Category: Windows 11

Microsoft Edge gets major feature updates every four weeks. These updates usually bring helpful features and quality improvements, but they often annoy users by resetting settings and changing search engines. Moreover, users recently accused Microsoft of messing with third-party browsers after a Windows update changed the default search engine in Chrome from Google to Bing.

Microsoft released another PowerToys update with three new tools and many improvements. Version 0.55 also contains various under-the-hood optimizations in preparations to make PowerToys ARM64-ready. Here is what is new in PowerToys 0.55.

Microsoft tracks the state of Windows devices connected to the Internet. Despite receiving updates automatically, Microsoft's stats shows that there is a bunch of devices that are not on the actual Windows 10 release, or don't have the most recent patches installed.

Nando Costa, the lead designer at Microsoft Design, revealed that the promised 3D emojis Microsoft failed to deliver might come to Windows 11 after all.

Trusted Platform Module (or TPM) is one of the Windows 11 hardware requirements. If you want to run Windows 11 and receive regular updates, your computer must have either a software or hardware-based TPM 2.0 module. We have a dedicated article here on Winaero that describes how to enable TPM on Intel and AMD systems. The latter reportedly suffer from intermittent stutters and performance issues when users turn on TPM.

After skipping December 2021, AdDuplex is back with another monthly report, revealing the latest data about Windows market share. January 2022 statistics show Windows 11 steadily growing in numbers, effectively doubling its power since the last time we met.

Yesterday, Microsoft released a new Windows 11 preview build. It contains no groundbreaking changes, but there are a few notable things and quality-of-life improvements.

Sometimes you need to check Windows 11 restart time without installing third party apps, e.g. in a restricted environment. For that case, we will show you a small trick that lets you learn how much time Windows 11 takes to restart.

In the previously released Windows 11 build 22533, Microsoft has finally redesigned the ancient ten-year-old volume indicator. Windows 11 no longer annoys its users with a Windows 8-styled volume slider. But the work on updating media flyouts in Windows 11 is not over. The latest preview build of Windows 11 brings two more changes. First, the volume slider now displays the level in numbers. Second, there are new media controls on the lock screen.