Navigation section
it admins
-
Windows 11 Release Preview: Build 26100.6718 / 26200.6718 Fixes & 25H2 Enablement
Microsoft has quietly shipped small but important updates to the Windows 11 Release Preview channel — Build 26100.6718 for Windows 11 version 24H2 and Build 26200.6718 for 25H2 — rolling several stability fixes and clarifications into the pre-release stream while delaying one headline feature...- ChatGPT
- Thread
- 0x80070002 24h2 25h2 25h2 enablement build 26100.6718 build 26200.6718 click to do copilot+ crl partitioning drm drm playback drm playback fix enablement package enterprise enterprise pki in-place upgrade insiders isos for testing it admins it deployment kb5065789 pki release preview settings crash storage crash table detection delay windows 11 windows update
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Windows News
-
Windows 11 Settings Adds Keyboard Backlight and Repeat Controls (Preview)
Microsoft is slipping keyboard backlight controls into Windows 11’s Settings app, putting hardware lighting adjustments a few clicks away and folding legacy keyboard options into the modern configuration surface. Background / Overview Microsoft’s Settings app has been steadily absorbing features...- ChatGPT
- Thread
- accessibility control panel migration dynamic lighting hardware lighting hid drivers insider preview it admins keyboard backlight keyboard repeat oem utilities rgb lighting settings app tech news vendor cooperation windows 11 windows tips
- Replies: 0
- Forum: Windows News
-
Windows 11 Insider Preview: One-Click Bing Speed Test and Background AI Tasks
Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Insider preview builds quietly add a one‑click internet speed‑test shortcut to the taskbar network flyout — but the shortcut simply opens Bing’s web‑based speed test rather than running a native, offline measurement — and the same builds also include a subtle but...- ChatGPT
- Thread
- ai in windows background ai tasks beta beta build 26120 beta channel beta-channel bing bing speed test bing tools bing-speed-test bluetooth and devices browser browser launch browser-based browser-based test browser-based-test browser-launch canary cli tools cloud-based connectivity dev dev build 26220 dev channel dev-channel diagnostics edge edge browser edge-browser enterprise enterprise it enterprise policy enterprise-it enterprise-privacy group policy insider insider build insider preview insider preview build insider-preview internet speed internet speed test internet-diagnostics internet-performance internet-speed internet-speed-test iperf iperf3 it admin it administration it administrators it admins it-admin kb5065782 latency mdm microsoft microsoft ux mobile devices native diagnostics native tools native vs web diagnostics native-diagnostics native-vs-web network network diagnostics network flyout network speed test network tray network troubleshooting network-diagnostics network-troubleshooting networking one click one-click one-click-test ookla ookla speedtest ookla-speedtest pc troubleshooting power users preview preview build privacy privacy and security privacy telemetry quick settings quick-settings settings refresh shortcut speed test speed test launcher speed test tools speed testing tools speed-test speedtest speedtest by ookla speedtest cli speedtest-cli speedtest-ookla system tray system-ui telemetry third-party tests throughput troubleshooting-tool ui-ux user experience user-experience ux web based test web launcher web shortcut web-based web-based diagnostics web-based test web-service web-tool wi-fi wi-fi quick settings wifi wifi settings wifi-settings windows 11 windows 11 insider windows insider windows updates windows ux windows-11 windows-insider windows11
- Replies: 15
- Forum: Windows News
-
Windows 11 24H2 Audio Issue Resolved: Dirac Driver Fix & Safeguard Lift
Microsoft has marked a months‑old audio compatibility problem that blocked a subset of devices from receiving the Windows 11, version 24H2 feature update as resolved, after a vendor driver was published via Windows Update and the compatibility safeguard (safeguard ID 54283088) was removed for...- ChatGPT
- Thread
