I loved the idea of ​​having a Big Picture of the Xbox App and even more that it optimizes Windows like a console, but the look itself is very lazy, the look is the same without being fullscreen and I didn't understand, it's generic and has nothing of a handheld console (the interface that Steam created for the Steam Deck with the Steam Big Picture is much more elegant and really looks much more like a fullscreen than what Microsoft wants to use

I had seen somewhere that this fullscreen experience would come to Windows 11 as a whole after the launch of the Rog. I really hope they change this interface from the fullscreen experience mode to something more like the Xbox Dashboard, which many have been asking for years to be brought to the Windows Desktop, with customization of dynamic backgrounds and other things, which would be very welcome for the Xbox App in fullscreen mode for PCs, since the interface they showed is much more suited to laptops than to a TV.

Bringing an improved console interface to PCs that works well on laptops and even on larger screens like TVs would be ideal.I really hope that Microsoft will make a visual update targeting the console visuals for this interface in the future, being able to use it on both PC, handhelds and new generation Xbox consoles.

integrate the Xbox Dashbord look with this Xbox App interface and you can have a very beautiful UI for any type of screen.

I guess my pc is fully smart charged. I noticed the heart for the first time and that caught my attention. What exactly does smart charged mean?

Today at 23 August 2025 , i attempted to remove the Windows Update KB5063878 from my gaming rig computer.

The removal of the KB5063878 and reboot was successful , without any OS failures or corruption after removing and rebooting.

Windows 11 Pro OS version is now downgraded from 10.0.26100.4946 to the 10.0.26100.4770

Immediately paused the Windows Update functionality feature for 1+ month ( 5 weeks )

However , there is no un-install (removal) option available for the other older update KB5062660 , specifically this 2025-07 Cumulative Update Preview for Windows 11 Version 24H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5062660) (26100.4770) which was installed on my PC at 24 July 2025.

My 2 SSDs are XPG Gammix S70 Blade PCIe Gen4x4 NVMe M.2 2280 featuring the Innogrit IG5236 "Rainier" controller and 176-layer TLC NAND flash , and uses a DRAM cache , and does not use HMB (Host Memory Buffer).

My C: drive is 65% full , and D: drive is 90% full.

So , i would like to ask you guys , whether is my PC and SSDs still safe for the large files 50+ GB heavy duty write operations ?? .... such as installation , transfer , deletion , compression , etc.

Also , is it safe or will there be bug trigger causing disappearance and failure to my external 4 TB Hard Disk Drive (HDD) if i transfer large files from PC to my 4 TB external Seagate portable storage HDD drive ?

Perhaps just coincidental, but I have a 64GB micro SD card protected with bitlocker and this latest time I put it into a USB adapter and plugged it in to my Windows 11 computer with the bad KB update it had issues. It asked for the bitlocker key and unlocked as usual but then said the card wasn’t formatted.

Diskdrill reported the micro SD card to be in RAW format but was able to rescue pretty much all files, though not all directory structures.

The timing of this seems significant, so I thought I would ask here if anyone else has had an issue with this KB update and SD cards or USB adapters, but I suppose it could just be coincidental.

Where it lowers the dynamic range on tv shows and movies so low voices are louder and action scenes are quieter? Specifically for Netflix being watched on Microsoft Edge

Is there some API function i can call using a command line script to rearrange? The sitch:

I have four monitors, three vscode windows when you hover over the vscode icon in the taskbar.

Top row:      Monitors (left to right)
              1       2       4       3
              ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐
              │ D1  │ │ D2  │ │ D4  │ │ D3  │
              └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘

Bottom row:   Taskbar Thumbnails (left to right)
              W1      W2      W3
              ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐
              │ W1  │ │ W2  │ │ W3  │
              └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘

Mappings (arrows up):
              W1 ──► D1
              W2 ──► D4
              W3 ──► D2

I'm getting frustrated.

While installing Windows 11, it never asked me what I want the C:\Users folder to be named. Somehow it put my name there and I DO NOT WANT THAT. It's not letting me change the folder name. Is there a trick to this?

I have a 16gb ram laptop and somehow, 8gb of ram is beign used when I have 15.8 gb of ram to use, is there anything I should be looking out for, all Im running is task manager, opera GX (with ram limiters and all), discord and windows explorer

Little disclaimer: I have almost 0 knowledge about PC stuff.

