It’s one of those days. You settle into your chair, fire up your “cutting-edge” Windows 11 laptop, and brace yourself for the digital waltz that is modern computing. The screen springs to life, all clean lines and soothing blue backgrounds, but beneath this tranquil surface, trouble is brewing...
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Windows 11 continues to surprise its users. The latest April 2025 cumulative update—KB5055523—has introduced an unexpected twist: the creation of an empty "inetpub" folder in the root of the C: drive, even on systems where Internet Information Services (IIS) is not installed. While the folder’s...
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I'm experiencing a critical bug or quirk in moving/copying files. It happens for example like this: I just want to move a directory, say 5-15GB, including a couple of movies or something. I have the source folder open and the destination folder open. So those two windows sit there and I start...
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