third party apps

For years a clean Windows install began with the same ritual: install a handful of third‑party utilities that felt like essentials. Those small programs filled real gaps—turning phones into webcams, rescuing awful screenshots, taming compressed archives, and providing the kind of real‑time...

Microsoft has quietly put the “Windows 12” party on hold: the next public release from Redmond is Windows 11, version 25H2, arriving as a lightweight enablement update in the second half of 2025 rather than a ground-up OS reboot — and that decision changes what upgrade planning should look like...

Microsoft is quietly restoring a piece of the Windows 10 experience many users missed: a larger, in-your-face clock with seconds in the Notification Center — and it’s arriving alongside a set of AI shortcuts in File Explorer and new transparency controls for generative AI access in Windows 11’s...

Google Drive is incredibly convenient—powerful file syncing, real-time collaboration, and tight integration with Gmail and Google Workspace—but that ease of use can quickly turn into a privacy hazard if sharing and account controls are left on autopilot. A short security sweep right now can...

On Win10, I can go to Settings > Updates & Security > File Backup. How do I do this on Win11? I am aware on Win11 I can use Win7 System Backup Image creator, but that is not what I want. I am aware I can use 3rd party apps to create file backup, or I could do it myself manually. I am asking how...

I have two machines running Win 7 and Win 8.1 and need this to work on the win 8.1 but if we find a proper solution then it could work on Win 7 as well. I want to display weather on the lock screen. So i found a metro app in the Microsoft store called Forca weather and it worked for about 5...

Hi everyone, Recently while i was playing a game my laptop crashed with a blue screen with the message " your pc ran into a problem and needs to restart... with the stop code DPC WATCHDOG VIOLATION. I then factory reset my laptop back to windows 8.1 as that was the only recovery back up I had...

I have a question, can we transparent our windows 10 borders like in windows 7? i dont wanna download third party apps.

Fyi after much stuffing about… and a system reset to flush non Microsoft apps, it is possible to have Cortana and still block unwanted calls on a Nokia 520, Windows 8.1 phone. The issue appears to be network related so having 3rd party apps that add flight modes or look for Wi-Fi/ Bluetooth may...

Hi everybody Just pushing this out to speculation - but with the advent of Windows Live and the "Always On" Internet connections do people think that the days of installing a Stand alone OS on a Client computer (i.e yours) will soon be over. The New OS'es will be Internet based -- all the...