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Microsoft’s decision to retire Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 has forced a reckoning for millions of aging PCs—and a surprising cottage-industry of community tooling has stepped forward to offer a practical, if imperfect, bridge: Tiny11 Builder, a PowerShell-driven project that creates...

Tiny11 is the latest reminder that the Windows upgrade debate has moved far beyond marketing slogans: while Microsoft insists many older PCs are unsupported for Windows 11, independent projects like NTDEV’s Tiny11 are actively proving the opposite — and forcing a much more uncomfortable...

Nano11 is the kind of geeky engineering stunt that makes you admire the technical craft while quietly reminding you why operating systems are usually built with more than minimalism in mind. Background NTDEV—the developer known for the Tiny11 project—has published Nano11 Builder, a...

Nano11’s demo-sized ISO and sub‑3GB installed footprints are headline‑grabbing — but they’re the result of deliberate surgical removals and heavy compression that trade serviceability, security, and general compatibility for raw minimalism. Background / Overview Windows 11’s default footprint...

Paul Thurrott’s Windows Weekly episode continues the show’s long-running mix of practical Windows tips, industry gossip, and ecosystem-level analysis — this week touching off from Patch Tuesday and a surprise Windows 11 ISO release, then threading through Microsoft’s return‑to‑office policy...

NTDEV’s Tiny11 already rewired how power users think about Windows 11; now a new set of community tools is taking that work even further — and raising fresh questions about safety, supportability, and the line between useful customization and outright breakage. The latest headline-grabber is a...

NTDEV’s new Nano11 Builder takes the Windows‑11 debloat movement from pragmatic trimming to experimental minimalism, producing bootable ISOs and installed images measured in single‑digit gigabytes by surgically removing inbox apps, servicing infrastructure, and even parts of the Windows...

NTDEV’s community ecosystem has produced yet another extreme take on Windows 11: nano11, a script-driven rebuilder that pares a stock Windows 11 image down to astonishingly small sizes — an ISO reportedly just over 2 GB and an installed footprint under 3 GB when combined with compression — by...

Windows 11’s 25H2 installer has arrived for testers, but the copy available today is a Release Preview disk image (ISO) and still a preview build — meaning most users should sit tight and wait for the official, staged rollout through Windows Update rather than rushing to download and manually...

NTDEV’s latest build tools push Windows‑shrinking projects into new territory: a purpose‑built “nano11” pipeline that trims a Windows 11 ISO to the absolute minimum, producing ISOs and installed footprints measured in single‑digit gigabytes — and, in developer demos, as small as a 2.29 GB ISO...

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NTDEV’s ecosystem of third‑party builders has a new, headline‑grabbing member: nano11, a PowerShell‑driven script that pushes the tiny‑Windows idea to its limits by producing an ultra‑small Windows 11 image — the developer says an ISO a little over 2 GB and runnable installs in the sub‑3 GB...

Microsoft has quietly published official Windows 11, version 25H2 ISO images to the Windows Insider Preview downloads area for Release Preview Insiders, completing a key piece of release scaffolding even as the update continues to be distributed to most PCs as a lightweight enablement package...

Windows 11’s crash screen may look familiar, but the reasons behind the crash and the route to recovery are rarely simple — this feature walks through practical, verified BSOD (and the newer black crash‑screen) troubleshooting, consolidates the basic steps Guiding Tech outlines, and layers in...

Microsoft has made Windows 11, version 25H2 available to testers in the Windows Insider Release Preview channel, delivering the update primarily as a lightweight enablement package (eKB) that flips features already staged on 24H2 devices — while Microsoft delays broad ISO publication and...

Microsoft quietly pulled back the promised ISO images for Windows 11, version 25H2 this week, updating its Release Preview announcement to say the ISOs are “delayed and coming soon” even as the update itself lands in the Release Preview channel as an enablement-package style release. Background...

Tiny11’s refreshed Builder recasts Windows 11 as a lean, privacy-minded alternative for users who don’t want Microsoft’s inbox apps, Copilot, or forced Microsoft Account flows—and it does so at a critical moment, as Windows 10 support winds down and millions of PCs face an awkward upgrade...

Windows 11 gives you more ways to capture your screen than most users realize — from the classic Print Screen key to a modern Snipping Tool with OCR and video capture — and the short, practical guide in the AOL piece distills seven quick methods for everyday use while also surfacing a few recent...

I dragged my Windows 11 desktop back into the late 2000s, and — to my surprise — the result isn’t just nostalgia porn: it’s a practical, usable environment that keeps modern security and features while restoring the things many people still prefer about Windows 7. The MakeUseOf walkthrough that...

Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday for Windows 11 24H2 quietly surfaced support for Emoji 16.0, completing the behind‑the‑scenes work that began with the August optional preview update and bringing the system emoji inventory up to the Unicode‑recommended total — but the experience is uneven...