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Microsoft is cooking! Windows 11’s faster app launches released today, and everything is noticeably faster on low-end PCs. Windows 11’s CPU boost feature is no longer just for Start, Search, and shell flyouts. After installing the August 2026 security update, it is now silently active while opening apps too. We tested this on the same PC before and after KB5121003, and the difference is real. Notepad, Calculator, Chrome, VLC, PowerPoint, Weather, and even the Epic Games Store now trigger the same Low Latency Profile behavior Microsoft first rolled out for the Windows shell in June. The moment you open an app, Windows briefly pushes the CPU close to its maximum frequency for one to three seconds, finishes the launch work faster, and then drops back to idle. This is called “race to sleep,” and it is not a lazy trick. macOS and Linux already do similar things. CPU utilization does not spike the same way, so this is not your PC suddenly working harder forever. It is a short frequency burst to make Windows feel more responsive. I know people love mocking Windows performance, and often for good reason, but this one actually works. Apps open faster now, especially on budget and older PCs where every second of delay is noticeable. Windows 11 is finally getting the kind of performance work it should have had from day one.

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Microsoft's hidden Windows 11 trick makes apps launch 70% faster. I tested it on a low-end PC, and early results are promising. Right now, when you click Start, open File Explorer, launch Edge, or right-click for a context menu, and there’s often that tiny micro-stutter before anything happens. Microsoft is now testing a feature called Low Latency Profile. Once turned on, and you do a high-priority action, Windows 11 briefly pushes the CPU to max frequency for 1–3 seconds, finishes the task faster, then drops back down. In my testing on a constrained VM with just 2 cores and 4GB RAM, the difference was obvious. Edge, Outlook, Copilot, and the Start menu opened much faster. CPU usage spiked to around 96–97%, but only for a few seconds. For high-end PCs, the difference may be small. But for budget laptops and low-end Windows 11 machines, this could be a real game-changer.

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Microsoft's new Outlook takes more than 10 seconds to open an email via notifications, while Outlook Classic opens instantly on Windows 11! The funniest part? If I ignore the notification, open Outlook manually, find the email myself, and click it, I can finish faster than the notification flow. It's all because Outlook for Windows is literally Microsoft Edge running Outlook .com in a browser window. New Outlook runs through WebView2 with around 10 separate processes: GPU process, service worker, utility processes, manager, and more. It uses roughly 490MB to 636MB RAM while idle, compared to Outlook Classic sitting around 117MB to 148MB. CPU usage is also worse: around 4% idle on new Outlook versus under 1% on Classic in my testing. Microsoft shut down Mail and Calendar, keeps pushing enterprises toward this web wrapper, and still wants people to believe it is the future of email on Windows. SHAME!

Microsoft's new Outlook takes more than 10 seconds to open an email via notifications, while Outlook Classic opens instantly on Windows 11! The funniest part? If I ignore the notification, open Outlook manually, find the email myself, and click it, I can finish faster than the notification flow. It's all because Outlook for Windows is literally Microsoft Edge running Outlook .com in a browser window. New Outlook runs through WebView2 with around 10 separate processes: GPU process, service worker, utility processes, manager, and more. It uses roughly 490MB to 636MB RAM while idle, compared to Outlook Classic sitting around 117MB to 148MB. CPU usage is also worse: around 4% idle on new Outlook versus under 1% on Classic in my testing. Microsoft shut down Mail and Calendar, keeps pushing enterprises toward this web wrapper, and still wants people to believe it is the future of email on Windows. SHAME!

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Watch: What happens to your CPU when Windows 11's Low Latency Profile feature is enabled. CPU usage automatically spikes briefly to speed up the launch of Windows 11's Start menu, Notifications Center, Control Center, right-click menu, and other OS-level features. The same CPU boost is coming soon to Windows apps, which will allow them to load faster and briefly spike your CPU usage.

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Windows 11’s June 2026 Patch Tuesday update is out today, and the biggest change is Performance, not AI. Windows 11 KB5094126 finally brings Microsoft’s new Low Latency Profile to everyone. Microsoft calls it a “General Performance” improvement, but the idea is simple: when you open Start, Search, Action Center, or key shell experiences, Windows briefly pushes the CPU to max frequency for 1–3 seconds so the UI responds faster. I tested it earlier, and the difference is most obvious on budget PCs. Start feels snappier, Search opens faster, and those tiny Windows 11 micro-stutters are reduced. The catch: because of Microsoft’s Controlled Feature Rollout, installing today’s update does not guarantee it is enabled yet. You can verify it with HWiNFO by watching CPU frequency spikes while opening Start.

