Nearly a billion PCs are still running Windows 10, and half are too old to upgrade

During the PC maker's latest earnings call, COO Jeffrey Clarke said there are around 500 million Windows machines in the wild that are too old to ...

Windows 11's updated File Explorer remains painfully slow despite using twice as much RAM

Microsoft's solution for the sluggish Windows 11 File Explorer is more of a workaround than a proper fix. To boost response times, the OS now preloads ...
TweakTown

Splinter Cell director back at Ubisoft to work on new remake

Ubisoft is gearing up the new Splinter Cell remake, and has re-hired former game director David Grivel to once again lead the ...
Techaeris

Zorin OS 18 might be the way out of Microsoft’s AI nightmare

Privacy and user control: Zorin OS 18 respects user privacy and isn’t bogged down with AI extras like CoPilot and Recall. You ...

Hooray, Microsoft is making File Explorer faster, but it's still slower than Windows 10 and consumes more RAM. Boo

Preloading (or pre-caching) is meant to speed up the load times of File Explorer, which have, so far, been a major downgrade ...
Windows Report

Autoplay Windows: What It Is And How To Fix It Quickly

Fix Autoplay Windows problems fast with this step by step guide that explains what Autoplay does, how to enable it, and how ...
XDA Developers on MSN

Windows 11's new pre-loaded File Explorer is reportedly still slower than Windows 10

Preloading makes Windows 11 File Explorer open faster than before, at ~30MB extra RAM. Despite gains, Windows 11's preloaded Explorer still lags Windows 10's Explorer in open/close speed. That ...
TweakTown

Microsoft's plan to speed up File Explorer in Windows 11 backfires: double the RAM, still slow

Microsoft's plan to fix the slow performance of File Explorer in Windows 11 involves having the app pre-load on startup, and ...