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Microsoft’s latest Insider builds quietly adopt two pragmatic tweaks to File Explorer — an optional background “preload” that makes first opens feel near-instant, and a decluttered right‑click menu that tucks seldom‑used commands into nested flyouts — changes that aim to improve day‑to‑day...

Microsoft is quietly testing two small but consequential changes to File Explorer in Windows 11 — a background preload designed to make first launches feel nearly instant, and a decluttered right‑click context menu that tucks rarely used commands into nested flyouts — both appearing in Insider...

Microsoft has quietly started pruning one of Windows 11’s most persistent irritants: the File Explorer right‑click context menu. The November Insider build 26220.7271 (KB5070307) introduces a compact, grouped menu layout — led by an experimental “Manage file” flyout and nested cloud provider...

Microsoft’s console-style Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) has moved out of the ROG Ally’s launch window and into wider circulation: the mode is now generally available on all supported Windows handhelds in market and is rolling out in preview to laptops, tablets and desktops through the...

Microsoft is quietly testing a background “preload” for File Explorer in the latest Windows 11 Insider builds that promises to make folder windows appear almost instantly by warming key Explorer components ahead of time. Background File Explorer has long been one of the most-used and...

Microsoft is rolling its Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) out to a broader set of Windows 11 PCs via the latest Insider Preview, bringing a console‑style, controller‑first shell to desktops, laptops, and tablets running Build 26220.7271 (KB5070307). The feature — which first appeared on...

Microsoft has begun testing a background “preload” for File Explorer in Windows 11 — a deliberate engineering trade-off that keeps a warmed instance of the file manager resident so folder windows open nearly instantly — and the change is rolling out to Insiders in Build 26220.7271 (KB5070307)...

Microsoft’s new Point‑in‑time Restore introduces a short‑term, full‑system snapshot and rollback capability to Windows — a feature that can rewind a PC to an earlier working state (including the operating system, installed apps, configuration and many local files) without third‑party backup...

Microsoft quietly addressing File Explorer’s sluggish “cold start” in Windows 11 by preloading the app in memory is a small change with outsized practical impact — a pragmatic fix that promises near‑instant launches for many users while exposing meaningful trade‑offs for power, battery life, and...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Insider preview — Build 26220.7271 (KB5070307) — brings a mix of practical recovery tooling, controller‑first gaming polish, and usability tweaks that aim to reduce friction for both everyday users and IT pros, while also continuing Microsoft’s staged, device‑gated...

Microsoft is quietly testing a blunt — and controversial — fix for File Explorer’s long-standing sluggishness: keep parts of the file manager permanently warmed and resident in memory so folders open instantly. The change arrives in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7271 and is being rolled...

Microsoft is testing a blunt but pragmatic fix for the long‑standing problem of slow File Explorer launches in Windows 11: keep a warmed‑up instance of the File Explorer UI running in the background so the moment a user asks for a window it paints instantly. The change is part of the Windows...

Microsoft’s Xbox “Full Screen Experience” — the simplified, controller‑first shell that made the ROG Xbox Ally X feel more like a console than a raw Windows PC — is no longer an Ally exclusive: the feature has begun rolling out to a wider set of Windows 11 devices through the Windows Insider...

Microsoft’s latest Insider cumulative, released as Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7271 (KB5070307), delivers two of the most pragmatic changes Microsoft has teased in recent months: a short‑term, recoverable rollback called Point‑in‑Time Restore (PITR) and an on‑device improvement to...

Microsoft’s latest Insider cumulative — Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7271 (KB5070307) — landed in both the Dev and Beta channels with a quiet but meaningful set of refinements to File Explorer’s right‑click menu, an experimental background preload for Explorer windows, and a small but...

Microsoft is quietly changing how File Explorer starts: instead of continuing to rely on the visible window to initialize when you click an icon, Windows 11 will now optionally preload File Explorer in the background so that the app opens faster on first use — a change Microsoft is testing in...

Microsoft’s console-style Full Screen Experience (FSE) for Windows 11 handhelds is out of preview and rolling more broadly to Windows handhelds today, bringing a controller-first, Xbox-led full-screen shell to supported devices and giving handheld gamers an opt‑in path to boot directly into the...

Microsoft’s latest Insider preview (Build 26220.7271) pushes a cluster of practical, user-facing changes—most noticeably a controller-friendly Xbox full‑screen experience on more PCs, a new point‑in‑time restore recovery option, and a focused set of File Explorer refinements aimed at...

Microsoft has begun previewing the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) on a wider range of Windows 11 devices — not just handhelds — turning the Xbox PC app into an optional, console‑style, controller‑first shell for laptops, desktops, and tablets in the Windows Insider program. Background /...

Microsoft’s next big bet on PC productivity is arriving as software that can act for you — not just suggest, but do — and it’s arriving inside Windows 11 as an experimental, opt‑in “agentic AI” platform that can sort photos, send emails, edit files, and automate settings directly from the...