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Transform Your Windows 11 Workflow: ZDNET’s 45+ Shortcuts Guide Sparks Productivity Revolution
Windows 11 is packed with keyboard shortcuts, but few users tap their full potential. ZDNET’s latest guide—a curated set of 45+ high‑impact keystrokes—offers a pragmatic playbook that swaps...
KDE Plasma’s Native Tiling Editor Achieves What Microsoft’s FancyZones Hasn’t: True OS Integration
When João Carrasqueira, a writer for XDA, accidentally pressed Meta+T instead of Ctrl+T on his Arch Linux setup, he triggered a feature that instantly felt familiar. A tiling layout editor popped...
Windows 11 24H2 Delivers 40% Faster Installs, 25% Lower CPU Usage as PowerToys v0.93 Boosts Productivity
Microsoft’s Windows 11 24H2 feature update isn’t just about new capabilities—it’s about speed. Insider and engineering data now confirm that installation times for cumulative and feature...
Android 15 and Windows 11 Workflow Test Reveals Top Time-Saving Features
After spending weeks integrating Windows 11 and Android 15 into her daily routine, technology journalist Judy Sanhz has identified the specific cross-device features that genuinely boost...
PowerToys offers the safest key disable in Windows 11, while registry edits provide permanent, system-level blocking.
A stuck key can turn a productive day into a frustrating mess—whether it’s a Windows key interrupting your game or a phantom Alt+Shift switching languages mid-sentence. Microsoft’s own...
PowerToys Replaces Paid Windows Utilities: The Hidden Trade-Offs
Microsoft’s PowerToys, once a collection of experimental utilities, has quietly matured into a comprehensive, free toolkit that replaces a surprising number of paid Windows productivity apps. A...
Windows 11 Insider Builds Add Native Keyboard Shortcuts for En and Em Dashes
Typing an em dash in Windows has always required a few extra steps—either a trip to the emoji panel or the memorization of arcane Alt codes. That changed today for Windows Insiders, as Microsoft...
6 PowerToys Utilities That Make Windows' File Explorer Finally Work Like a Pro Tool
Windows File Explorer remains the most-used desktop utility on the planet, yet its gaps – limited file previews, clumsy bulk renaming, and cryptic “file in use” errors – have driven legions...
VLC 3.0.23 Adds Dark Mode and AV2 Decoder: Here Are 9 Open-Source Apps Every Windows Setup Needs
VideoLAN’s VLC media player just received its 24th update to the 3.0 branch, bringing a dark mode option for Windows and Linux, native ARM64 support for Windows, and a massive number of stability...
Unlock Windows 11’s Secret Toolbox: OCR, Webcam Phone, Bulk App Updates and More
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Unleash Windows 11 Productivity: The Complete Guide to PowerToys' Best Features
Microsoft PowerToys has evolved from a nostalgic Windows 95 experiment into an essential, open-source productivity toolkit that reshapes how millions interact with Windows 11 daily. With a renewed...
One Checkbox to Kill Windows 11's Pesky Snap Flyout — Without Losing Snap Layouts
A single toggle in Windows 11 Settings can banish the intrusive Snap Layouts flyout that plagues multi-monitor users, without disabling the full snapping feature. For many, that small pop-up —...