Microsoft has released an emergency update to fix the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE), which became unusable on systems ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. The bug prevented the use of USB mice and keyboards in WinRE. Microsoft has fixed a serious glitch that affected Windows 11 users who needed to ...

Windows 11 customization utilities are a dime a dozen these days, and more enthusiasts are customizing their installs every day, in a bid to remove unnecessary cruft and save on disk space. NTDEV's ...

Cloudy Tactics: In another effort to steer Windows customers toward Azure, Microsoft is offering a new tool that converts virtual machines between two formats. The goal is to help organizations stay ...

Fixes a flaw that impacted the Windows reset and reinstall tools. The patch affects certain versions of Windows 10 and Windows 11. To install the patch, head to Windows Update under Settings. Get more ...

Microsoft has mitigated a known issue that caused Windows update failures when installing them from a network share using the Windows Update Standalone Installer (WUSA). WUSA is a built-in ...

Microsoft's new GPT-5-powered Smart mode, which OpenAI describes as the "best model to date", is automatically rolling out for free to Copilot users. We've tested it here at HotHardware and observed ...

EA announced that Battlefield 6 from DICE will not launch unless Secure Boot is enabled: the Javelin anti-cheat system verifies that Windows is running in a trusted environment. This requirement makes ...

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Many high-end games, professional software, and cloud security applications now require Secure Boot and TPM 2.0 features, which are only supported when the system disk uses the GPT partition format.

Microsoft is making OpenAI’s new free and open GPT model, gpt-oss-20b, available to Windows 11 users via Windows AI Foundry, the tech giant’s platform that lets users tap AI features, APIs, and ...