Watch out Windows users, a Secure Boot update has been blocked on Windows 11 PCs due to failing on some devices — here’s how to check if you’re affected
 Watch out Windows users, a Secure Boot update has been blocked on Windows 11 PCs due to failing on some devices — here’s how to check if you’re affected

Certain older devices that cannot receive updates via their OEM may not be able to install the latest Secure Boot certificate.

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Confused about your PC specs or hardware? Windows 11’s Copilot app is getting new powers to help you ‘understand your device’
 Confused about your PC specs or hardware? Windows 11’s Copilot app is getting new powers to help you ‘understand your device’

Copilot app’s new ‘PC insights’ feature has been greeted with some skepticism.

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Microsoft wants Windows 11 and your phone to become best friends

For years, Phone Link has felt like that one app everyone knows exists but rarely remembers to open. Microsoft apparently wants to change that. According to a report from Windows Central, the company is working on a major overhaul of how smartphones in…

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Windows 95 didn’t detect installers, it ‘guessed’ based on the file name, says veteran dev — it simply checked for words like setup, install, inst, or localized equivalents

The full match list ran to six terms: setup, install, inst, imposta, ayarla, and felrak.

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You can finally install Windows on the Steam Machine, for reasons only you understand

Valve has released official Windows drivers for the Steam Machine, making it easier to install Microsoft’s OS, though SteamOS still appears to offer better gaming performance.

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Sick of trying to find a USB and Windows key? Microsoft has just made reinstalling Windows 11 less painful
 Sick of trying to find a USB and Windows key? Microsoft has just made reinstalling Windows 11 less painful

Windows 11 reinstallations will be available via the cloud, which includes appropriate drivers and doesn’t require a USB drive.

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Companies are now using automatic Windows installers to display Adware through the Microsoft Store when you install new hardware — customer immediately gets McAfee ads on their PC after connecting new LG monitor; here’s how to block the new ads

LG monitors apparently auto-install an app on your PC when you first connect them, all thanks to the Microsoft Store.

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Microsoft fixes storage-hogging Windows 11 folder
 Microsoft fixes storage-hogging Windows 11 folder

Microsoft is addressing a Windows 11 bug that caused a folder to take up several gigabytes of storage space. As spotted earlier by Windows Latest, Microsoft included the patch in its optional June 2026 update (KB5095093), which “improves disk space usage for the CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal file.” The CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal file is installed on Windows 11 PCs by […]

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Microsoft suggests Copilot is the ‘button you can press to fix everything’ in Windows 11 — here’s hoping it can fix the company’s marketing department
 Microsoft suggests Copilot is the ‘button you can press to fix everything’ in Windows 11 — here’s hoping it can fix the company’s marketing department

Microsoft needs to stop this kind of cringe marketing to change perceptions around Windows 11.

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Keep running low on storage and don’t know why? Mysterious Windows 11 file that ate tons of drive space is fixed in latest update
 Keep running low on storage and don’t know why? Mysterious Windows 11 file that ate tons of drive space is fixed in latest update

If your drive space has been mysteriously disappearing of late, the problem could be Capability Access Manager.

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