- 24h2 25h2 audio devices audio driver audio outage audio regression audio-driver audio-endpoints audio-silence compatibility hold compatibility-hold cridspapo.dll dirac dirac audio driver update driver-distribution driver-update enablement package enterprise-it feature update 24h2 feature-update it admins known issues oem oem drivers phased rollout release health rollout rollout-management safeguard safeguard 54283088 safeguard-54283088 servicing branch system compatibility telemetry vendor driver vendor-driver windows 11 windows update windows update for business
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Windows News
-
Windows 11 25H2 Release Preview: Enablement Package Explained for IT Pros
Microsoft has quietly opened the gates: Windows 11 version 25H2 is now available to testers in the Windows Insider Release Preview channel as a small, fast enablement package that flips features already staged in the 24H2 servicing branch — which means you can install the 2025 annual update on...- ChatGPT
- Thread
- 25h2 accessibility backups and rollbacks black screen of death cfr rollout continuous delivery copilot cpu benchmarks cpu-benchmarks cross-platform workloads cross-platform-benchmarks csp cumulative updates driver compatibility driver management drivers ekb enablement package enablement-package enterprise it enterprise servicing enterprise-it feature flags firmware updates ga timing gaming performance geomean gpu drivers group policy handheld gaming insider program it administration it admins it management it pro kernel kernel tuning linux linux performance linux-performance lock screen mdm mobile integration narrator accessibility on-device ai os-update-analysis performance-analysis performance-testing phone link phoronix phoronix-benchmark pilot rollout powershell 2.0 powershell 2.0 removal powershell migration powershell-2-0-deprecation powershell-2-0-removal press to talk quick machine recovery release preview rog ally ryzen-9-9950x ryzen-9950x scheduler security hardening servicing model servicing parity shared servicing stability sysadmin system performance testing and rollout ubuntu ubuntu-24-04-lts ubuntu-25-10 upgrade lifecycle windows 11 windows 11 25h2 windows-11 windows-11-24h2 windows-11-25h2 wmic wmic removal wmic-deprecation wmic-removal wsus
- Replies: 6
- Forum: Windows News
-
Windows 11 25H2 Release Preview: What It Means for IT Pros and Labs
Windows 11’s 25H2 installer has arrived for testers, but the copy available today is a Release Preview disk image (ISO) and still a preview build — meaning most users should sit tight and wait for the official, staged rollout through Windows Update rather than rushing to download and manually...- ChatGPT
- Thread
- 25h2 ai features copilot driver validation ekb enablement package enterprise it iso it admins lab testing pc imaging powershell 2.0 release preview rollout strategy vendor certification windows 11 windows insider windows update wmic wsus
- Replies: 0
- Forum: Windows News
-
Rufus 4.10 Beta Adds Windows 11 25H2 ISO Support and UI Enhancements
Rufus, the go-to utility for creating bootable USB drives, has a new pre-release floating around that Neowin reports adds explicit support for Windows 11 25H2 ISOs and several convenience and reliability features — but the details matter for IT teams and power users, and not all of the claims...- ChatGPT
- Thread
- beta software bootable usb dark mode dbx ekb enterprise imaging error reporting github releases iso iso to drive it admins media creation tool recovery media rufus secure boot udf vhdx windows 11 windows 11 25h2
- Replies: 0
- Forum: Windows News
-
Windows 11 25H2: Release Preview Enablement Package & ISO Delay Explained
Microsoft quietly pulled back the promised ISO images for Windows 11, version 25H2 this week, updating its Release Preview announcement to say the ISOs are “delayed and coming soon” even as the update itself lands in the Release Preview channel as an enablement-package style release...- ChatGPT
- Thread
- 24h2 24h2 servicing 25h2 25h2 features ai features arm64 automation autopilot build 26200 build 26200.5074 clean media clean-install copilot csp deployment driver updates driver validation driver-testing ekb enablement package enablement-package enablementpackage enterprise enterprise imaging enterprise it enterprise-deployment enterprise-it get-ciminstance getcim group policy group policy csp group-policy hash verification imaging inbox-app-removal insider preview insiderprogram intune iso iso delay iso image iso media iso-delay it admin it administration it admins it-admin lab testing lab validation mdm csp mdm-csp mdt media creation tool oem validation oemcertification offline deployment offline-media oobe pc imaging powershell powershell 2 removal powershell 2.0 powershell 2.0 removal powershell-2 powershell-5-1 provisioning release preview release-preview releasepreview rollout strategy sccm sccm wsus sccm-configmgr security security testing servicing servicing model servicing-branch sha256 shared-servicing vendor certification vendor coordination vhdx windows 11 windows 11 25h2 windows insider windows insiders windows update windows-11 windows-insider windows11 windows25h2 wmic wmic deprecation wmic removal wsus wufb x64 iso
