Well. My face is officially red. I'm embarrassed I had something wrong about MS's Support policy, apparently. An article in Infopackets,  corrected my misapprehension. This is pretty much for folks who cannot (hardware reason: TPM) or don't wish to upgrade to W11 from W10 for whatever reason. MS (without you joining the Extended Service Program) will stop all Support for W10 on 10.25.25 ( WindowsCentral) . Everyone was overjoyed when MS announced it would continue support for W1...

    This is very hard to relate to you. I'll try to do it as factually as I can, but that will be difficult, as Nikos was a friend, as he was to many here at WinCustomize and Stardock. I should say that I haven't found a public document concerning his passing, so I'm relying on emails I received from his widow. I sent an inquiry and learned through his widow, Mrs. Adamamas, that he passed away suddenly and unexpectedly about a month ago.  I don't know what took o...

Windows has bloatware. Lots of it, too. That's no secret. Because of it, W11 is slower than it could/should be without it. "Winhance 5 (the latest version) allows you access to install or uninstall software which comes packaged with the OS: Edge, Recall, OneDrive, CoPilot as well as the ability to install other apps and packages directly from the app. You can choose from the Browsers, utilities, document viewers, and basically anything you want to install/manage or uninstall from the s...

All I can say is...if only. See the linked article for W11 2025 and abdi's other OS animations. Abdi is famous for his graphics and animations of "If only MS let it's Art Department determine things...". But, it didn't, or hasn't and we got the mediocre pablum that we have. Worse? It prevents skinning to improve it.  

I ran into a rather knotty problem when trying to import RnD's port of 2of3's WB "Endeavour" docks into Winstep Extreme. Luckily for me (maybe not so lucky for Jorge), I was able to catch him on IM and work through this and a problem my weather module had connecting as it turns out due to Bitdefender. Thank you, my friend.    Turns out, the only way I can get the WSX Preferences Theme Import to work that is, to open the Windows File Manager is by changing to the default W11 ski...

There’s a new browser concept in town: How it can help you to concentrate, work, and de-stress. Opera conducted a survey and found: 58% of participants said they sometimes feel overwhelmed or stressed while browsing the web. 83% of all respondents said they would like it if their web browser made them feel better as they went about their day. 70% of respondents said that browsing the web on their computer (laptop or PC) is less distracting than browsing on their phone. ...

So, hands high...who knew Microsoft Defender had a VPN included? Well, whether you knew or not, you only have another 24 days to use it before they remove it. In fact, it’s only because they’re removing it that I found an article telling me I had it! So, why are they removing it? My guess is as good as yours, but it might be because folks weren’t using it...d’oh...of course they weren’t: No one knew it was there and MS never bothered to tell us! Btw, VPNs a...

  Your privacy...the last vestiges of it, that is, will cease to exist on February 16, 2025. That's when Google will start (really? I bet it's been going on for decades) fingerprinting every device accessing the net.  "Fingerprinting involves the collection of pieces of information about a device’s software or hardware, which, when combined, can uniquely identify a particular device and user." - Stephen Almond, I.C.O.   Google maintains that it now has "...

Hey folks...I've seen many of you wallpaper artists (Az, Sed, tbc, JanOscar, relhom, naroon1, and others) mention (here and there) Midjourney, NightCafe, DALL-E, etc. I'd love for you to post an example of each engine you use and which engine you used to produce it. SimplexDesigns asked me who uses what, and I felt you should speak for yourselves and include what you like/dislike about them. So speak up...

Hey folks...I've seen many of you wallpaper artists (Az, Sed, tbc, JanOscar, relhom, naroon1, and others) mention (here and there) Midjourney, NightCafe, DALL-E, etc. I'd love for you to post an example of each engine you use and which engine you used to produce it. SimplexDesigns asked me who uses what, and I felt you should speak for yourselves and include what you like/dislike about them. So speak up...

Hey folks...I've seen many of you wallpaper artists (Az, Sed, tbc, JanOscar, relhom, naroon1, and others) mention (here and there) Midjourney, NightCafe, DALL-E, etc. I'd love for you to post an example of each engine you use and which engine you used to produce it. SimplexDesigns asked me who uses what, and I felt you should speak for yourselves and include what you like/dislike about them. So speak up...

MS just released an updated PC Manager widget (PCM) which isn't too shabby and which integrates with other widgets as well. Btw,  Windows+W  makes your widgets appear. PCM also has a small task bar which can remain on your desktop if you wish ( 2 in my screenie) The task bar has various apps on it like screenshot internet speed, notepad and you can add to it via the three dots, or make it disappear.  You can get additional screenies here:  https://pcmanager.microsoft.co...

It's not causing damage, and Windows Updates always leaves a cache, but this time there's no way to delete the contents which is a good deal larger than normal. PCWorld hastens to reassure us that in and of itself, the large cache causes no problems, although with so many bugs, I don't know how they can make that claim, responsibly. Anyway, those who have updated will have to wait for MS to solve this problem. Until then, you're out 9 Gb (8.63 Gb for sticklers) of disk space.

Anyone (old like me) remember the Visible Man and Visible Woman models? Maybe they weren't as far fetched as you might think... Anyway, the substance is a common food dye: the one that gives Doritos their orange color...and the skin is on a mouse. Then, using light of a certain frequency, you can see through the skin to the underlying structures.  There is a depth limitation of a few millimeters, but still...this opens up avenues for further research. Imagine Doctors could image in...

M$ is bringing ads to W10. With W11 barely scraping 30% of PC users, the reason they're doing this is all too clear: More fish in the W10 pond, and 0Patch will extend W10 another five years at least, maybe more. phantomofearth spotted this first and posted on X: "The Start menu account manager from recent Windows 11 updates is being backported to Windows 10. (present in Beta/RP build 19045.4842, disabled by default.)  pic.twitter.com/34Ub68flCt" — phantomofearth 🌳 (@phantomo...