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    NDI Stuttering After August 2025 Windows Update: Mitigation Guide

    Microsoft has formally acknowledged that its August 12, 2025 cumulative security update is responsible for severe stuttering, lag and choppy audio/video in NDI-based workflows on affected Windows 11 and Windows 10 builds, and vendors and community engineers have published an immediate—but...
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    PowerToys for Windows: Boost Productivity with a Modular Toolkit

    Windows PowerToys is one of those quietly powerful Windows add‑ons: a free, modular toolkit that can shave minutes off everyday tasks for heavy desktop users, but it’s deliberately optional — and for many casual users it’s a luxury rather than a necessity. Background / Overview Windows PowerToys...
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    Windows 11 Build 26200.5761: Cross-device Resume, Copilot+ refinements, and QoL polish

    Microsoft’s latest Insider flight continues the slow‑roll of Copilot‑era polish and cross‑device continuity: Build 26200.5761 (KB5064093) landed in the Insider channels with a staged “Resume from your phone” flow that starts with Spotify, refreshed lock‑screen battery visuals, snappier input and...
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    AtlasOS: Debloat Windows 11 with Playbooks for a kinder, privacy-first PC

    AtlasOS delivers a deliberately stripped, privacy-focused Windows 11 experience by guiding users through a Playbook-driven debloat process — the result is a cleaner, quieter desktop that can feel kinder in daily use, but it also demands clear-eyed trade‑offs on security, compatibility, and...
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    Flyoobe 1.4: Windows 11 OOBE Toolkit with Flyo.exe and ESU

    A compact but consequential update to a popular unofficial Windows 11 installer-bypass tool has landed, and it tightens the project’s shift from a pure “requirements bypass” utility into a fuller Out‑Of‑Box Experience (OOBE) toolkit — complete with a renamed executable, a small search helper...
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    VirtualBox 7.1.12 boosts Linux 6.16 support and Hyper-V stability on Windows

    VirtualBox 7.1.12 sharpens Linux 6.16 support and Windows stability Subhead Oracle’s latest maintenance update, released on July 15, 2025, delivers kernel 6.16 readiness for Linux hosts and guests, steadier Windows behavior under Hyper‑V, and targeted fixes for networking, recording, and nested...
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    Windows 11 Android-to-PC Handoff Begins with Spotify

    Microsoft has started testing a native Android-to-PC handoff in Windows 11—beginning with Spotify—so you can start a song or podcast on your phone and continue with a single click on your desktop, complete with a one‑click app install if Spotify isn’t already on your PC. The preview is rolling...
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    GEEKOM A9 Mega: The Windows Mini PC Aiming to Rival Mac Studio in Power and Price

    If GEEKOM delivers on what it’s teasing, the A9 Mega could be the first Windows 11 mini PC that genuinely threatens the Mac Studio’s blend of sleek design and uncompromising performance—at a far lower entry price and with stronger gaming credentials. Overview GEEKOM is preparing a compact...
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    Flyoobe 1.3: Bypassing Windows 11 Gates with OOBE Customization

    Flyoobe 1.3 arrives as a practical — and controversial — answer to a simple problem: millions of otherwise serviceable PCs are blocked from a native Windows 11 upgrade by Microsoft’s hardware gates, and a growing set of community tools now lets users choose whether to accept those limits or work...
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    Copilot for Windows 11: Semantic File Search and a Redesigned Home

    Microsoft’s Copilot for Windows has taken another step toward becoming the primary way people find and act on files and apps in Windows 11, with a staged Insider rollout that adds semantic, natural‑language file and image search and a redesigned Copilot home — features gated initially to...
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    Windows 10 End of Support Lawsuit: Forced Obsolescence and AI Shift

    A Southern California resident has filed suit in state court asking a judge to stop Microsoft from turning off routine, free security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 — a legal gambit that reframes a routine product‑lifecycle milestone into a broad debate about forced obsolescence...
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    Windows 11 Canary Build 27928: Copilot Tweaks, Click to Do, and Share UX

    Microsoft has shipped Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27928 to the Canary Channel, a fast-moving test drop that continues Microsoft’s phased rollout of Copilot-driven experiences, UI refinements, and a suite of stability fixes — but it also brings the usual Canary trade-offs: experimental...
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    Windows 11 KB5063878 SSD Regression: Heavy Writes Cause Drives to Disappear

    Microsoft and SSD vendors have opened a coordinated investigation after multiple independent testers and users reported that the August Windows 11 cumulative update (KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) can, in rare but reproducible cases, cause some SSDs to stop responding or “vanish” during...
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    Scale Virtualization-based Security (VBS) for Hotpatch Readiness on Windows

    Hotpatch-ready fleets start with one infrastructure choice: enable Virtualization‑based Security (VBS) correctly and at scale — doing so is the single most important step to ensure your Windows devices are eligible for Microsoft’s hotpatch model and to materially reduce reboot-driven downtime...
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    Phison SSDs and Windows 11: Falsified doc debunked, patch under investigation

    Phison has warned customers that a circulated document purporting to come from the company — and claiming the recent Windows 11 security updates were uniquely breaking Phison-based SSDs — is a falsified communication, and the controller vendor says it is pursuing appropriate legal action while...
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    PowerToys v0.94: Settings search and Quit confirmation refine UX

    Microsoft's PowerToys team is preparing a set of small but meaningful usability fixes that aim to remove two of the most common annoyances power users report: hunting for the right toggle inside a growing Settings app, and accidentally quitting the suite when they only meant to hide it. The next...
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    TrustedTech Rebrand Signals Microsoft-Centric AI, Azure Migrations & Modernization

    TrustedTech’s name change — from Trusted Tech Team to the more compact TrustedTech — is more than a branding tweak; it signals a deliberate strategic pivot from license-resale specialist to a Microsoft‑centric cloud, AI and modernization services provider targeting mid‑market and enterprise...
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    Manual Defender Updates on Windows 11: Safe, Scalable Admin Guide

    Windows 11’s built‑in antivirus, Microsoft Defender, is normally updated automatically through Windows Update — but when that pipeline falters, administrators and power users must know how to update Defender manually, safely, and at scale to avoid windows of exposure that attackers will happily...
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    AutoDark 1.0: Simple Windows 11 theme scheduling with wallpaper sync

    TweakNow has quietly entered the automatic theme arena with AutoDark 1.0, a free, Windows 11–focused utility that promises one thing and one thing only: reliably switch Windows between light and dark mode on a schedule, optionally sync wallpapers, and avoid interrupting full‑screen apps or...
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    Staying on Windows, Not Happy: Power-User Tweaks, Update Regressions, Copilot Frustrations

    I’ve been a Windows user for decades, certified and salaried in its administration, and I still find myself reluctantly staying on the platform while privately resenting much of what it has become. The piece forwarded here — a veteran Windows writer admitting he’s “staying on Windows, but I’m...
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