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Logitech’s Logi Dock is a USB-C docking station with an integrated speakerphone, announced in September 2021 and built for hybrid workers who want one cable for laptop charging, displays, peripherals, and meeting audio at a desk. Its real importance is not that it invented the dock, but that it...

On June 27, 2026, VideoCardz reported that enthusiast O_MORES had Windows 11 running on an ASRock ConRoe865PE DDR1 motherboard with an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 and ATI Radeon HD 4650 AGP graphics, including working 3D acceleration and Crysis. The stunt is easy to file under retro-computing...

Microsoft quietly extended the Windows 10 Consumer Extended Security Updates program for personal devices through October 12, 2027, giving enrolled home PCs another year of critical and important security patches after the operating system’s official October 14, 2025 end of support. The move...

Microsoft has made point-in-time restore generally available for Windows 11 version 24H2 and later, giving Home, Pro, Enterprise, and Education PCs a built-in way to roll back to a recent working state when an update, driver, app, policy, or configuration change breaks the system. It is not a...

Microsoft’s Windows 11 Microsoft Store now surfaces developer-provided “What’s new” version notes for app updates in the Store’s download and product-page experience, a change first tested with Windows Insiders in August 2024 and now treated as part of the modern Store experience. It sounds...

Microsoft’s week was defined by an uncomfortable contrast: Windows 11 marked five years since its June 24, 2021 unveiling, Windows 10 received another year of security breathing room, and Xbox hardware moved further away from its old mass-market price promise. The pattern is hard to miss...

Microsoft released KB5095093 on June 23, 2026, as an optional preview cumulative update for Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2, moving systems to builds 26100.8737 and 26200.8737 while beginning a staged rollout of recovery, update-control, accessibility, Bluetooth, File Explorer, printing, and...

Windows 11’s Notification Center, highlighted in Paul Thurrott’s June 27, 2026 Windows 11 Field Guide material, is the flyout opened from the taskbar clock that combines missed app alerts with calendar-adjacent glanceability and Microsoft’s modern Do Not Disturb controls. It looks like a small...

Microsoft released KB5095093 on June 23, 2026, as an optional preview update for Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2, moving 24H2 to Build 26100.8737 and 25H2 to Build 26200.8737. The patch is not just another late-month bundle of small fixes. It is a revealing snapshot of where Windows is being...

A MakeUseOf dual-boot benchmark published around a Windows 11 and EndeavourOS Linux gaming laptop found Windows leading by 8.5 percent in Geekbench single-core CPU performance and 23 percent in Unigine Superposition frame rate, while Linux led in multi-core CPU, OpenCL compute, and idle memory...

On June 24, 2026, Reddit user Omores showed Windows 11 running on an ASRock ConRoe865PE desktop using DDR1 memory, a Core 2 Quad Q6600 processor, and an AGP Radeon HD 4650 graphics card, reportedly with working acceleration and stable everyday operation. The obvious headline is the spectacle: a...

Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Experimental (Future Platforms) Preview Build 29617.1000 on June 26, 2026, for Windows Insiders in the Canary 29600 series, and its most consequential change is a new unified update model intended to reduce monthly restarts. The build is not a consumer...

Microsoft is testing Screen Tint in Windows 11 Insider Experimental Preview Build 29617.1000, released June 26, 2026, giving testers a system-wide color overlay under Accessibility settings to soften bright displays and reduce visual strain. The feature is not another blue-light toggle dressed...

Deleting the only administrator account in Windows 11 does not truly “recover” that account; it forces the user to regain administrator access through another admin profile, the Microsoft account originally tied to the PC, Safe Mode’s built-in Administrator account, or a newly created local...

Windows 10 and Windows 11 users can turn off a laptop touch screen by opening Device Manager, expanding Human Interface Devices, right-clicking HID-compliant touch screen, choosing Disable device, and confirming the warning prompt; the same menu can re-enable it later. That is the quick answer...

Microsoft has revived 8GB RAM configurations for its 13-inch Surface Laptop in June 2026, selling lower-cost Windows 11 machines that Microsoft says are suitable for browsing, streaming, schoolwork, productivity apps, and other everyday tasks. The move is not just a spec-sheet footnote. It is a...

Microsoft is testing a dedicated Taskbar Size setting for Windows 11 preview users, giving Insiders a visible Settings control for making the taskbar more compact or larger instead of relying on registry edits, hidden flags, or third-party customization tools. The change is small in the way a...

A Windows tinkerer known as Omores has demonstrated Windows 11 running in June 2026 on a DDR1-era desktop built around an ASRock ConRoe865PE motherboard, Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, and ATI Radeon HD 4650 AGP graphics card, while claiming the machine is stable. The stunt is funny because it arrives...

Virtualization-Based Security in Windows 11 can be disabled by turning off Memory Integrity, disabling VBS policy or registry settings, preventing the Windows hypervisor from launching, removing virtualization-dependent Windows features, and, in stubborn cases, disabling CPU virtualization in...