improvements to Windows 7 Professional and Enterprise editions for business users until January 10th, 2023. The prices for the three years of the extended security…

  • Windows 11 22H2 released

    Windows 11 was out in October 5th, 2021, and it featured aesthetical changes from the desktop to the new Windows logo to the new button looks to the new Mica design language. Since then, it has been getting updates over and over again as time passed, like the recent September 2022 patch. Today sets the…

  • Windows 8, the most hated version

    Windows 8.1 was released to manufacturing in August 27, 2013, and fully out to markets for retail sale in October 17, 2013. It was out to fix some of the problems the users, especially the Windows traditionalists, reported when Windows 8.0 was released back in October 26, 2012. However, this release didn’t justify the hate…

  • Installing Windows Cumulative Update on a System that Didn’t Get Updated for More Than a Month

    Each month, a Windows 10/11 cumulative update gets pushed to the supported versions of these systems and is available to download and install either through Windows Update that you can access in Settings > Updates & Security, or through the standalone offline update package, .msu. Microsoft specifically says that if you have the latest cumulative…

  • Windows 11 released!

    You all know that Windows 10 was, according to Microsoft, the last version of Windows that keeps getting updated through feature and quality updates. However, it seems that they have changed their minds after six years. There was a cancelled project called Windows 10X that was initially designed for touchscreen devices. It was then designed…

  • Windows 11 is about to arrive. Are you ready?

    It’s been a while since we’ve talked about Windows 11 and our thoughts about the first real leaked build. Earlier, we’ve showcased Windows 11 and its new features we’ve discovered so far, and other people did that, too, along with some extra discoveries. However, Microsoft have come to the conclusion that this new generation of…

  • Exploring Windows 11 (Part 4)

    We’re back with the fourth part of the Windows 11 exploration, but we’ve promised that we’ll go deep to the point of finding bugs. Let’s see what we have to offer for this part. New feature in Task Manager Windows 11’s Task Manager shows three extra columns for the Details tab which shows the detailed…

  • Exploring Windows 11 (part 3)

    So, we’re on the third part of the exploration of the leaked build of Windows 11. In this part, we’re going to explore some more features and key changes in settings, especially the desktop appearance, and the system in general. Windows Widgets If you think that Windows Widgets is the same as the good old…

  • Exploring Windows 11 (part 2)

    We have explored the installation part of Windows 11 on the first part of the exploration. Now, we’ll take a look at the applications and explain it briefly one by one: Did you see all of the pictures showcasing some of the Windows 11 applications? Great! Now, we’ll explain some of these applications one by…

  • Windows 11 announced

    One week after the Windows 11 leak, Microsoft have announced the next-generation operating system, Windows 11, through the “What’s next for Windows” live event. Microsoft have revealed that this operating system would support Android apps. It also has design and feature changes, including the revamped start menu, centered taskbar, new designs, and so on. The…

  • Exploring Windows 11 (part 1)

    A few days ago, we’ve talked about Windows 11 that got leaked in a Chinese forum website, which spread to the entire world. Various people started installing and testing it either on their virtual machines, or on their test machines. Like we said, this isn’t a final version yet. Microsoft have confirmed (via DMCA complaint)…

  • Visual Studio 2022 Preview 1 released

    Recently, Microsoft announced that they’re going to make the first preview of Visual Studio 2022 available to developers who would like to try out the new features of it. One of the striking features of this version of Visual Studio is that it will be 64-bit for the first time. However, not all the features…

  • Windows 11 leaked

    On Tuesday, June 15, the first screenshots for Microsoft’s upcoming operating system, called Windows 11, first surfaced in Baidu, the Chinese search engine. After few moments, the entire operating system was leaked. Microsoft will hold an event for Windows on June 24, and one of the possibilities that will come is that Windows 11 will…

  • We’ve exaggerated in our report about drivers

    Did you remember the post that we’ve made about obscure “drivers?” Well, we’ve made our research and found that an Intel display driver version (27.20.100.8853) is the one that is causing gameplay problems like some of them crashing, some stuttering, and more. One or all of them are the culprits: Intel Corporation – Extension –…

  • Suspected obscure “drivers” should be blacklisted from every Intel PC

    It has recently come to our attention that the following obscure updates are making sure that you lose your ability to run some of the recent games on some PCs, especially when you use your inbuilt GPU as your main GPU for gaming: Intel – SoftwareComponent – 1.38.2020.805 Intel – SoftwareComponent – 1.61.251.0 Intel Corporation…

  • How did we get the old computer back up? Ep. 1

    We’re starting the series with the brief explanation of how it works. It’s called “How did we get the old computer back up.” It talks about the working method to fix a problem on our old computer, whether it’s running Windows, Debian, or Linux operating systems. It also teaches you how to fix the problem…

  • Windows 7 has reached end of support, but we still support its customers for our apps

    Windows 7 support has reached to the end Windows 7 has launched in 2009 when people used Windows XP to customize it with themes, system hacks, etc. When people finally saw that Windows 7 is released, they have tried it out to find that it fixes all Vista’s problems, like lack of stability, more bloat,…

  • Dell Optiplex 7060 tested with Windows 10, version 1903 (pt. 1)

    Windows 10 May 2019 update, version 1903, recently released with the compile date of March 2019, according to the build tag, much like you see in beta versions of Windows. It has new features, including allowing users to select either the light or dark modes of the taskbar found at the bottom of the desktop,…

  • Dell Optiplex 7060 tested with Windows 10, version 1903 (pt. 2)

    This is the second part of this article, where it proves that Dell Optiplex 7060 is tested with Windows 10, version 1903. Since 1909 came, we will upgrade to it soon. Drivers So we’re starting with the Drivers that the update installed. Almost all of the drivers are intact, but some of them, like the…

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