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Microsoft to End the Sale of Consumer Windows 10 Licenses on Jan 31st!
It’s been confirmed for around a year now that Windows 10 will officially enter its end of life on October 14th 2025. – Yep, put simply, those of you still on the operating system have under two years of security patches and updates left before Microsoft finally decides to put…
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Be Aware Folks! – Microsoft is Ending Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 Support Next Week!
While both the Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 userbase is now quite significantly diminished, there are still a fairly significant number of people still utilising the operating systems. Yes, while the figure might be less than 15%, if you are still residing on one of those platforms then you need…
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Microsoft Resumes Windows 11 22H2 Rollout After Gaming Bug is Finally Fixed!
Following the release of the Windows 11 22H2 update back in October, I daresay that it hasn’t escaped your attention that, in the grand scheme of things, it seemed to create a hell of a lot more problems than it solved. – The issues were, in fact, so bad that…
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Internet Explorer is Nearly Dead But Microsoft Might Finish the Job on Feb 14th!
Back in the Summer Microsoft officially announced that support for Internet Explorer had concluded and the browser was now officially in its ‘end-of-life’. – Yep, it had certainly been a pretty (well, mostly) solid 27 years worth of performance, but all good things must come to an end, and, in…
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Major Windows 11 Updates Rumoured for Release in March AND May 2023!
Officially speaking, Microsoft has now predominantly transitioned to only releasing one major update for its operating systems per year. And this is something that is probably not an overly bad thing considering that these updates do seem to typically create a hell of a lot more problems than they ever…
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Microsoft Quietly Release Windows 10 Update to “Help” You onto Windows 11 Faster
It’s been just over a year since the release of Windows 11 and so far the operating system has predominantly proven itself to be an utter failure with consumers. – The reasons for this are varied, but it typically comes down to two key points: Firstly, many don’t feel the…
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Windows 11 Update Finally Fixes Game Performance Bug
The release of the Windows 11 22H2 update has predominantly brought way more problems to the operating system than it ever supposedly solved. One of the notable and most persistent of these was a bug which, in certain games, would result in significantly reduced levels of performance. – Now, admittedly,…
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Microsoft Removes Windows 11 22H2 Update Block As Printer Bug Gets (Probably) Fixed
Despite being released for over a year now, the consumer transition rate to Windows 11 has been sluggish at best. In fact, most estimates suggest that only 15-16% of people have so far made the move from prior Windows platforms clearly indicating that while Windows 11 is new, it’s not…
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Microsoft Finally Confirms Windows 11 22H2 Update IS Causing Gaming Problems
I think it would be fair to say that despite being available for over a year now, Windows 11 hasn’t proven to be particularly popular with the PC gaming community. – A factor certainly not helped following the recent release of its first major update (22H2) which so far seems…
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Microsoft Issues Emergency Patch As Windows 10 Update Breaks OneDrive
It’s hardly any secret that the recent 2022 update to Windows 11 has predominantly seemed to cause way more problems than it was supposedly set to solve (click here for more info). In regards to Windows 10, however, with that also recently receiving an update, that one seemed to have…
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Windows 11 2022 Update Has ANOTHER New Bug – USB Removal Errors
Thankfully, modern Windows operating systems are a lot more forgiving when it comes to removing USB storage devices. Once upon a time, to prevent any potential risk of data corruption (which was very real and exceptionally common), you had to manually ‘eject’ a USB device (Safely Remove Hardware) through the…
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Google Confirms Chrome Support for Windows 7 Will End in Early 2023
Despite the fact that it has been nearly two years since Microsoft officially ended support for Windows 7, it still remains a fairly popular choice for many consumers. In fact, the last market figures show that the operating system still has an overall Windows market share of just over 10%…
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Microsoft “PC Manager” Tool Released in Beta for Windows 10 & 11
While Windows 10 and 11 both offer a number of solid tools to help you (hopefully) keep your system in tip-top condition, one of the biggest problems for the more casual user is that they are, typically speaking, fairly well hidden. – Following a Twitter post by user ‘@ALumia_Italia‘, however,…
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Windows 11 22H2 Update May Impact Ryzen 7000 Performance!
Since the release of the Windows 11 22H2 update last month, we have seen a notably large number of bugs being reported from the community. While there are too many to list in detail (click here for more info), some of them include; gaming performance dropping, Nvidia GPUs performing worse,…
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Microsoft Confirms ANOTHER Windows 11 2022H Bug – Slow File Copying!
Following the launch of the Windows 11 2022H update late last month, it’s not exactly a secret that it hasn’t gone even mildly according to plan. – First, it was noted that it was making gaming PCs (in some instances) run slower than before. Then it was noted that Nvidia…
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