Category: Windows 11

If some game in Windows 11 or Windows 10 requires DirectPlay, you need to download and install it. You don't need to download anything from the Internet manually. Instead, let the operating system to do everything itself.

Windows 11 allows you to change the cursor theme along the cursor size and color. Besides the appearance of the mouse pointer, you can also customize the look of the text indicator.

Windows 11 comes with a pair of default background images known as "Bloom". The images are of the two color schemes to fit the light and dark themes, respectively. Microsoft is about to change the defaults and please users with stunning images that will change automatically. Windows 11 may start using Windows Spotlight by default instead of the static image.

Microsoft today released a new preview patch to the Release Preview channel. It is Build 22000.651, coming as KB5012643. It comes with a laundry of various changes, and is notable for security and performance improvements.

From very beginning with Windows 11, Microsoft was stating that the new Widgets feature will support third-party mini apps. However, we are now close to the release of Windows 11 22H2, and yet it lacks third-party widget support. This situation finally changes.

Microsoft released a new build version of Windows 11 on Wednesday, which at a glance doesn't include major changes. But if you look closely, there is an interesting new feature in the Task Manager. If you like keyboard shortcut, you will be happy to learn a new portion of hotkeys the app received yesterday.

In Windows 11, the Groove Music app evolved into a new Media Player  app. Microsoft is now actively working on further improving the latter. Eventually it will be an in-place replacement for the legacy Windows Media Player. The current update is a small step closer to this direction.

Microsoft today released a new preview build to Insiders in the Dev and Beta channels. Windows 11 build 22598 comes with Spotlight enabled by default for a select group of users. Other notable changes are an updated sound speaker tooltip that shows if Spatial Sound is enabled or not, and the "Get started" app will start automatically to guide the user through setting essentials.

Microsoft has finally made the option to change the default browser available to everyone. It was directly backported from the upcoming 22H2 release of Windows 11. In the stable branch, it was first introduced with KB5011563 preview patch. Now, it is generally available.