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Legacy update expands archive of vanished Microsoft downloads

Preserving not just updates, but also lots of the now-deleted optional extras Legacy Update was already extremely useful if ...

Windows 11 KB5072033 and KB5071417 December 2025 Patch Tuesday out0 0

Microsoft has released Patch Tuesday updates for Windows 11 KB5072033, KB5071417 for December 2025. Here's what's included.
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These 7 open-source apps are so good I’d happily pay for them

The Command Palette alone is worth the download. It's a significantly more powerful search tool and command executer so good that it should be built into Windows in the first place. There's FancyZones ...

Windows 11 KB5072033 & KB5071417 cumulative updates released

Microsoft has released Windows 11 KB5072033 and KB5071417 cumulative updates for versions 25H2/24H2 and 23H2 to fix security ...

Windows 3.1 included a red and yellow 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme so garish it was long assumed to be a joke, so I tracked down Microsoft's original UI designer to ge…

"The truly funny thing about this color scheme is that all the other Windows 3.1 color schemes are surprisingly rational, ...
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8 Surprising Things the Windows 11 Snipping Tool Can Do Beyond Screenshots

Whether you're extracting text or doing a visual search, the Snipping Tool in Windows is a much more versatile and powerful ...