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It's happening! Here's your first look at a movable taskbar in Windows 11, coming soon. You'll be able to move and resize the taskbar on Windows 11, just like you did on Windows 10! It's still in internal testing, and to be clear, this video is from a virtual machine, which is why it might feel slow. Also, Microsoft won't use the right-click menu we're seeing in the video; it's only being used to quickly debug the feature. What else do you want Microsoft to improve in Windows 11? 👇

It's happening! Here's your first look at a movable taskbar in Windows 11, coming soon. You'll be able to move and resize the taskbar on Windows 11, just like you did on Windows 10! It's still in internal testing, and to be clear, this video is from a virtual machine, which is why it might feel slow. Also, Microsoft won't use the right-click menu we're seeing in the video; it's only being used to quickly debug the feature. What else do you want Microsoft to improve in Windows 11? 👇

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Microsoft teases a faster and configurable context menu (right-click menu) for Windows 11 after years of complaints! Marcus Ash, who leads Design and Research for Windows and Devices, says Microsoft is working on making context menus faster, simpler by default, and configurable to what you use most. That last part is huge. Windows 11’s context menu was supposed to fix the cluttered Windows 10 right-click menu. Instead, it became slower, padded, inconsistent, and still messy. You often need “Show more options” just to reach the old menu, which defeats the whole point of redesigning it. Now Microsoft is taking the same approach it used with Start and taskbar: give users control. Resizable Start. Movable taskbar. Smaller taskbar. Customizable Start sections. And now, configurable context menus. This is the Windows 11 reset users wanted 🥳

Microsoft teases a faster and configurable context menu (right-click menu) for Windows 11 after years of complaints! Marcus Ash, who leads Design and Research for Windows and Devices, says Microsoft is working on making context menus faster, simpler by default, and configurable to what you use most. That last part is huge. Windows 11’s context menu was supposed to fix the cluttered Windows 10 right-click menu. Instead, it became slower, padded, inconsistent, and still messy. You often need “Show more options” just to reach the old menu, which defeats the whole point of redesigning it. Now Microsoft is taking the same approach it used with Start and taskbar: give users control. Resizable Start. Movable taskbar. Smaller taskbar. Customizable Start sections. And now, configurable context menus. This is the Windows 11 reset users wanted 🥳

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Here's a video comparing old WhatsApp (native) with new WhatsApp (WebView2).

Here's a video comparing old WhatsApp (native) with new WhatsApp (WebView2).

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Some of you asked: What happens when you disable system-wide animations, transparency effects, and set File Explorer's default location to a folder or "This PC"? Result: It's way faster now with preloading enabled. However, it is still a bit slower than Windows 10.

Some of you asked: What happens when you disable system-wide animations, transparency effects, and set File Explorer's default location to a folder or "This PC"? Result: It's way faster now with preloading enabled. However, it is still a bit slower than Windows 10.

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it's that time of the year again: developers, developers, developers! decades later, Windows still remains the most open operating system for developers, and it keeps getting better.

it's that time of the year again: developers, developers, developers! decades later, Windows still remains the most open operating system for developers, and it keeps getting better.

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This is the new modern 'Run' dialog on Windows 11, coming soon. Modern Run is going to be an optional feature that needs to be turned on from Settings > System > Advanced. This means the new modern Windows Run won't replace the legacy Run dialog... at least for now. And since it's an optional feature inside the 'Advanced' settings page, we wonder if modern Run will eventually get new features...

This is the new modern 'Run' dialog on Windows 11, coming soon. Modern Run is going to be an optional feature that needs to be turned on from Settings > System > Advanced. This means the new modern Windows Run won't replace the legacy Run dialog... at least for now. And since it's an optional feature inside the 'Advanced' settings page, we wonder if modern Run will eventually get new features...

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Tested: Windows 11’s ‘faster’ File Explorer (preloaded) is still slower than Windows 10. On a 4GB RAM test machine, File Explorer used ~32.4MB of RAM without preloading. After turning on preloading, Windows quietly adds ~35MB more. So Explorer now sits at ~67.4MB in memory before you even open it. 35MB isn’t a big deal in 2025. Your browser eats that for breakfast. That's not the point of my testing. Why is the preloaded File Explorer still slower than Windows 10? I made a video to compare the two versions.

