Just switched from macOS to windows and feeling pain cuz there is no way to copy/paste windows <> iPhone like you can do on macOS <> iOS

since clipboard is locked on iOS, how do you copy paste between your devices?

Just my personal opinion.

Hi guys I installed windows 11 since the initial releases and regret it and downgrade to windows 10 because of the windows 11 instability (i repeated this process many times) but since 8 months ago i stayed in windows 10 and currently i think my windows is a bit corrupted because I noticed significant fps drops and stutter in games. Now I decided to upgrade to windows 11 again, i have a low end pc, i wonder is windows 11 now fast as windows 10 for gaming or no...

Here my spec: Cpu:ryzen 5 2600x Ram:32GB ddr4 3200mhz Gpu:rtx 2080 And ssd for os

Btw I'm sorry for my bad English

I often need to access my PC when I'm not near it so I was wondering what is the best and most importantly the safest way to do that? I'm talking about accessing it even when it's turned off. I know my motherboard has wake on LAN so I know it is possible but how exactly? Also, I want to be able to control it, not just access my files or something like that. I have Windows 11 if it matters

I used to be able to do it in gpedit.msc, now that policy seems ignored. Doing it in services.msc seems to get reset as well, at least on bigger updates. I just want manual control of system updates...

I opened PyCharm and part of the Windows GUI crashed, here is the title bar of the PyCharm window:

Title Bar

I can see maybe 3 versions of the minimize/maximise/close buttons, can anyone identify the non-win-11 versions?

Title Bar Buttons

Here's the window title if the style of it helps too

Title Bar Title

For the buttons, I can see:

1. small square, medium square, large square with an "x"
2. small arrow pointing SW, small arrow pointing NE
3. windows 11

I think the actual title bars are:

1. light blue with the dots all along
2. darker blue (couple pixels above the light blue)
3. windows 11 (dark grey couple pixels above the dark blue)

I looked through the GUIS of windows 1/2/3/95/98/2000/xp/vista but i cant see a match - maybe those versions had lesser used alternate themes? If anyone could identify the windows versions though it'd be great, thanks

Seems like it’s no longer possible to change primary monitor from the login screen on windows 11. Anyone know there’s a work around?

As some of y’all might know, Microsoft will be removing Paint 3D from the store in a few days, so if you find it useful, then please get it while you still can

can i boot from external HDD by going to windows recover and without going to BIOS ?

because i'm scared it will corrupt the external HDD

I know the first one that’s cut in half is a proxy app called PIA but have no idea what those other two are.

I have a old laptop with 2gb RAM which currently has Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit. I want to install zen browser and obsidian and other softwares which only works on 64bit What should I do older os with 64bit or newer os with 32bit

I sometimes use my laptop in portrait mode when I'm reading, but i usually have to use a mouse because on the trackpad the orientation makes up and down left and right and viec versa when it is in portrait mde. I'm lloking for an app or a setting that will allow me to match the orientation of the trackpad with the orientation of the screen.

I saw a forum listing Better Touch Tools as an option but I found out its only for mac, so maybe any windows alternative to that would be heloful too.

I checked the Internet Archive and other sources, but only found a CD version.

The reason I want the floppy disk version is because I want to install Japanese Windows 95 on a computer that only has a floppy drive.

I would like to get the image file if anyone has it.

I translated it with Deepl, so it may be difficult to understand.

I can't wait to get back to Windows after nearly a decade of Android Tablets. Gods, I missed proper word and actual customisation features.

What are some things you do first when setting up a new PC and which new features have I missed out since 2016? What should I customize, change or set for convenience etc?

I have a fairly old laptop running Win10 (11 not hardware supported) which I've been using for some years to run music mixing software - nice to be able to take it to events or parties without risking a nice laptop to damage or loss.

It's always been perfectly capable of this task in the past, but lately has begun to intermittently struggle at times due to Windows resource demands - with successive updates Windows seems to have become far more willing to hog system resources for entirely non-urgent background tasks at seemingly random times.

I'm aware I probably could find and disable each feature, but that's far from an ideal solution.

Is there a setting, or 3rd party software perhaps, that can allow all potential resource hogging activities like this (e.g. malware scans, updates, search location indexing, and whatever else current Windows versions might decide to temporarily devote the majority of system resources to) to be toggled off until the next reboot or similar?

