I installed AppControl on my Windows 11 PC and was shocked by how much was happening in the background without me knowing.

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Microsoft is starting to roll out its promised changes to make Windows 11 cleaner, calmer, faster, and more productive.

During Microsoft's fiscal Q3 2026 earnings call, Nadella put consumer Windows front and center. As part of Microsoft's ...

Microsoft says it hears the complaints people have about the current state of Windows, and it wants to fix them. One of those fixes is another overhaul for its Windows Insider Program, the public beta ...

What broke the Start Menu search in the first place? The culprit, quite ironically, was an update that was meant to make things better. It was a server-side Bing update designed to improve search ...

Microsoft has pushed a server-side fix for a known issue that broke the Windows Start Menu search feature on some Windows 11 23H2 devices. In a Windows release health update (WI1273488) seen by ...

Microsoft is focusing on performance, reliability, and experiences this year. Microsoft is focusing on performance, reliability, and experiences this year. is a senior correspondent and author of ...

Microsoft has changed the way the Start Menu looks in Windows 11. Apart from displaying a Recommended section, it now displays a Category section, which makes the Start Menu look rather big. If you ...

Can you really get a Windows PC running like new again? Using this free tool from Microsoft, you can get pretty close. Microsoft Windows has been with us for more than 40 years at this point. Over ...