Tag: Windows 11
Microsoft Is Hiding Local Account Setup Instructions for Windows 11
Microsoft really wants you to use a Microsoft Account to activate your Windows 11 install and has been steadily working to hide any mention of setting up a local account instead. They…
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Microsoft Can Remember It for You Wholesale With Their New Built In Screen Logger
Today Microsoft announced Windows 11 Recall for Copilot+ PCs, billed as a handy way for you to recall information you've looked for using your PC. What it actually will be...
Read MorePodcast #771 – Intel / AMD Earnings, Intel Response to Core i9 Stability, Razer Firefly V2 Pro, WotC D&D Gaming, IoT Password Defaults + MORE!
What's more colorful than a $100 RGB mousepad? The personalities of the PCPer podcast crew, of course! Enjoy the banter and conversations we had between each other and our audience. Tune in…
Read MorePodcast #770 – Intel 13th and 14th Gen Core i9 Stability, RDNA4 GDDR6 Rumor, Windows 11 Adds Ads, Cisco Exploit, Boosted ARC + MORE!
Podcast 770 is totally not a re-branded Podcast 680. It may have the same CUDA core count, but the memory is clocked slightly higher. Also, this one has a [REDACTED] that you…
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Microsoft Keeps On Giving, Now Displaying A Watermark If You’re AI Deficient
Redmond is just cranking out the brilliant ideas, managing to come up with a new feature that beats out their ad supported Start Menu for sheer obnoxiousness. As we mentioned earlier this…
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Windows 11 Comes To Intel 11th Gen Core Systems
If you've ever tried to update a Rocket Lake system to Windows 11, you know it's not a great idea. The Intel Smart Sound Technology tech found on many 11th gen Core…
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Google Offers Long Term ChromeOS Flex Updates As An Alternative To Windows 11
Microsoft is discontinuing general support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 and their use of the POPCNT CPU instruction set in the upcoming Windows 11 patch means that older computers will…
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A Peek At The New Windows 11; USB4 Gen2 In WordPad Out
If you are curious what is in store for you in the next major Windows 11 feature update other than Copilot automatically launching at boot if you have a large enough screen,…
Read MorePodcast #746 – NVIDIA and AMD to Make Arm CPUs, Alan Wake 2 Ends the 1080 Ti Era, Bad PC Ports, Loupedeck review + MORE!
It was another week of news, rumors, game releases, four-year-old GPUs becoming irrelevant thanks to Mesh Shader support requirements, the industry freaking out about arm64 and declaring the death of x86, and…
Read MorePodcast #745 – Intel 14th Gen Launch, New FalconNW Talon, AMD Anti-Lag+ Pulled, Drop+xDuoo TA-84 Tube Amp + MoRe!
Our words flow from us at an alarming rate, but be not afraid; we are the harbingers of semi-literate PC hardware and software discussion. Also, burgers. In this episode, we discuss the VERY…
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So Much For Activating Windows 11 With Windows 7 Or Windows 8 Keys?
Microsoft have announced that you will no longer be able to activate Windows 10 or Windows 11 with old Windows 7 and Windows 8 product keys. Unfortunately they weren't very...
Read MorePodcast #737 – NVIDIA DLSS 3.5 & Monster Earnings, Case-Top GPUs, DUHD and OLED Monitors, Ryzen 9 7945HX & MORE
Do you like piña coladas, and getting caught in protracted discussions about DLSS 3.5 and NVIDIA quarterly financials? And that's just the FIRST HALF HOUR. You won't want to miss a single…
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The Status Of Windows 11 22H2 OOBE, Overly Obnoxious Bloated Experience
Microsoft slowly have made the bloatware that comes with OEM laptops redundant, adding more and more requirements to setting up a fresh computer over the years. In the past, a clean install…
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Windows 11 Is Learning About High Refresh Rates, Finally
Windows 11 does offer better support for multiple monitors than it's predecessors but it still has a lot to learn about high refresh rate monitors. If you have a setup with multiple…
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Microsoft Finally Fixed SMB Copying Speeds On Windows 11
Windows 11, version 22H2 came with an unexpected and unwanted surprise, decreased performance when copying large files from a remote machine or server. For those that updated Windows, SMB copying speeds could…
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Microsoft’s War Against Third Party UI Customization For Windows 11
There are many of us who despise the changes made by Microsoft in Windows 11, which now resembles a Mac more than a Windows machine. There are also the wonderful new features,…
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Windows 11 Slowing You Down? There’s A Patch For That
With the arrival of 22H2, bearing the same name for both Windows 11 and Windows 10, those on the newer operating system have been reporting some problems. The gamers out there will…
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A Year And A Bit Of Windows 11
It has been just over a year since Windows 11 was released to the public and currently 15.44% of machines are running it. The good news for Redmond is that they've gained…
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