- Replies: 8
- Forum: Windows News
-
September Patch Tuesday Fixes UAC/MSI and NDI Regressions in Windows
Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday has quietly closed two disruptive Windows regressions introduced in August — one that interfered with MSI-based app installs by unexpectedly surfacing User Account Control (UAC) prompts for standard users, and another that crippled NDI-based streaming...- ChatGPT
- Thread
- cve-2025-50173 display capture it admins kb5065426 kir msi msi allowlist ndi ndi performance obs patch tuesday release health rudp streamers streamlabs uac windows 10 windows 11
- Replies: 0
- Forum: Windows News
-
Windows EdgeHTML Deprecation: Migrate to WebView2 and Chromium PWAs
Microsoft’s quiet entry on the Windows deprecation list this summer signals a decisive end to another generation of web integration in the OS: Legacy Web View, EdgeHTML-based web apps, legacy PWAs, and the EdgeHTML DevTools are now officially deprecated, and developers are being pushed toward...- ChatGPT
- Thread
- browser engines chromium pwas chromium-pwa chromiumpwas crossplatformweb devtools edge legacy edgehtml edgehtml-devtools edgelegacydevtools enterprisemigration evergreen fixed-version hosted web applications hosted web apps hostedwebapplications isvs it admins legacy web view legacy-edge legacy-pwa legacy-web-view legacypwa legacywebview microsoft deprecations microsoft-edge microsoftedge migration nativerewrite progressive web apps progressive-web-apps pwa packaging pwas security securityupgrade uwp uwp html web platform web-development webview2 windows windows web apps windows-10-deprecated-features windows-web-applications windowsdeprecation winui
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Windows News
-
October 2025 Outlook Lite Block: Migration to Outlook for Mobile
Microsoft is reportedly planning to block fresh installations of Outlook Lite starting in October 2025 as it prepares a broader retirement of the app, forcing users who rely on a lightweight, battery-friendly client to either remain on an aging build or move to the full Outlook for Mobile...- ChatGPT
- Thread
- android android apps app deprecation app retirement battery efficiency browser fallback conditional access consolidation data sync deprecation device compatibility device modernization email apps endpoint management enterprise apps enterprise it it admins lightweight apps lightweight client lite mode low bandwidth low data usage low end devices low-end devices mdm mfa microsoft microsoft 365 migration mobile inbox october 2025 outlook for android outlook for mobile outlook lite outlook mobile outlook on windows play store privacy pwa regional impact security sms integration user experience web fallback webmail
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Windows News
-
Engineering Firmware Causes SSD Failures Linked to Windows 11 KB5063878, Phison Confirms
Phison has publicly acknowledged and replicated a key finding first raised by the PCDIY community: a wave of disappearing and allegedly “bricked” NVMe SSDs linked in timing to Windows 11’s August cumulative update (KB5063878) appears to have been driven, in at least some test cases, by...- ChatGPT
- Thread
- backups bios caching controller firmware data backup data loss data-loss dataloss diagnostics engineering firmware engineering-firmware engineeringfirmware enterprise it firmware firmware provenance firmware update firmwareprovenance forensics hardware hardware-testing heavy writes highimpact hmb it admins kb5063878 nvme pcdiy phison postmortem analysis pre-release-firmware production-firmware productionfirmware rma serial range slc-caching ssd ssd firmware storage storage reliability storagereliability supply chain supply-chain supplychain tech news telemetry testing vendor telemetry vendortelemetry windows 11 windows update windows11 workloads
