As part of the Experimental experience for Windows 11 version 26H2, Microsoft recently released build 26300.8697. While the official announcement focused on fixes and improvements, a more interesting discovery was hiding beneath the surface. A new Search setting that can turn off Bing-powered web results in the Windows Search experience.

MS is insisting on AI pcs, and saying that mousing and keyboarding will be substituted to chatting to the PC.

I can't help to wonder how will it work on a company, like the one where I work, where you have 30+ people working in the same room with their PCs. It will be madness if every one started talking instead of typing...

Even when do home-office, and sit in the same table as my wife to work. It would be very anoying if both of us where talking nonstop with our computers...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/30792652

Support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?

If you bought your computer after 2010, there's most likely no reason to throw it out. By just installing an up-to-date Linux operating system you can keep using it for years to come.

Installing an operating system may sound difficult, but you don't have to do it alone. With any luck, there are people in your area ready to help!

5 Reasons to upgrade your old computer to Linux:

1. No New Hardware, No Licensing Costs
2. Enhanced Privacy
3. Good For The Planet
4. Community & Professional Support
5. Better User Control

Every day I get those fucking notifications and it drives me crazy

I need to click on them, then click on install now I know its not super much work, but it really makes me so mad, idk why.

How to make windows to just install those updates automatically?

That is my update policy, changed some stuff in O&O Shutup: but never something like don't install automatically, so idk where to change that first policy

All I'm asking is to not suddenly restart the PC while i might be working.

Thanks for any help 🙏

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/87809

Change the default location of where Google Chrome gets installed on your Windows 11 PC.

How often have it happened that you were locked out of your own Windows PC? Not anymore. Here is a surefire way to ensure that you never get locked out of your Windows 11 PC again.

Installing Windows 11 is not enough, you should keep a bootable USB handy since Windows 11 is still full of bugs. To create a bootable USB, you would need a Windows 11 ISO file. Here's how you can download it.