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In a significant move, Microsoft has paused its plan to display full-screen alerts urging Windows 10 users to upgrade to Windows 11. This decision comes after user feedback highlighted the intrusive nature of these notifications. While there were initial plans to extend these invitations to a...

In a world where operating systems dictate user experience, the slow adoption of Windows 11 raises some critical questions. Currently, Windows 11 has achieved around 30% market share among all desktop versions of Windows—a figure that initially appears robust. However, it pales in comparison to...

In the ever-evolving landscape of operating systems, a fresh concept has emerged that reignites interest in Windows 10. As Microsoft prepares to phase out support for Windows 10, users are finding themselves at a crossroads: upgrade to the AI-centric Windows 11 or cling to an unsupported...

In a fascinating turn of events, a decade-old project by Microsoft has resurfaced following the leak of a presentation from the Midori OS development team. This alternative operating system, which ultimately did not see the light of day, was conceived as a platform capable of running Windows...

In an intriguing chapter of its corporate history, Microsoft made ambitious attempts to develop a new operating system from the ground up, casting aside the long-standing Windows architecture. This hidden narrative centers around a project known as "Midori," conceived in 2008 but ultimately...

Windows 11 has officially crossed a significant milestone by surpassing the 30% market share threshold, the first time since its initial launch in October 2021. This achievement highlights the increasing acceptance and adoption of Microsoft’s latest operating system among users and substantiates...

Welcome to the "Anticipating Windows 12" forum! This is the place to discuss everything related to the highly anticipated next version of Microsoft's operating system. Join the conversation to share your thoughts, hopes, and speculations about Windows 12. Topics of discussion include...

In the realm of operating system security, vigilance in updating is paramount to ensure system integrity and data protection. Microsoft has recently released the January 2024 security update, specifically labeled as KB5034123, introducing crucial enhancements and bug fixes for Windows OS Builds...

This guide describes how to install and launch guest Windows 11 running at near-native speed in open-source Qemu emulator under host Windows 11. This privides an alternative if you want to install and use guest OS on a drive encrypted with open-source software and not with Microsoft-made...

Bought a new Desk Top with Windows 11. I have not received a physical or a digital copy of the Operating system. Nor the activation keys. In the past i have bought several pc's. All came with the Operating System. It's there when i need to reinstall Windows. etc. This one is strange to me. I...

My computer fails to load the operation system when switching it on. On a black screen the error message shows: Invalid partition table When attempting to launch the opsystem from a Windows .ISO DVD any options offered on the screen fail to work out, the single viable option is to use CMD ...

I have acer with windows 11 from the factory. It is basic OS on this device and recommended from the Company. Can i downgrade OS to win 10? Sent from my SM-A346E using Windows Forums mobile app

Hello, I have some mini-PC problems, it started when Windows 10 kept pushing updates to flood my 32gb hard drives to a mere 100 mb's in my Asus VivoSticks TS10 making them inoperable. I had to keep deleting updates everyday and could not shut down the automatic updates in the policies no matter...

Please can anyone tell me how to remove S Mode from windows 12?

I bought Macrium reflect a year ago and didn't realize support stopped after the year. I can still use it though for life. I'm having trouble reading an image file of Macrium particularly in the documents part where I want to copy and paste something to my current operating system. I seem to be...

I have win10 on a machine on our home lan. the lan functions perfectly for 5 other machines on it. Also for that machine most of the time. but sometimes it will boot with no connection - though 'connections available' and sometimes even with 'no connections found' where the previous night it...

Hello, I'm currently fighting a problem related to Windows Update and the update named 0x80070643. While doing research on this problem, I discovered that winre is not only disabled, but the winre.wim file is missing. Is there a straight-forward way to to rebuild/restore this file? I do not...

New member here, first post. Would like some help/advice with the above. The update downloads, and installs to the restart required. Restart first displays the "working on updates" blue-screen, but at 6% progress, commences to close and reboot. (Normally this reaches the 30% progress point??)...

Hello all! The backgrounf to my problem is as follows: I had some problems with my windows 10, and wanted to dual boot windows with Ubuntu. Thus I thought that I was gone move all of my files to an external HDD, then factory reset my computer, and then proceed with the dual boot setup...

I have an ASUS laptop with a crippled hard drive. I was planning on cloning the hard drive to a new hard drive and then removing and replacing the hard drives. The problem is that I cannot install any new applications to the hard drive and so my plan to install the software on the existing hard...