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Microsoft’s Photos app for Windows 11 can now do more than display and edit images — it will proactively tidy your camera roll by automatically grouping receipts, screenshots, identity documents, and notes into dedicated categories, and the preview is rolling out to Windows Insiders on Copilot+...

Microsoft appears to be testing a change that would finally let Windows 11’s taskbar search hand off web queries to whatever browser and search engine you have set as default—rather than forcing results into Microsoft Edge and Bing. The evidence comes from new experimental flags discovered in...

Microsoft’s PowerToys is about to fill a longstanding personalization gap in Windows 11 by adding an official, first‑party module to automatically switch between Light and Dark themes on a schedule — a small feature with outsized user demand and a few important caveats to understand...

Microsoft has removed a long-running compatibility block that kept certain Intel 11th‑Gen PCs from receiving the Windows 11 24H2 feature update through Windows Update, resolving an incompatibility with specific Intel Smart Sound Technology (Intel SST) drivers and allowing affected systems to be...

Microsoft has quietly removed a long-running compatibility block that prevented many Intel-powered PCs from getting the Windows 11, version 24H2 (2024 Update) rollout, clearing the path for affected machines to receive the feature update once compatible Intel Smart Sound Technology (Intel SST)...

If Xbox Game Bar refuses to open, glitches during captures, or shows widget errors on a Windows 11 PC, the fastest, lowest-risk route back to a working overlay is a targeted restart and update routine that begins in Settings and escalates only when necessary. The built‑in Repair → Reset flow in...

The clock is ticking for businesses still anchored to Windows 10: Microsoft’s move to concentrate development and security work on Windows 11, combined with a hard end-of-support date for Windows 10, makes migration planning a board-level operational imperative rather than an optional IT...

Microsoft’s Photos app will now sort your messy camera roll for you — but only on select Windows machines and with a handful of important caveats. Background Microsoft announced an AI-powered Auto‑Categorization feature for the Windows 11 Microsoft Photos app in a Windows Insider post by senior...

Microsoft’s official support clock for Windows 10 is winding down, and a growing cottage industry of community tools now offers a practical — if unofficial — path forward: build a pared-back Windows 11 installer with Tiny11, then write it to USB with Rufus to bypass Microsoft’s hardware checks...

Microsoft’s long-standing habit of routing Windows Search and several shell-driven links into Microsoft Edge — regardless of the user’s chosen default browser — may be closer to ending than many thought, but the change comes with caveats and new technical complexities that power users and IT...

Microsoft’s Photos app for Windows 11 is getting an AI-powered tidy-up: a preview of Auto‑Categorization that automatically sorts images — screenshots, receipts, identity documents, and handwritten notes — into dedicated folders on supported machines, and Microsoft is currently testing the...

Microsoft’s new Auto‑Categorization for the Windows 11 Photos app begins a modest but practical assault on one of the most persistent annoyances of modern digital life: a chaotic photo library full of receipts, screenshots, IDs and scrawled notes. The feature—rolling out to Windows Insiders on...

Microsoft has rolled out an optional, non‑security preview update for Windows 11 version 23H2 — KB5065790 — delivering a compact set of targeted reliability fixes (SIM PIN sign‑in freezes, multi‑monitor RDP/docking crashes, Chinese IME rendering, print‑queue crashes and carrier profile updates)...

Microsoft’s Photos app on Windows 11 is getting a focused AI-driven cleanup: an Auto‑Categorization preview that scans your image library and automatically groups common paperwork and clutter — Screenshots, Receipts, Identity documents, and Handwritten notes — into their own folders, and the...

Setting up a new Windows PC should feel like opening a fresh notebook — clean, fast, and yours — but the out‑of‑the‑box Windows 11 experience often ships with features that intrude on privacy, performance, and focus. This feature unpacks the seven settings and behaviours many power users disable...

Microsoft has begun testing an AI-powered Auto‑Categorization feature in the Windows 11 Microsoft Photos app that automatically sorts images into four practical buckets — Screenshots, Receipts, Identity documents, and Notes — for Windows Insiders running the app on Copilot+ PCs, with the update...

Microsoft has quietly begun previewing an AI-driven tidy-up for Windows 11 photo libraries: the Microsoft Photos app will now automatically scan and group images into four focused, document‑like categories — Screenshots, Receipts, Identity documents, and Notes — and the capability is rolling out...

Microsoft has quietly started rolling an AI-powered tidy-up for overflowing photo libraries: the Microsoft Photos app on Windows 11 now includes an Auto‑Categorization feature that automatically groups images into dedicated folders for Screenshots, Receipts, Identity documents, and Notes, and...

Microsoft is quietly rolling an AI-powered tidy-up inside the Windows 11 Photos app: a new Auto‑Categorization feature will scan your library and group images into four practical buckets — Screenshots, Receipts, Identity documents, and Notes — but it’s being tested only on Copilot+ PCs for now...

Asus and Microsoft have opened pre-orders for two new Xbox-branded ROG handhelds — the ROG Xbox Ally (base) and the higher‑end ROG Xbox Ally X — with an official on‑shelf launch date set for October 16, 2025 and U.S. estimated retail prices at roughly $599.99 for the Ally and $999.99 for the...