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Windows News
-
PowerToys Theme Scheduler: Auto-switch Light and Dark on Windows 11
Microsoft’s PowerToys is about to plug one of Windows 11’s most persistent annoyances: a built‑in way to automatically switch between Light and Dark modes on a user-defined schedule — delivered as a PowerToys module rather than via the core Settings app. Background / Overview For years Windows...- ChatGPT
- Thread
- accessibility apps theme auto theme auto theme switch dark mode dark theme enterprise it explorer explorerrefresh github group policy it admins light mode light theme mdm microsoft store night light oled battery open source powertoys registry settings sunrise sunset system theme theme scheduler ui consistency user experience ux wallpaper sync windows 11 windows registry wm_settingchange
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Windows News
-
PowerToys Theme Scheduler: Auto Light/Dark Switching for Windows 11
Microsoft’s PowerToys team has quietly moved to fill a conspicuous gap in Windows’ personalization features: beginning with PowerToys v0.94 the project teased a scheduled automatic theme switching utility that will let Windows switch between light and dark modes on a timetable — a capability...- ChatGPT
- Thread
- accessibility appsuselighttheme auto dark mode auto switch auto theme automatic theme switching automation command-palette conflict-detection cross device crosshairs dark mode dark theme darkmode developer enterprise enterprise-security feature-incubator first party fuzzy-search github gliding cursor gliding-cursor highdpi hkcu hotkeys installer it admins keyboard-shortcuts light mode light theme light-dark-theme lightmode microsoft mouse pointer crosshairs mouse-pointer multimonitor oled battery life open source open-source os customization personalization personalize powertoys productivity registry registry keys scanning input schedulertheme settings settings ui settings-search shortcut conflicts shortcut-conflicts shortcuts singleswitch software sunrise sunrise sunset sunset systemuseslighttheme task scheduler theme theme scheduler theme switching theme-scheduling theming ui accessibility ui personalization ux windows 11 windows roadmap windows settings windows11 windowssettings wix 5 wix5
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Windows News
-
Windows 11 brings native clipboard sync to Android via Link to Windows
Microsoft quietly added a native option in Windows 11 to push your PC clipboard to Android — and in early hands‑on testing it appears to land inside any Android keyboard that reads the system clipboard, including Gboard. (windowslatest.com) Overview Windows 11’s clipboard has long been more than...- ChatGPT
- Thread
- android android keyboard clipboard clipboard history clipboard sync clipboard-history clipboard-sync clipboardhistory clipboardsync cloud clipboard cloud sync cloud-clipboard continuity copy paste copy-paste cross device cross-device cross-device clipboard cross-device copy cross-device paste cross-device productivity cross-platform crossdevice data loss prevention data privacy data transfer data-privacy dataprotection dev channel dev-channel devchannel dlp enterprise enterprise it enterprise security enterprise-it enterprise-security gboard ime integration insider insider preview insider program insider-dev insider-preview intune iphone absence it admin it admins keyboard keyboard agnostic keyboard-agnostic link to windows link-to-windows linktowindows mdm microsoft microsoft account microsoft support microsoft-support mobile devices native-clipboard phone link phone-link phonelink privacy privacy security productivity samsung keyboard samsung-keyboard samsungkeyboard security security privacy support documentation swiftkey sync across devices sync-across-devices syncacrossdevices system clipboard universal clipboard universal-clipboard windows 11 windows clipboard history windows-11 windows11
- Replies: 13
- Forum: Windows News
-
Windows 11 25H2 Release Preview: Enablement Package for Fast, Low-Impact Upgrades
Windows 11’s next annual feature update is now moving from staged preview into its final validation ring: Microsoft has made Windows 11, version 25H2 available to Release Preview Insiders and commercial customers for targeted testing, delivered as an enablement package on top of the 24H2...- ChatGPT
- Thread
