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  1. Windows 11 Dev Channel Build 26200.5761: Copilot tweaks, UI polish, and reliability fixes

    Microsoft has released a fresh Dev Channel drop for Windows Insiders — Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5761 (KB5064093) — a compact cumulative update that continues the platform’s steady cadence of UI polish, Copilot-era tweaks, and reliability fixes while keeping several features gated...
  2. Edge 139.0.3405.111: Copilot Chat Summarization in Context Menu + On-Device AI

    Microsoft's latest Stable release of Edge, version 139.0.3405.111, quietly brings a small but useful productivity tweak — Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat Summarization baked directly into the right-click context menu — alongside a roster of bug fixes and performance refinements that continue Edge’s...
  3. 10 Windows Privacy Tweaks to Reduce Telemetry and Surprises

    Windows ships with a lot of sensible defaults — and a surprising number of questionable ones — and MakeUseOf’s recent roundup of “10 Windows settings I never leave on default” is a useful checklist for anyone who values privacy, stability, and fewer surprise interruptions. This feature pulls...
  4. Windows 11 Start Menu Copilot Prompts: AI Nudges or OS Promotion?

    Microsoft’s latest round of Start menu experiments surfaces a familiar irritation: Microsoft is testing a Copilot recommendation in the Start menu’s Recommended area that functions — for all practical purposes — as another nudge to use Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot from inside Windows 11...
  5. Microsoft Tests Copilot Prompts in Windows 11 Start Menu

    Microsoft has begun quietly testing Copilot-related recommendations inside the Windows 11 Start menu’s Recommended area — a move that places Microsoft’s AI assistant directly at the moment users choose what to do next and that, in practice, functions like a promotional surface for both the...
  6. WUSA Regression and WSUS Issues: Enterprise Patching with KIR Mitigations

    Microsoft has pushed a targeted rollback and policy fixes to repair a Windows Update Standalone Installer (WUSA) regression that could break .msu installations when run from network shares and disrupt enterprise update pipelines that rely on WSUS, SCCM, or scripted WUSA deployment. d delivery...
  7. Store updates now pause-only on Windows 11/10; permanent off removed

    Microsoft has quietly changed how the Microsoft Store handles app updates on Windows 11 and Windows 10: the long-standing option to permanently turn off automatic app updates in the Store UI is being removed for many users, and instead the Store now only offers time-limited pause options...
  8. Notepad Gets Compact, File Explorer–Style Context Menu for Quick Edits

    Microsoft has taken a long-running complaint about Notepad’s overstuffed right‑click menu seriously: Insiders are now seeing a compact, File Explorer–style context menu that surfaces core edit actions in a single top row while keeping AI and less‑used commands below — a move that trims pointer...
  9. Settings vs Control Panel in Windows 11: Migration and power-user tips

    Microsoft’s slow UI migration has an unexpected side effect: the Settings app often buries advanced controls behind extra clicks while the decades-old Control Panel still surfaces them instantly, and that reality makes many power users—and the author of a recent piece—reach for the Control Panel...
  10. Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5751: UI polish, Copilot flows, stability

    Microsoft’s newest Dev Channel drop for Insiders — Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5751 (identified as KB5064071 in community reporting) — is a compact, iterative update that prioritizes UI polish, stability fixes and targeted productivity improvements rather than headline-grabbing...
  11. Fix ‘Please Update Your AMD Radeon Driver’ with Clean Install & Update Blocking

    “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...
  12. Control Windows Updates: Pause, Metered, Active Hours, and More

    Windows’ update machinery is useful — and infuriating — in equal measure, and for many users the practical question isn’t whether updates are important but how to stop them from interrupting work, breaking drivers, or forcing unwanted restarts. The VOI.ID how‑to is a typical quick primer on the...
  13. Windows 11 Taskbar Gets Microsoft 365 Companion Apps: People, File Search, Calendar

    Microsoft has begun pushing three lightweight Microsoft 365 “companion” apps — People, File Search, and Calendar — directly into the Windows 11 taskbar for eligible Microsoft 365 business customers, delivering one‑click access to contacts, documents and meetings without opening full clients and...