windows 11

As of July 2026, Star Citizen officially requires a Windows 10 PC with a 64-bit quad-core Intel i7 Haswell-or-newer or AMD Excavator-or-newer CPU, 16 GB of RAM, a 4 GB VRAM GPU, and at least 150 GB of SSD storage. The recommended line moves quickly to Windows 11 support, an eight-core-class CPU...

Microsoft is rolling out Windows 11 update changes through its Insider channels that let users skip setup-time updates, repeatedly extend 35-day update pauses, and choose ordinary shut down or restart commands without installing pending updates, shifting control away from Windows’ most resented...

Microsoft PowerToys Text Extractor is a free Windows utility that copies visible text from images, videos, PDFs, dialogs, and apps using OCR, with the default shortcut Win + Shift + T on Windows 10 and Windows 11. Its importance is not that OCR is new, but that Microsoft has made it feel like a...

Microsoft is rolling out its 2025 Windows 11 Start menu redesign to version 24H2 and 25H2 users as of July 2026, bringing a single scrollable layout, category-based app browsing, and more control over the long-criticized Recommended area. The change is not the grand restoration of Windows 10-era...

Enable Windows 11 Point-in-time restore now only on devices that pass four checks: the OS volume is at least 200 GB, free space and Volume Shadow Copy Service capacity are healthy, BitLocker recovery-key retrieval is confirmed, and a Windows Recovery Environment restore has been tested on a...

Microsoft is previewing a set of Windows 11 changes in 2026 that restore several user-requested controls, including movable taskbars, Start and taskbar personalization, a redesigned Feedback Hub, and enterprise app-removal policies, after years of complaints that Windows 11 prioritized...

Microsoft promoted the dedicated Copilot key this week with social posts suggesting it is “the button you can press to fix everything,” reviving a familiar Windows 11 argument just as the company is preparing to let users remap that same key back to Right Ctrl or the context menu. The ad was...

Microsoft’s June 23, 2026 optional Windows 11 preview update, KB5095093, includes a fix for runaway disk usage tied to CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal, a background database log used by the Capability Access Manager service to track app access to privacy-sensitive hardware and permissions. That...

Microsoft’s Find my device feature in Windows 11 lets users locate and remotely lock a lost or stolen PC through the Settings app and Microsoft account device dashboard, provided the PC is signed in with a Microsoft account, connected to the internet, and allowed to use location services. The...

Windows 11 includes a built-in predictive text feature for physical keyboards that can be enabled from Settings > Time & language > Typing, where Microsoft offers “Show text suggestions when typing on the physical keyboard” alongside related autocorrect options. The interesting part is not that...

Windows Movie Maker 6.0 drew fresh attention on June 30, 2026, after an X user uploaded a classic installer to the Internet Archive and said it worked on Windows 7, Windows 10, and Windows 11. The news is not that Microsoft has revived Movie Maker; it has not. The story is that Windows users...

Google’s official way to create a bootable ChromeOS Flex USB on Windows 11 or Windows 10 is to use the Chromebook Recovery Utility in Chrome, select Google ChromeOS Flex, choose an 8GB-or-larger USB drive, and let the tool download and write the installer. That is the simplest path because...

Microsoft’s June 23, 2026 optional preview update for Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2, KB5095093, improves File Explorer launch performance and responsiveness, moving systems to OS builds 26100.8737 and 26200.8737 while staging the same fixes for broader delivery in July. That is the news, but it is...

For most beginners on Windows 11, Microsoft Clipchamp is the best first free video editor because it is built into Windows, exports watermark-free at up to 1080p on the free plan, and covers basic trimming, cropping, speed changes, effects, stock media, and music. If Clipchamp gets in the way...

Microsoft’s late-June social ad framed the Windows 11 Copilot key as a magic button with “main character energy,” even as Microsoft’s own support guidance now says a future Windows 11 update will let users remap that key to Right Ctrl or the Context menu key. That is not just awkward timing; it...

Intel released Windows 10 and Windows 11 wireless driver package 24.50.0 on June 30, 2026, pairing Wi‑Fi and Bluetooth updates with early changes aligned to Microsoft’s new Driver Quality Initiative, the company’s post-WinHEC effort to make third-party drivers more stable, predictable, secure...

Create and Export a Custom Windows Theme Pack in Windows 10/11 Difficulty: Beginner | Time Required: 10 minutes A custom Windows theme pack is a handy way to save your favorite desktop look and share it with another PC or another user. Instead of manually setting the wallpaper, accent color...

On June 29, 2026, Microsoft put WSL Containers into public preview for Windows 11, adding a wslc.exe command-line tool and developer API that can build, run, and manage Linux containers without Docker Desktop. That is not the same thing as saying Docker Desktop is obsolete. It is, however, the...

Windows 11 users who want deeper Start menu and taskbar customization in July 2026 are increasingly turning to third-party tools such as Stardock’s Start11, because Microsoft’s built-in personalization controls still stop short of restoring the flexible desktop model many Windows 10 users...

Microsoft released the optional KB5095093 preview update for Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2 on June 23, 2026, bringing File Explorer launch-speed improvements, responsiveness fixes, and related shell reliability changes to builds 26100.8737 and 26200.8737. That sounds like a small patch-note...