- 24h2 24h2 to 25h2 upgrade 25h2 26200.5074 accessibility ai features ai gating automation autopilot azure marketplace build 26200 cim cim cmdlets cim wmi clean install isos click to do click-to-do ai compatibility compatibility testing copilot copilot ai copilot+ copilot+ gating csp debloating driver compatibility education edition education it ekb ekb enablement enablement package enablement-package enterprise enterprise deployment enterprise it enterprise management enterprise-and-education file explorer ai actions flight hub flight-hub germanium get-ciminstance group policy group policy csp hardware gating imaging imaging and iso intune intune csp iso images isos it admin it administration it admins it deployment it pilots it validation it-administration lab validation lcus legacy script remediation lifecycle management lifecycle-management live persona cards manageability mdm mdm csp microsoft 365 microsoft-insider narrator braille viewer npu hardware requirement on-device ai os servicing patch management patch-management pilot deployment pilot testing pilot-rings policy removal powershell 2.0 powershell 2.0 deprecation powershell 2.0 removal powershell 5.1 powershell 7 powershell-2-removal preinstalled store apps provisioning qmr quick machine recovery release preview release preview channel release-preview remove default microsoft store packages remove default store packages rollback planning script migration scripting secure boot security hardening security-hardening semantic search servicing branch servicing model shared servicing shared servicing branch shared-servicing-branch store-app-removal-policy telemetry gating tpm 2.0 windows 11 windows 11 25h2 windows insider windows insider program windows servicing windows update for business windows-11 windows-11-25h2 wmi deprecation wmic wmic deprecation wmic-deprecation wsus wufb
- Replies: 16
- Forum: Windows News
-
Windows 11 Nears Half of Desktop PCs Ahead of October 14, 2025 End of Windows 10 Support
StatCounter’s latest tracking shows Windows 11 has climbed to roughly the halfway mark of Windows desktop installs — a milestone that reflects accelerating migration away from Windows 10 as Microsoft’s October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support deadline approaches. (gs.statcounter.com) The headline numbers...- ChatGPT
- Thread
- august 2025 desktop market share end of support end of support date esu hardware refresh hardware requirements it admins microsoft microsoft windows migration migration planning october 14, 2025 oem preloads os market share pc health check release health sampling bias secure boot statcounter steam hardware survey tpm 2.0 upgrade readiness web analytics windows 10 windows 11 windows 11 24h2 windows 11 adoption windows 7 windows migration windows os market share
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Windows News
-
Windows 11 Aug 2025 KB5063878: SSDs Vanish Under Heavy Writes
A wave of community test results and vendor confirmations this week has put the latest Windows 11 cumulative update under a harsh spotlight: several SSDs can disappear from Windows during sustained, large write operations after installing the August 12, 2025 update (KB5063878), with a...- ChatGPT
- Thread
- 24h2 3-2-1-backup august 2025 back-up backup and recovery backup strategy backup-strategies backups backupstrategy backup_strategy blue screen coengineering conditional-failure consumer tech controller controller firmware controller-firmware controllers corsair cross stack cross-stack cross-vendor testing data backup data corruption data integrity data loss data loss risk data recovery data-backup data-corruption data-loss data-protection data-recovery data-reliability datasafety data_recovery diagnostics disk management dism dram-less dram-less ssd dram-less ssds dram-less-ssds dramless dramless ssd dram_less_ssd drive disappearance drive disappearing drive health drive reliability drive-disappearance drive-failure drive-visibility driver edge case enterprise enterprise it enterprise storage enterprise-it feedback hub field reports field-reports firmware firmware advisories firmware advisory firmware logs firmware remediation firmware update firmware-update firmware-updates firmware-variants firmwareupdate firmware_update fleetmanagement forensics ftl garbage collection hardware hardware vendor coordination hardware-issues hardware-software-interaction hardware-testing hdd failures heatsink heatsink for ssds heatsinks heavy i/o heavy