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Windows Finally Supports RAR Files, No More Lying About Your Winrar License
Windows will finally be able to support .RAR files natively after many years of mild inconvenience. Windows To Support RAR Files As reported by TechCrunch, Winrar or 7zip will no longer be a necessity when trying to extract .RAR files as the format will be supported in native Windows. The…
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Microsoft Unable to Fix Windows Start Menu and Search Bar Bug
Microsoft has recently revealed a fix for a bug affecting the start menu, search bar and some Universal Windows Platform apps preventing them from starting correctly, but unfortunately its not a good fix. Windows Start Menu and UWP Bug The bug which prevents the Start Menu, Windows search bar and…
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Microsoft Confirms Windows 10 Version 22H2 is The Last
Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 Version 22H2 will be the last version of Windows 10. Windows 10 To Receive No More Updates The other day Microsoft announced in a tech community blog post, that the current 22H2 version of Windows 10 will be the final version of the operating…
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Windows 11 Introduces Photo Gallery Into File Explorer
Microsoft has introduced a major new feature to file explorer in the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23434 which brings a photo gallery to Explorer. File Explorer Photo Gallery This latest addition to the Insider Preview for Windows 11 introduces a photo gallery feature to file explorer which is…
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Steam To Drop Support For Windows 7, 8 and 8.1
As time and technology moves on old operating systems are slowly put to bed and that time is soon approaching for Windows 7 8 and 8.1 for Steam compatibility Steam Dropping Old Windows Support In an announcement from steam support, as of January 1st 2024, Steam will officially stop supporting…
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Ugreen Launches 9-in-1 USB-C Docking Station with DisplayLink Technology
Ugreen has today announced the launch of its new 9-in-1 USB-C Docking Station. Providing users with 100W fast charging, 9 different ports to meet most needs, quick file transfer and the ability to extend to up to 2 extra displays, it is a handy and compact gadget to help to…
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New Vulnerabilities Found in TPM 2.0 Library
A pair of new vulnerabilities have been found within the TPM 2.0 Library by a cybersecurity company by the name of Quarkslab. These vulnerabilities have the potential to be a threat to billions of devices What Are the Vulnerabilities? These vulnerabilities involve the Trusted Platform Module, TPM for short, which…
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AMD Addresses Rare Driver Bug Found to Brick Windows Installations
AMD has officially acknowledged the existence of a rare bug within its Radeon driver version Adrenalin 23.2.1 which caused windows installations to become bricked. AMD Drivers Bricking Windows Installs This issue was reported earlier this year and was extremely rare, those unfortunate enough to encounter it after installing the drivers…
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App-Specific Volume Mixer to Finally Be Added Back to Windows 11
Windows 11 has been a mixed bag in terms of people liking and disliking it, I myself personally quite like it ignoring all the little quirks and poor UX changes, but one change that has annoyed me from Windows 11 is the lack of an app-specific volume mixer. For the…
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Internet Explorer Takes Another Step Closer to Death!
Internet Explorer has been experiencing its death rattle for more than a few years now. And death rattle is an appropriate term as while it has been on the verge of dying for years Microsoft has always seemed a little reluctant to finally pull the plug on its once near-total…
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Microsoft is Now Trying Windows 11 Reverse Psychology Nagware!
Microsoft wants us all to make the transition to Windows 11. The only problem they have is a lot of people would rather downgrade to Windows XP than make the move to their latest operating system. – Yep, it’s hard to deny (even as an exceptionally early adopter) that Microsoft…
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Windows 11 to Unveil an Integrated Universal ARGB Lighting Controller?
It’s hard to deny that ARGB components within systems have expanded hugely over the last 10 years. Be it hardware or peripheral, it’s hard to find something these days that doesn’t offer some kind of customisable lighting functionality. – The only problem for consumers is that none of these operate…
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Google Ends Chrome Support on Windows 7 and 8!
With official support now officially over from Microsoft for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 it’s hardly any surprise that, sooner or later, third-party applications would also start to look to move away from the operating systems. There isn’t, after all, much point throwing resources at platforms that are effectively, from…
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Microsoft is Upping its Windows 11 Nagware with a New Confusing Pop-Up!
I was a relatively early adopter of the Windows 11 operating system and, despite the huge amount of criticism it has received over the last year (both rightly and wrongly), I’ve never personally had any issues with it. Well, except for the fact that Microsoft now seems to want to…
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Microsoft is Allegedly Now Strong-Arming the Windows 11 22H2 Update
The Windows 11 22H2 was released on September 30th last year and, overall, it seemed to create a hell of a lot more problems with the operating system than it solved. While I could do a deep dive down the rabbit hole of all the confirmed and unconfirmed issues it…
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