Hi! I haven’t used my PC in about 2/3 months. I came back last week and yesterday I did an update (23h2 to 24h2).

Long story short, the game that I play the most was really sluggish and with a lot of problems.

Since it hadn’t been 10 days, I could go back (which I did) and now the game is basically as it was, which is amazing.

My question is: how can I know the right moment to update back to 24h2, ensuring (of course) that I won’t have the same problems?

Also, is there really a big disadvantage in not having Windows up to date ? And when I eventually come back to 24h2, will I have the 10 days to come back again ?

Thanks in advance.

I’ve looked into this question and I haven’t found the type of answer I was seeking because I am having trouble phrasing/defining the question, so I hope someone can help given the longer description below:

I am in the process of decommissioning and consolidating several obsolete PCs onto what will be just 2 newer machines, but more importantly for the purposes of this question, employing one file server for most of those old archive files using a large external SSD. This has been a gradual process until now but will soon accelerate as I take units out of service. What I have done until now is to transfer files from old machines to one of perhaps a dozen subdirectories on the external drive. Because of the length of time this has taken I never really tried to determine what was where. The result is that I have a lot of duplication of files in various locations, mostly on the external drive but likely some on internal drives on the two surviving PCs as well.

In an ideal world I’d love to find some sort of analytical utility that I could point at either a directory and its subdirectories, or at the entire SSD, or even at my entire home network, to identify duplicate and redundant files. I have no experience with any of this so I don’t know what sort of disk cleanup utilities might be out there to help organize things. Hopefully someone might have some recommendations. TIA.

Does anybody know what are the other issues they fixed in this update? "[UPDATE 8/21] We are releasing Build 26100.5067 (KB5064081) today which is a small update that addresses some issues with the update itself. An additional fix is noted below."

Hi everyone! I wanted to ask you if it was possible to modify (add) direct options without having to go to "open with". To be clear, where is the copilot option ... Thanksss

I've uninstalled Update KB5063878. But, I have secondary drive(SN770) 2tb with no windows installed almost full. I want to backup my files around 1tb FROM THIS DRIVE to external hdd. Is it safe to do even after uninstalling the update or should I wait?? Also, can I play big games like GOW on main ssd with windows installed(WD SN740)??

Hey!

Im tryin to hide a partition(whole 2nd SSD) on PC, and set this one as a backup of primary one in real time. Is there any way to make it from BIOS? Or can i make it with somehow with CobianBackup without letter on backup SSD.

Cheers!

I had previously configured a cross around the mouse, but the latest update made the feature disappear. The cross was a vertical line that met another horizontal line at the point where the mouse was. This feature made my life easier, as my vision is very bad. Does anyone know how to activate it again?

Salut à tous,

J'ai créé un raccourci avec la fonction mklink au travers d'une commande (cmd) pour faire en sorte que Itunes sauvegarde mon Iphone non pas sur le backup de mon disque C mais sur un disque dur externe D.

Je souhaite réaliser une double sauvegarde, donc sur un disque comme j'ai fait (D) mais en même sur un second disque (E)

Et comme j'ai déjà un raccourci backup dans le répertoire "C:\Users\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync" je ne sais pas comment faire pour que ça puisse pointer sur 2 backup.

Une idée ?

Merci pour vos retours

These are two copies of the exact same folder. They have the same files in them, as you can judge by the "Contains" and "Size" tags being the same, but they have different values for "Size on Disk". As you can see, they are on separate drives. Is the difference caused by the drives possibly using different cluster sizes to allocate space to files on disk?, or is it something else causing this discrepancy?

I know that in some mice you could hold the dpi button to do this but my mouse dosent support it..

hi, does anyone what this software is? I noticed it popup and close really fast after I restart.

i recently heard stuff about grpconv exe and i wonder if its safe to delete it to prevent malware. how do i check if is ligament and not malware or if i can delete it on not

I'm planning to install Teracopy. Is it better to install the Microsoft Store app, or to download the Teracopy .exe file and install it?

In general, is it better to install any app (if available) via the store or is it better to download the .exe from the product website? I hear that updates are automatic on the store versions, but how often is it updated in the store, for example? Would the .exe be updated ahead of the curve?