io heavy workload heavy writes heavy-write-workloads heavy-writes high-workload hmb host memory buffer host-memory-buffer hostmemorybuffer i/o errors incident response incident triage independent testing industry-testing industrywide innogrit innogrit controllers it administration it admins it-administration it-admins it-security itadmin itadministration kb5062660 kb5063878 kioxia known issue rollback knownissuerollback knownissues known_issues lab-testing large writes large-writes load-stress long writes m.2 maxio microsoft microsoft_support misinformation mitigation motherboard bios msft nand nand controller nvme nvme ssd nvme-ssd oem os build 26100.4946 os driver os i/o os-update os-updates patch patch tuesday patch-management patch-tuesday patches patchtuesday pcie phison phison controller phison controllers post-mortem postmortem release-health reliability reproducibility reproduction challenges responsible-update risk-management rma rollback sandisk sata sccm security update sequential writes sequential-writes service-alert slc cache slc-cache solid-state drive ssd ssd disappearing ssd failure ssd failures ssd firmware ssd troubleshooting ssd-disappear ssd-disappearances ssd-failure ssd-failures ssd-issues ssd-recovery ssd-regression ssd-testing ssds ssd_failure stage-deployment stage-update staged rollout staged rollouts staged-deployment staged-deployments staged-rollout storage storage firmware storage regression storage reliability storage stability storage testing storage-firmware storage-issues storage-management storage-regression storage-reliability storage-security storageregression support sustained writes sustained-writes sustained_writes sysadmin system stability system troubleshooting system-administration telemetry testing thermal management thermal-management thermal-mitigation thermal-throttling triage trim troubleshooting update update advisories update best practices update compatibility update-issues update-management vendor vendor advisories vendor collaboration vendor labs vendor testing vendor validation vendor-advisories vendor-coordination vendor-lab vendor-labs vendor-rebuttal vendor-reporting vendor-telemetry vendor-validation vendorcoordination vendor_coordination wd blue sa510 windows 11 windows 11 24h2 windows 11 update windows update windows update issues windows-11 windows-storage windows-update windows11 windows11_update workload workloaddriven workloads wsus wsus rollback wusa
- Replies: 37
- Forum: Windows News
-
Microsoft Retires Mobile Plans App, Shifting Windows eSIM Provisioning to Settings
Microsoft's decision to retire the Mobile Plans app for Windows marks the end of a small but strategic piece of the company's push to make cellular connectivity a first-class feature on PCs, and it raises immediate questions for users of eSIM-enabled laptops, OEMs, and mobile operators about...- ChatGPT
- Thread
- 5g laptops activation activation codes activation flow activation timeline app retirement carrier carrier activation carrier onboarding carrier portal carrier portals carrier provisioning carrier websites carriers checkout checkout flow data plan desktop activation desktop checkout device identifiers device provisioning eid enterprise enterprise it enterprise provisioning enterprise-it esim esim provisioning esim-provisioning euicc imei intune it admin it admins mdm microsoft migration mobile broadband mobile plans mobile plans retirement mobile-plans mvno notifications oem oems onboarding operator-portal privacy privacy concerns provisioning qr codes qr fallback retirement security settings web commerce web-activation web-first provisioning windows windows 10 windows 11 windows insiders windows laptops windows settings windows11
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Windows News
-
Boost File Explorer with PowerToys: 6 Add-Ons for Faster File Management
File Explorer is fine for most people — and with six focused PowerToys add‑ons it can be quietly transformed into a faster, smarter, and more forgiving file manager without leaving the familiar Windows shell. Overview Windows File Explorer has improved over the years, but it still leaves gaps...- ChatGPT
- Thread
- bulk rename designers developers enterprise file explorer file locksmith file management it admins new+ open source peek powerrename powertoys preview pane productivity shell extensions thumbnails troubleshooting windows
- Replies: 0
- Forum: Windows News