Or do I ultimately need to ditch the official Windows release and run Tiny10 instead?

With so many attempts by MS to make the environment intuitive like on mobile, why don't we have expansive folders for shortcuts so you don't need to open the file explorer?
From what I looked for, I didn't even find any software from up to 4 years ago that does something like this

am i missing something?

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I was using the Edge Browser for years now however today moving out due to the below reason.

1. Noticed - unwanted ai copilot appeared on the edge browser top right corner for enabling accidental clicks with no way to disable
2. Noticed - unwanted copilot ai in windows search of personal pc with no way to disable had to disable windows search all together
3. Noticed - Edge complaining to use bing as default search which has copilot enabled on it

Too much unwanted AI - I am out if i can so switched to firefox today - hope unwanted AI doesn't ruin the user experience there. Should there should be AI regulations on unwanted AI on private users machines ?

I run Arch Linux on my desktop, but I would like to change the RGB lighting on my Corsair AIO and my Sapphire GPU. Is it possible to run a Windows ISO off a Ventoy USB with persistent storage? Or even without persistence for that matter? I'd like to just boot into it to change certain things I can't do on Linux without having to dual boot.

Can someone explain to me what proquota.exe does? Came across it while scrolling through system files in search of new stuff to learn about. But can't find much on it. Does anyone know?

Hi all,

I have some game accounts that are linked specifically to my PC. I want to create a clone on an external SSD to preserve my accounts in case anything ever goes wrong with my current HDD. My question is if I buy an external SDD drive and clone everything onto that drive. Will my active user accounts remain logged in on the new drive after cloning?

I work a design job that requires me to have multiple windows up at once - ESPECIALLY folder windows. How do you guys organize your windows when you're working? Anything you've found most efficient? What I YEARN for is color coded folder icons, but that isn't a thing on desktop OR network folders. Booooooo - let me know your thoughts! I get overwhelmed when I have so many folders open at once, but that's where all of my assets need to be :'(

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I have the latest version of Windows 11 Home. I found an interesting registry setting at:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PolicyManager\default\Start\HideRecommendedSection

Does anyone know: Is there a way to change a setting here to actually, really get rid of the Recommended section on the start menu. Again, in Windows 11 Home.

Thanks.

Guys,my laptop was stolen 2 weeks ago and since that day,i try to use Microsoft's 'Find my Device' to check if the last location ever gets updated incase the laptop is activated again. But since so many days,nothing happened the battery percentage also remained the same i.e 94%. Even yesterday it was the same. But today,when i checked i shows 0% battery and the last location says 'Never Updated '. What does this mean?? was the laptop activated or not?

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Hello internet, you see I live in Germany where their keyboard layout is different but the time spent here made me acostume to their layout. However, my personal computer has allways used the "deafult" setting for a while so texting with special charachters was mainly a gamble and hindrance so now I decided to switch to the german layout (where is you wanna type @ you gotta press Alr + strg + Q) to make it easier for myself. Dispute that I cannot tolerate the fact Z and Y are switched and wanna, no, BEG, for a solution because you have no idea how much it annoys and bothers me these 2 letters needed to be switched.

I'm trying to find a note-taking app for my Zenbook with Windows Ink. I need it to have a color change tool like Samsung Notes. Any recommendations?

No. I don't think I will.

Opening an image to review for reference and I get hit with this. I literally sat and stared for a good 30 seconds simmering.

I'm going to move on from dual booting with Linux as my secondary to Dual booting with Linux primary and Tiny 11 being my side chick when I need it.

This by far isn't the only reason but between the forced AI, One Drive in general, endless needless """features""", pushing ads onto an OS we pay for access to, the BLOAT and the fact that MY pc no longer feels like I'M in control of it or the owner anymore..... I'm gone.
I'll no longer deal with how adversarial the OS has become due to the enshittification MS has rapidly embraced.
Stop trying to push garbage and just make a good, clean OS ffs.

Microsoft has become the single best advert for Linux and it's various distros.

Edit: Thanks for who ever was mature enough to report me for potentially needing intervention for self harm.
VERY mature and VERY cool. You may not like what I said here but you don't have to act like a child over it.