Tag: windows
Windows 11 desktop becomes a full-page Harry Potter ad — and Bing Wallpaper users rebel by uninstalling the app in droves
The Bing Wallpaper app is serving an ad in Windows 11 The advert is for a Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts movie collection There’s a rebellion against this blatant advertising, with a significant number of users saying they’ve immediately removed Microsoft’s wallpaper app Some Windows 11 users who’ve installed the…
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Microsoft is finally going to stop nagging you to back up your files to OneDrive in Windows 11
Microsoft has made a welcome change to OneDrive in Windows 11 Prompts to use the backup service can now be permanently dismissed The change has been positively received by most users online There have been complaints about this going back years, but Microsoft has finally caved in and decided to…
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‘Took me months to work this out’: Redditor explains how Windows 11 can end up stripping out the GPU driver on your gaming laptop
Windows 11 can remove a discrete GPU driver as part of its clean-up routines, as shown on Reddit This can happen if the laptop has been in Eco mode for an extended period Because the GPU is effectively gated off from the system, the driver is marked as unused and…
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Microsoft is massively improving Windows 11’s right-click menu — but it should have been like this from the start
Windows 11’s right-click menu has some big changes in testing This context menu is being streamlined and is now more responsive You can also customize the entries in the menu, or even switch it to be like Windows 10’s version Microsoft is finally streamlining Windows 11‘s context menu — the…
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1 in 3 Windows users have ‘fallen into a reset trap’ and can’t escape Edge — I think it’s high time Microsoft stopped messing around with default browser choices
Microsoft is again under fire for aggressively pushing Edge A survey conducted by the Browser Choice Alliance shows how deep some problems run That includes encountering ‘challenges’ while attempting to change default browsers, and users who get stuck with Edge when they don’t want it Microsoft has again come under…
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Microsoft reportedly pours fuel on PC pricing flames as it implements a ‘significant increase’ for Windows 11 licenses
Microsoft has hiked the cost of a Windows 11 license for PC makers A new report claims that the annual price increase is ‘significantly’ more this year That’s really not going to help the PC market, coming on top of all the pain with hardware price rises that we’re already…
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