Windows 11

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Old laptops
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Microsoft Surface Laptops

Microsoft releases official Windows 11 ISO for Arm devices

By Hassam Nasir published

Microsoft has released a Windows 11 ISO build for Arm based PCs after many months of waiting.

Operating Systems
local Linux web server in Windows

How to run a local Linux web server running in a Windows 11 window

By Avram Piltch published

Windows Subsystem for Linux lets run an Apache web server on your Windows PC. Here's how to do it.

Linux
Windows 11

Windows 11 gains momentum with over 35% market share as Microsoft pushes for upgrades

By Kunal Khullar published

Windows 11 market share reached an all-time high of 35.58% as per Statcounter's latest report from October 2024

Windows
Windows 11

Microsoft again delays Recall feature

By Anton Shilov published

Microsoft says Recall will be available for Windows Insiders in December.

Operating Systems
Core Ultra 200S CPU

Z890 motherboards are having instability issues with Windows 11 24H2

By Christopher Harper published

Intel Z890 motherboards have issues with the latest Windows 11 update and Intel Xe iGPUs.

CPUs
Windows 11

Windows 11 Version 24H2 updates are faster and require less CPU usage

By Hassam Nasir published

Microsoft's Windows 11 24H2 has many underlying optimizations that net users large performance gains when installing future Windows Updates.

Windows
Western Digital SSD

Western Digital releases fix for Windows 11 24H2 BSODs

By Hassam Nasir published

Users facing BSODs when updating their WD/SanDisk SSD-equipped systems to Windows 11 24H2 are strongly recommended to update their SSDs' firmware.

SSDs

Tiny11 now supports Windows 11 24H2 in a compact size that will fit on a standard single-layer DVD

By Aaron Klotz published

Tiny11 has been used to shrink a Windows 11 24H2 install to just 3.5GB, making it small enough to run off of a standard DVD.

Windows

Western Digital NVMe SSD users beware: Windows 11 24H2 is causing BSODs unless you tweak your registry

By Christopher Harper published

A major Windows 11 24H2 issue is crashing Western Digital SSDs.

External SSDs

Microsoft says the undeletable 8.63GB cache in Windows 11 24H2 is “a reporting error”

By Jowi Morales published

Microsoft says that the undeletable 8.63GB cache is actually freed up already; the reason it appears on the Disk Cleanup app is a "reporting error."

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