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Windows 11 users in some recent builds, including at least one Insider Beta Channel configuration reported on May 13 and 14, 2026, are seeing the emoji picker’s search box disappear, with the quickest known workaround being a restart of Windows Explorer through Task Manager. The bug is small...

Windows 11 users have reported a bug in May 2026 that can make the emoji picker’s search box disappear, and Windows Central says restarting Windows Explorer from Task Manager restores it without rebooting the PC. That is a tiny fix for a tiny feature, but the irritation is not tiny at all. The...

The Register’s May 1, 2026 “Bork” sighting puts a Windows Explorer memory error on a screen inside the gift shop exit of The Curse at Alton Manor, Alton Towers’ haunted dark ride in Staffordshire, England. The joke is obvious: the ghost train’s scripted horrors were upstaged by the unscripted...

Windows Explorer’s Details view finally showing folder sizes is not a magic trick — it’s the result of two small, well-engineered tools working together: the ultra‑fast indexer Everything and the File Explorer mod host Windhawk, joined by a community mod that injects folder‑size data into...

File Explorer’s stubborn omission — the inability to show folder sizes in the Details view — has been quietly solved by a tiny community tweak that stitches two free tools together: Windhawk and Everything Search. The result is a near‑native experience that places folder sizes into the Size...

Microsoft’s Security Update Guide lists CVE-2026-20937 as an information-disclosure vulnerability in Windows File Explorer; the vendor record confirms the issue exists but provides only terse public detail, leaving defenders to balance urgent mitigations with careful validation of KB mappings...