PowerToys is an open-source set of useful tools for Windows 10 and 11, and two of them, one of our favorites, may be getting ...

Microsoft didn’t release a major new version of Windows in 2025, but it did deliver a lot of significant updates. Here's my ...

Here’s what you need to know about the latest updates to Windows 11 as they’re released from Microsoft. Now updated for KB5072033, released on Dec. 9, 2025. A Windows launch isn’t the end a process — ...

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Over the weekend, Twitter user @phantomofearth noticed that a classic Windows Vista Ultimate feature had been added back into the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview build— video wallpapers. Video ...

Setting your desktop background to an animated video is one of those things that seems really cool at first thought, but the practical implementations—including an official version from Microsoft back ...

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In a nutshell: Thanks to the free beta testers who subscribed to the Insider program, Microsoft is constantly and publicly experimenting with new Windows 11 features. A recently discovered change ...

Microsoft is testing a feature in Windows 11 that brings video wallpapers back to the desktop. The option was spotted in the latest Insider builds and will allow users to set looping videos—like MP4 ...

Windows 11 is generally faster than Windows 10, but that doesn’t mean it couldn’t be better. Try these tips to speed up and stabilize your Windows 11 PC. Windows 11 does a lot under the hood to speed ...

Microsoft has many good ideas for Windows 11 that often do not ship, and one of them was "Dynamic Wallpapers," which, as the name suggests, could have made the wallpaper dynamic, similar to ...

In context: Nearly every major operating system comes with sleek live wallpapers. iOS has them, Android does too, and so does macOS. Microsoft had been working on a similar feature for Windows 11, but ...