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Microsoft is broadening its Windows 11 File Explorer performance work in spring 2026, moving beyond background preloading toward fixes for launch order, disk activity, visual delays, navigation responsiveness, and hangs across one of the operating system’s most-used surfaces. That is the...

Microsoft’s April 2026 Windows cumulative updates quietly delivered one of the more meaningful security hardenings in recent memory: new guardrails around Remote Desktop Protocol files, better known as .rdp files. For a feature most users barely think about, the change matters because .rdp...

It took nearly five years, but Microsoft is finally moving to give Windows 11 users back one of the platform’s most-requested desktop controls: the ability to move, resize, and better tailor the Taskbar to the way they actually work. The change matters because it is not just a cosmetic tweak; it...

Die mediale Welle um ein angeblich unmittelbar bevorstehendes „Windows 12“ – AI‑first, hardware‑gegated und abonnementbasiert – hat sich als Fehlalarm entpuppt; was viral ging, war überwiegend eine schlecht verifizierte Übersetzung, eine Aneinanderreihung alter Projektfragmente und spekulative...

A newly logged elevation‑of‑privilege flaw in the Host Process for Windows Tasks (taskhostw.exe / taskhostex.exe) gives local authenticated users a path to SYSTEM‑level effects by abusing improper link resolution (commonly called “link following”) in scheduled‑task/hosted‑task file operations —...