Operating Systems
Latest about Operating Systems
How to emulate an original Apple Macintosh in your browser
By Les Pounder published
As the Apple Macintosh celebrates its 40th birthday we show you how to emulate the classic machine via your browser. For good measure we also emulate the last of the PowerPC era Macs.
Windows 11 installer squeezed into a mere 100MB using text-only trick by NTDEV
By Roshan Ashraf Shaikh published
Should we colloquially call this 'MS-DOS 11.0'?
I survived a scary Blue Screen of Death, the dreaded Kernel Security Check Failure. Here's how.
By Avram Piltch published
After some investigation, I found an easy fix to this perplexing Windows error.
Microsoft sets 16GB default for RAM for AI PCs
By Mark Tyson published
Microsoft has a number of new minimum specification levels lined up for AI PCs, and sources indicate that Windows machines certified to run Copilot will need 16GB RAM and 40 TOPS compute performance.
Driver hack lets you run Linux after Windows BSODs, no reboot required
By Matthew Connatser published
Someone has created a driver that sends Windows users to a Linux emulator if they encounter a blue screen of death crash.
Linux dev delivers a 6% file system performance increase with five minutes work
By Mark Tyson published
Jens Axboe, the developer of IO_uring for Linux, delivers software patches that provide a 6% file system performance increase – says the coding ‘was literally a 5 min job’
New Windows 11 Insider Build autostarts Copilot AI assistant
By Christopher Harper published
Released on January 11th, 2024, the latest Windows 11 Insider Build provides support for USB4 80 Gbps, autostart functionality on AI Copilot, and minor fixes to Task Manager and Windows Share.
Microsoft KB5034441 Windows 10 security patch for BitLocker bypass is leading to errors and has a complicated fix
By Mark Tyson published
Microsoft's KB5034441 Windows 10 security patch for an easy-to-exploit BitLocker bypass vulnerability fails for some users unless a manual partition resizing operation is completed first.
Stay on the Cutting Edge
Join the experts who read Tom's Hardware for the inside track on enthusiast PC tech news — and have for over 25 years. We'll send breaking news and in-depth reviews of CPUs, GPUs, AI, maker hardware and more straight to your inbox.