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The windows 11 tag on WindowsForum.com covers the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview builds, including 26H2 and 26H1 flights, and their new features such as a redesigned File Explorer context menu, Get Started app recommendations, and Wi-Fi profile reuse in WinRE. It also tracks significant changes like the removal of WMIC, which can break legacy scripts, and compatibility blocks affecting games like PUBG. Discussions include hardware comparisons for AI workloads, such as AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 395, and clarifications on updates like KB5121003 for low-memory reliability fixes. Recovery features like point-in-time restore and their version support are also examined, providing practical insights for Windows 11 users and IT professionals.
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    Windows 11 Text Size: Make Text Bigger Without Scaling

    Windows 11 and Windows 10 include a built-in text-scaling control that enlarges much of the operating system’s written interface without lowering display resolution or inflating icons, photos, and application windows. For people who can read their screen but find File Explorer labels, Settings...
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    MicrosoftSettings.exe Promotes Bing, Doesn’t Force It

    Windows 11 users should treat a newly reported executable named Microsoft Recommended Search Settings as an optional Bing-promotion tool, not a Windows update or a mandatory browser change. Windows Latest reports that the program, distributed as MicrosoftSettings.exe from a Microsoft download...
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    KB5120998 Starts Windows 11 Administrator Protection Rollout

    Windows 11 Administrator Protection is now appearing in the Release Preview builds for version 24H2 and 25H2, but it is not a feature that every Windows 11 PC can simply turn on today. Microsoft’s August 14 Release Preview update, KB5120998, lists it as a gradual rollout in builds 26100.9267 and...
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    Fix Missing Volume Icon in Windows 10 and 11

    A missing volume icon in Windows 10 or Windows 11 usually falls into one of two categories: the audio controls are still working but the taskbar has failed to display them, or Windows has lost access to an audio output device. The distinction determines the fix. Start by checking whether sound...
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    Windows 11 Phone Link Features Depend on Supported Devices

    Windows 11’s Phone Link can now resume a handful of Android activities on a PC, surface phone controls from Start, and run certain Android apps in a wider desktop-style window. But the practical story is more constrained than MakeUseOf’s upbeat overview suggests: Phone Link’s best features are...
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    ASUS ExpertBook B3 G2 Is Not a Copilot+ PC

    ASUS is bringing Intel’s new Core 7 Series 3 platform to the ExpertBook B3 G2 family in 14-inch B3406CMA and 16-inch B3606CMA forms, but the more important finding for Windows buyers is what the specification actually promises — and what it does not. The machines are positioned as upgradeable...
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    Windows 11 26H2 Defaults Managed PCs to Point-in-Time Restore

    Microsoft has confirmed that Point-in-time restore will switch on by default for enterprise-managed Windows 11 PCs beginning with version 26H2—but the change is narrower than the “enabled for everyone” reading of the headline suggests. On unmanaged Windows 11 Home systems and unmanaged Windows...
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    Enable Seconds in Windows 11 Taskbar Clock via Date & Time

    Windows 11 can display seconds beside the hours and minutes in the taskbar clock without a registry edit, third-party utility, or restart. The setting is built into the current Date & time page in Settings, where Microsoft now groups the system-tray clock controls. Turn it on if you need to time...
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    Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro Updates End October 13, 2026

    Windows 11 version 24H2 reaches the end of updates for Home, Pro, Pro Education, and Pro for Workstations on October 13, 2026—less than two months from now. The immediate action for affected PCs is to move to Windows 11 25H2, which Microsoft supports for those editions through October 12, 2027...
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    Windows USB Eject Error: Find the Blocking Process

    When Windows 10 or Windows 11 says a USB drive is “currently in use,” do not pull the cable and hope for the best. The message means Windows could not complete the removal request because an application, background process, or pending storage operation still has the volume open. Microsoft’s...
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    Windows 11 Hotpatching Means Five Reboots in 2026, Not Four

    Windows 11 hotpatching can remove up to eight planned monthly security-update restarts a year for eligible business PCs, but Microsoft’s own 2026 servicing calendar already shows why administrators should not translate that into “four reboots annually.” An extra baseline update in June has...
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    Microsoft To Do: Use My Day Without Losing Unfinished Tasks

    Microsoft To Do gives Windows 10 and Windows 11 users a practical way to separate what exists from what needs attention today. The difference is important: lists are where tasks belong over time, while My Day is a deliberately temporary shortlist for the work you intend to complete before the...
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    Windows 11 Open Apps Maximized Is an Experimental Toggle

    Windows 11 Experimental build 26340.9212 contains an unannounced Open apps maximized switch that appears to force newly launched app windows into a maximized state, but its current implementation looks more like a narrow Insider experiment than a finished window-management feature. Windows...
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    KB5121003 Linked to Windows 11 Game Crashes and Restarts

    Microsoft is investigating reports that the August 11 Windows 11 security update, KB5121003, can crash or freeze certain games and, in some cases, restart the PC. The update takes Windows 11 24H2 to build 26100.9168 and Windows 11 25H2 to build 26200.9168; players of ARC Raiders, The Finals, and...
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    Windows 11: Fix Missing Set Default Printer Button

    Microsoft’s refreshed “Set a default printer in Windows” guidance makes one operational point unusually clear: Windows cannot both manage the default printer automatically and honor a manually pinned default at the same time. If the Set as default button is missing in Windows 11, Microsoft says...
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    Chrome Task Triggers Blank Window at Windows Sign-In

    A blank white rectangle that appears at Windows sign-in, after an unlock, or following a restart has been tied by multiple user reports to a Google Chrome scheduled task—not to a Windows display failure, GPU driver fault, or malware by default. The practical fix is to update Chrome first, then...
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    Windows Task Manager Adds Per-Process NPU and GPU AI Metrics — Megathread

    Windows Task Manager is gaining per-process visibility into NPU and GPU neural-engine activity, giving administrators and developers a built-in way to see whether local AI work is using dedicated accelerators or consuming ordinary CPU and GPU resources instead. Microsoft detailed the change in...
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    Fix Windows 11 Start and Taskbar Freezes with Explorer Restart

    A frozen Windows 11 Start button or Taskbar is usually a shell failure that can be recovered without reinstalling the operating system—but the right repair depends on whether the failure is temporary, update-related, or confined to managed enterprise deployments. Guiding Tech’s troubleshooting...
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    Windows 11 Keeps Legacy Right-Click Menu as Compatibility Path

    Windows 11’s Windows 10-era right-click menu is not being removed. Microsoft is instead turning it into a compatibility path for older File Explorer extensions while rebuilding the primary context menu around speed, customization, and a stricter extension model. That distinction is more...
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    CachyOS Leads Windows 11 by 14.9%, but GPU Results Split

    TechPowerUp reports that CachyOS in its “performance mode” led a fresh Linux-versus-Windows workstation comparison on HP’s Z4 G6i, finishing 14.9% ahead of Windows 11 Pro in the benchmark suite’s geometric mean. AlmaLinux 10.2 also finished ahead of Windows in the reported results. But the...