The Dev Home app by Microsoft lets developers manage multiple devices and monitor their status using a single app. Its new version 0.13 update adds a few much-needed features to help you easily customize File Explorer while ironing out various bugs from the previous version. You can now create virtual machines in the Dev Home app. It uses Microsoft’s Hyper V to create and set up local virtual machines on your PC. This feature is experimental in the app, and the option to create a virtual machine doesn’t appear unless you enable it from the settings. Richer Windows Customisation settings for F ..read more

Do you see “Caps Lock On” and “Num Lock On” notifications on your screen after a recent update on your Windows 11 (and Windows 10) HP PC? You’re not alone. You can safely disable “Caps Lock On” or other padlock alerts by killing off the “HP System Event Utility” process in Task Manager and disabling it in startup apps. Several users told Windows Latest that they’re seeing weird screen alerts when they hit the caps or num locks, and they’re unable to figure out what went wrong. Thankfully, after some digging, we know HP System Event Utility is causing the problem. So, what exactly is “HP System ..read more

2024 is the year of Windows on ARM, and another new piece of hardware from Microsoft, the “Surface Laptop 6” with the flagship Snapdragon X Elite, has been spotted in four new benchmarks. The Surface Laptop 6 runs the Snapdragon X Elite X1E80100, which was previously spotted in the Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge (another Windows on ARM PC). As Microsoft watcher Zac Bowden previously reported, Microsoft has been working on two new Surface products – the Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6. Windows Latest has already posted benchmarks of the Surface Pro 10 with Snapdragon X Plus. Thanks to new Geekbe ..read more

Windows doesn’t make a lot of money, and due to competition laws, Microsoft cannot divert funds from Azure to fund its consumer OS projects. As a result, the company has been slowly showing more optional ads in the OS that can be turned off. Windows 11’s Start menu was recently updated to recommend third-party apps, and more ads may be coming. Let’s first discuss the current state of ads in Windows 11. I’ve previously highlighted Bing pop-up ads in Windows 11. Microsoft confirmed that the pop-up ads are one-time alerts to remind users about Bing’s GPT-4 and can be dismissed. In April, Microsof ..read more

Windows 10 is getting another feature from Windows 11, but it’s not related to the Web or MSN this time. Microsoft is introducing smaller monthly cumulative updates for Windows 10. As a result, the upcoming May 2024 Patch Tuesday update will be less than 700 MB in size, and the April 2024 optional update is already down to 650 MB. Windows updates can be huge. For example, last month’s cumulative update was nearly 900 MB, which may not be a deal for most people, but businesses with limited network resources aren’t big fans of large Windows Updates. Similarly, people in rural regions with limite ..read more

Windows 10 KB5036979 is rolling out to everyone, but it’s an optional patch that won’t download automatically. This update has a noteworthy change: it pushes against local accounts and nags you to use a Microsoft account. You can also directly download KB5036979 offline installers (.msu) from Catalog. We’ve been closely following the development of Windows 10, which has been updated with several changes in the past few months. These include Windows Copilot, a new Backup app, system labels in the Start, new MSN widgets on the lock screen, and now Windows 10 KB5036979 nags you to use a Microsoft ..read more

Windows 11 KB5036980 (April 2024 optional update) has been released for 23H2 and 22H2. This optional update adds advertisements to the Start menu for third-party apps. In addition to Windows Update, Microsoft has posted direct download links for Windows 11 KB5036980 offline installers (.msu) on its Update Catalog. KB5036980 is an optional update that brings Windows 11 23H2 to Build 22631.3527. If you’re on 22H2, you’ll get the same optional patch, but it will bump the OS to Build 22621.3527 instead. Today’s optional release is the last patch in the April 2024 cycle. If you skip the optional up ..read more

Microsoft’s AI PCs are causing quite a confusion among users, so much so that Dell published a post on AI-enabled Windows computers. The support document tries to answer all the common queries related to AI PCs, AI features, and the hardware required to run it. As the document explains, AI-enabled Windows 11 PCs have features that can change how you use your computer. To do that, they use a unique Neural Processing Unit (NPU) component to process all the AI-related tasks, reducing the burden on the CPU. According to Dell, this also improves overall battery life by up to 38%. It also state ..read more

Windows Copilot on Windows 11 (and Windows 10) is getting a big update with several notable changes, including increased character count, support for attaching files like PDF, and notebook integration. Microsoft told me that these features are rolling out via server-side update, and some of you with Copilot Pro might also see 16,000 characters. When Microsoft rolled out Copilot on the web and Windows, it was initially imited to just 2,000 characters, which was later bumped to 4,000. With a new update, Microsoft has increased Copilot’s character count to 8,000 in “Creative” mode. If you own a C ..read more

Windows 11 KB5036985 was released recently to testers in the beta channel with a few changes to the Start menu, Taskbar, and Widgets. With Windows 11 KB5036985 (Build 22635.3500), Microsoft is trying to squeeze more information into the Profile icon in the update, including links to the Microsoft 365 page. In our tests, we spotted that clicking the Profile icon showcases more information about the currently logged-in user. Using a Microsoft Account on your PC will show the email address and the OneDrive storage statistics. Clicking on any of these options will redirect you to the Account page ..read more