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  1. WordPad Retired in Windows 11 24H2: What It Means for Lightweight Editing

    Microsoft quietly pulled the plug on WordPad — the lightweight rich‑text editor that's been bundled with Windows since the Windows 95 era — when Windows 11 version 24H2 rolled out, moving the app to Microsoft’s official Deprecated Features list and removing its binaries from fresh OS images...
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  2. Windows 11 Canary Build 27965 Adds Edit CLI Editor and Moves .NET 3.5 FoD

    Microsoft’s latest Canary-channel preview for Windows 11 folds a long‑requested developer convenience into the OS while quietly changing how legacy runtimes are delivered: Build 27965 adds a small, open‑source command‑line editor called Edit (invoked simply by typing edit in Terminal) and...
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  3. Microsoft Copilot Study: AI Is Reshaping Knowledge Work Today

    Microsoft’s analysis of actual Copilot usage — drawn from roughly 200,000 anonymized conversations — offers one of the clearest snapshots yet of where today’s generative AI is already reshaping work: not in factories or on construction sites, but squarely in the cognitive, language‑heavy heart...
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    • Forum: Windows News

  4. Visual Studio 2022 v17.14.13: Debounced and On-Demand Copilot Controls for Quieter AI Coding

    Microsoft has quietly handed developers more control over how much assistance GitHub Copilot asserts in the editor, adding several practical toggles and workflow options in the August 2025 Visual Studio update so that suggestions appear on developers’ terms rather than at every keystroke...
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    • Forum: Windows News

  5. Microsoft’s New ‘Edit’ Text Editor on Windows: A Developer’s Next-Gen CLI Tool

    When Microsoft unveiled its new “Edit” text editor at its annual Build conference, it sent an unambiguous signal that foundational tools for Windows developers are due for a thoughtful refresh. The arrival of Edit on Windows, a text editor designed specifically to integrate with the command line...
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  6. Windows 11 How do you change the font color in Vim editor?

    You can change color schemes at anytime in vi by typing colorscheme followed by a space and the name of the color scheme. For more color schemes, you can browse this library on the vim website. You can enable or disable colors by simply typing “syntax on” or “syntax off” in vi.

  7. VIDEO Our best features to help you save time, stay organized and do more of what you love

    Spring is here, and with this season comes a feeling of growth and change. Especially with all that has been happening in the world, this season has me thinking about everything I am grateful for and the things that keep me grounded: connecting with loved ones near and far, making the most of...
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    Windows 10 Windows 10 PC Screenshot Editor

    I noticed after installing the latest Windows 10 update that the Paint app is gone. What app replaces it? I sometimes need to take, edit, and share screenshots from the PC. Please advise. Thanks! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Windows 7 How to get Registry value from old, mounted, offline Win 7 ?

    Assume I have mounted a Windows 7 image file (ISO or Aomei Backupper or TrueImage) to drive letter T: This Windows 7 is NOT the active, currently running one but an old backup archive file. Now I want to get a certain Registry value from this image resp. old Win 7. How can I achieve this? All...
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    Clipboard Paste Issues with Specific Characters in Borland C Console Editor

    When using an old console editor, compiled with Borland C, I find that some characters do not paste from the clipboard, viz: ) * + : ; < = > ? @ ^ l (upper case L is ok!). All paste ok in other console applications, and when using the legacy console! Does anyone have an...
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    Best Apps for Adding Multiple Subtitle Languages to DVDs Without Re-encoding

    Do you know of a good app that i can add more subtitle language choices to video dvd without re-encoding the original dvd?
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    • app dvd editor encoding language media software subtitles video
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    • Forum: Windows Software

  12. How to publish your Unity game as a UWP app

    Unity is a fantastic utility for creating graphically-rich high-performance games and apps. Using the editor, you can quickly create 2D and 3D worlds, and define interactions, game logic and physics rules in easy-to-understand C# scripts. Apps created by Unity run on multiple platforms...
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    Best Picture Editor.

    What is the best editor in your opinion ? :)

  14. Disabling the Windows 10 Upgrade Notification

    Using the registry editor, you can block the Windows 10 upgrade notification. read more Continue reading...
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  15. Visual Studio Extension that helps you create Visual Studio Extensions

    Mads Kristensen is back, today with a VS Extension that will help VS Extension builders build Extensions. That is so meta I had to highlight, even through it's currently at v0.2 (might be at 0.3, 0.4 by the time you read this... :) Speaking of Mads, are are few other recent times we've...
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  16. The Open Sourcing of TouchDevelop

    I've highlighted Link Removed just a few times... TouchDevelop to Arduino TouchDevelop v3 - WinPhone 8, Speech, NFC, Tiles and much more... Reach out and touch the net with TouchDevelop and MaKey MaKey Develop for Windows Phone, with Windows Phone... TouchDevelop Getting in touch with...
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  17. Windows 7 Windows Local Policy Editor

    Hey , i have Windows 7 Ultimate and i want to set it so other admin users cant install programs. I have launched the Windows Local Policy Editor and i tried to find the line with the install field with no success. Can someone tell me what is the name of the field that consists of installing...
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    • admins configuration editor installed programs local policy permissions security user management windows 7
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    • Forum: Windows Software

  18. An update is available to enable the use of Local ADMX files for Group Policy Editor

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  19. Windows 7 Group policy editor not working

    I have windows home premium 64 bit and did the gpedit_msc install, copied the required folders to the system32 folder but it seems like almost all the settings in group policy don't kick in when I apply them. For instance, I enabled the "prevent access to command prompt" yet all users can still...
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    Windows 8 Find the local group policy editor

    Hi In all editions of Windows 8, there is the local group policy editor? If so, how do I find it? Thanks Bye