Windows 11 will soon detect when it's booted on a gamepad-based device, and if that happens, it'll automatically switch to a ...

Auto Dark Mode, a must-have app for Windows personalization, has been updated to version 10.4.0 with a redesigned Windows 11-like UI, new features, and a long list of quality-of-life improvements.

Installing Linux is one of the best ways to repurpose an old laptop, as the hardware requirements are usually not much more ...

The default Windows 11 search experience is a mixed bag, but surprising, Microsoft has solved the problem - you just have to ...

Windows in S mode prioritizes security and performance by allowing only Microsoft Store apps and restricting access to the command line.

Software Microsoft windows interface Windows UI for disk formatting was a temporary solution that stuck for 30 years A basic user interface that Microsoft chose to keep for three decades By ...

You can disable Efficiency Mode via Task Manager if you find that it causes Google Chrome to freeze on your Windows computer.

Microsoft employees are prototyping ways to improve Windows on handheld gaming devices like the Steam Deck. A hackathon project has looked at improving the Windows UI, keyboard, and much more.

In a leaked video posted to Twitter by h0x0d, Microsoft appears to be working on a handheld mode with optimized Windows 11 UI for devices like Steam Deck.

Some computers ship with their copy of Windows 10 or 11 in S mode, which Microsoft says is “streamlined for security and performance.” ...

“Temporary” disk formatting UI from 1994 still lives on in Windows 11 "It wasn't elegant, but it would do until the elegant UI arrived." It never did.

How it can help with system performance and battery life As mentioned above, the Efficiency Mode basically reduces the resource allocation to the particular process and hence the application using it.