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To disable Microsoft account notifications on Windows 10, open Settings > Privacy > General , and turn off “Show me suggested content in the Settings app,” “Show me account-related notifications. When Off, required notifications are still shown,” and from the “Start” settings, turn off “Show account-related notifications. When off, required notifications are still shown.” Windows … Read more

Windows 11 is about two and a half years old and still has many interface inconsistencies. Microsoft continues to push updates to address this problem. However, the priority has shifted to AI and adding (half-baked) features. (And I don’t like it.) The company first launched the operating system on October 5, 2021, and when Panos … Read more

The Start menu in the Beta Channel gets a new account manager to view your account benefits and alerts. The Settings Home page adds a new Game Pass promotion card besides the Microsoft 365 and Copilot Pro cards. Windows 11 build 26200 rolls out in the Canary Channel with minor improvements. UPDATED 4/22/2024: On April … Read more

Microsoft is aggressively putting more ads across the Windows 11 desktop, and this behavior of trying to monetize the operating system threatens the user experience. If we look back to the pre-pandemic era, Windows wasn’t even a priority for Microsoft anymore, as the company was thriving with its cloud services (Azure primarily), such as Azure … Read more

GParted is a free, open-source, fully-featured tool based on Linux designed to manage disk partitions. Using this tool, you can create, delete, copy, resize, move, or label partitions with different file systems, such as NTFS, btrfs, ext2/3/4, f2fs, FAT16/32, hfs/hfs+, linux-swap, luks, lvm2 pv, nilfs2, reiserfs/4, udf, ufs, and xfs. Although Windows 11 and 10 … Read more

During the annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, the company demonstrated new advances in AI (Artificial Intelligence) and machine learning with an app called “Project Adam” that enables Cortana to identify real world objects. The demo by Microsoft shows a person simply asking Cortana: “What kind of dog is this?” , Cortana then ask to take a … Read more

The chances of you needing to run Windows 95 on an Android Wear smartwatch are pretty low, to none. But it doesn’t matter, it feels good to know you can… Or at least that’s what this 16-year-old thinks. Although, the Samsung Gear Live features a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor, 512NB of RAM, 4GB of storage, and … Read more

Windows 10 Technical Preview (build 9926) is the latest release of the next version of Microsoft’s operating system. This new preview includes a number of features and enhancements over the previous release, which was build 9879 . From top-to-bottom everything in Windows 10 build 9926 is new, as such to make more sense of what’s … Read more

Microsoft has just began rolling out the Xbox One February system update , the first update of 2015. The update for February brings tons of enhancements and features. First up, Microsoft is updating the Xbox One controller to connect to the console much faster, there is a new Game hubs, Party chat gets updated, the … Read more

Windows 11 build 22635.3566 (KB5037002) introduces an option to manage the Copilot button on hover. Rolls back behavior for the Show Desktop button so it’s enabled by default again in the Taskbar. You can now drag and drop files in the File Explorer address bar breadcrumbs. And the All Apps menu receives some visual tweaks. … Read more