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These dotted lines started appearing in my games yesterday (only in games). They always appear in the same position and adjust to the size of the window. I think it has something to do with the Game Bar application, but I'm not sure. The laptop is a Lenovo Yoga 7i 2-in-1 (16-inch, Gen 9). The...

The Linux kernel community has closed a small but important correctness hole in SquashFS: a recent patch makes squashfs_read_inode explicitly reject negative file sizes, returning EINVAL when a malformed image claims a negative size. The change addresses a Syskaller-discovered warning in...

Where Winds Meet launched to wide interest and equally wide teething problems on PC: players report crashes on startup, mid-game freezes during combat or cutscenes, and random exits to the desktop. This feature distills the practical fixes that actually work, explains why the crashes happen...

Microsoft’s little lighting trick for video calls has arrived on Windows fast — not as an OS feature but as a tidy, open-source utility that does exactly one thing well: turn your monitor into a ring light. What started as a macOS beta feature has already inspired a Windows version from a...

Microsoft’s PowerToys gives you a built‑in, officially supported way to add an onscreen crosshair to your Windows desktop — no shady downloads required — and it’s already the simplest and safest option for multi‑monitor setups, accessibility needs, or games that don’t let you customize the...

Microsoft’s Edge Game Assist just widened its gaming remit and picked up a handful of practical quality‑of‑life fixes in an October update that’s rolling out to Edge Insiders — and the changes are worth a closer look if you play on Windows 11 or manage gaming PCs at scale. Background / Overview...

Microsoft has begun rolling out Gaming Copilot (Beta) to Windows PCs via the Xbox Game Bar, an in‑overlay AI assistant that promises real‑time, voice‑first help, screenshot‑aware guidance, achievement tracking, and personalized game recommendations — with mobile Xbox app support scheduled for...

Microsoft has begun rolling out Gaming Copilot — an AI-powered, in‑overlay assistant for players — into Windows 11 via the Xbox Game Bar, bringing voice-first help, screenshot-aware guidance, achievement tracking, and personalized recommendations directly into the play session. Background and...

Microsoft has pushed Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27943 to the Canary Channel — a compact, maintenance‑focused flight that addresses several user‑facing annoyances while flagging two significant deployment blockers Insiders and developers must weigh before installing. Background / Overview...

Microsoft has quietly reworked the Xbox app on Windows 11 into a genuine one‑stop hub for PC gaming, and the implications reach well beyond a refreshed launcher: the app now aggregates installed titles from multiple storefronts, lets you launch non‑Microsoft games without opening third‑party...

Microsoft’s long‑promised AI sidekick for players is finally rolling into the PC Game Bar: Xbox’s Gaming Copilot — marketed simply as Xbox Copilot or Gaming Copilot (Beta) — is being deployed to Windows PC users via the Xbox Game Bar starting today, with an Xbox mobile release planned for...

Microsoft’s Click To Do is the kind of small change that can quietly rearrange how you work: a system-level overlay that turns whatever is on your screen—text, images, even tables—into actionable items you can edit, summarize, or hand off to Copilot, all without leaving the context of your...

Roblox’s Shift Lock is a simple-but-powerful camera tool — when it works. For many Windows players the Shift Lock camera either refuses to engage or behaves erratically, leaving third-person movement and precision aiming unusable. The good news: most Shift Lock problems on Windows 10/11 have...

Google’s experimental Windows app aims to remove the friction of switching windows to look something up — a floating, Spotlight‑like search bar you summon with Alt + Space that can search local files, installed apps, Google Drive, and the web, and that folds in Google Lens and the company’s AI...

Microsoft has quietly repurposed the Xbox button on gamepads when used with Windows 11 Insiders: a long press now opens Task View while a short press still launches the Game Bar, and a press-and-hold continues to power down the controller — a small but practical tweak rolling out to Dev and Beta...

If your Snipping Tool keeps popping up unexpectedly on Windows 11, that small interruption can quickly become a productivity drain — especially when you’re typing, gaming, or presenting. This is a surprisingly common complaint and, in most cases, the cause is a conflict between screenshot...

“Please update your AMD Radeon driver” is almost always a symptom, not a root cause — a game or app has detected either an outdated or mismatched driver string and refuses to run. The message commonly appears after Windows Update silently replaces a manufacturer-tuned Adrenalin package with a...

A tiny green halo that flashes when you copy from a terminal may sound like a cute UI trick, but it addresses a surprisingly common pain point: not knowing whether what you selected actually made it to the clipboard. Microsoft PowerToys may soon offer exactly that — a proposed module called...

Microsoft has quietly moved its Copilot brain into two places gamers and creators will notice first: the Windows Game Bar as Gaming Copilot (Beta) for Xbox Insiders, and Copilot 3D inside Copilot Labs for instant 2D→3D conversions — changes that make Microsoft’s Copilot a practical tool for both...

The AI-powered revolution in PC gaming now has a new flagship: Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot. Quietly unveiled to Windows 11 beta testers, this innovative feature promises to become the ultimate digital sidekick for gamers, offering context-aware assistance inside any supported title. By seamlessly...