Tested: Windows 11’s ‘faster’ File Explorer (preloaded) is still slower than Windows 10. On a 4GB RAM test machine, File Explorer used ~32.4MB of RAM without preloading. After turning on preloading, Windows quietly adds ~35MB more. So Explorer now sits at ~67.4MB in memory before you even open it. 35MB isn’t a big deal in 2025. Your browser eats that for breakfast. That's not the point of my testing. Why is the preloaded File Explorer still slower than Windows 10? I made a video to compare the two versions.

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Microsoft denies rewriting Windows 11 using AI after an employee’s “one engineer, one month, one million lines of code” post on LinkedIn causes outrage. "Windows is *NOT* being rewritten in Rust with AI" -- Microsoft. Since this has Microsoft's attention, it's the right time to remind everyone about the lack of "native" code for UI-level features in Windows 11, as everything is moving to WebView2. For example, in recent Windows 11 builds, Notification Center's Agenda view is built using WebView2, and you'll notice spike in web resources (Edge-related processes) when you open Notification Center.

Microsoft denies rewriting Windows 11 using AI after an employee’s “one engineer, one month, one million lines of code” post on LinkedIn causes outrage. "Windows is NOT being rewritten in Rust with AI" -- Microsoft. Since this has Microsoft's attention, it's the right time to remind everyone about the lack of "native" code for UI-level features in Windows 11, as everything is moving to WebView2. For example, in recent Windows 11 builds, Notification Center's Agenda view is built using WebView2, and you'll notice spike in web resources (Edge-related processes) when you open Notification Center.

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Windows 11’s hidden CPU boost is now available in the May optional update! I installed KB5089573 (Build 26200.8524) and tested the Low Latency Profile again. For now, this feature does not make your apps launch faster, as that particular change is not included in today's update. However, the Low Latency Profile currently makes OS flyouts load faster. This means the Start menu opens with less lag, and Action Center feels smoother. Plus, right-click menus show less of that annoying rendering delay. On slower PCs, this should matter even more because Windows briefly pushes the CPU harder during shell interactions, then lets it drop back to idle. Some people call this a lazy band-aid, but that misses the point. macOS and Linux already have similar tricks. This is how modern systems make interactions feel instant. The real win comes when Microsoft combines this with native WinUI 3 work and less WebView2 bloat. Windows 11 finally feels like it’s being tuned for responsiveness again.

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Watch how Task Manager duplicates itself every time I close it in Windows 11 after recent updates.

Watch how Task Manager duplicates itself every time I close it in Windows 11 after recent updates.

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Microsoft still can’t decide what Copilot should be on Windows 11. Microsoft is testing a new Copilot docking experience, and it feels like Microsoft is quietly going back to the original sidebar idea. Copilot still opens as an app by default, but there’s now a new title bar menu with custom snapping options. You can keep it as a normal app, use picture-in-picture, or dock Copilot to the left or right side of the desktop. When docked, Windows 11 resizes your workspace around Copilot. Your apps move aside, File Explorer adjusts, and Copilot stays pinned to the edge instead of floating like a separate window.

Microsoft still can’t decide what Copilot should be on Windows 11. Microsoft is testing a new Copilot docking experience, and it feels like Microsoft is quietly going back to the original sidebar idea. Copilot still opens as an app by default, but there’s now a new title bar menu with custom snapping options. You can keep it as a normal app, use picture-in-picture, or dock Copilot to the left or right side of the desktop. When docked, Windows 11 resizes your workspace around Copilot. Your apps move aside, File Explorer adjusts, and Copilot stays pinned to the edge instead of floating like a separate window.

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Demo: Windows 11 just reboots when you try to bypass the Microsoft account requirement during OOBE (out of box experience, first setup screen). Microsoft has blocked start ms-cxh:localonly or start ms-cxh://setaddlocalonly oobe/bypassnro was already patched. Windows 11 will reboot in a loop when you try to bypass the MSA requirement. The setup does not proceed when you try to bypass again and again. In the case of Windows 11 Pro, you can still use Domain Join and create a local account. Windows 10 Home does not support Domain Join. These changes are only live in Windows 11 preview builds. Stable builds of 25H2/24H2 still allow you to bypass MSA.

Demo: Windows 11 just reboots when you try to bypass the Microsoft account requirement during OOBE (out of box experience, first setup screen). Microsoft has blocked start ms-cxh:localonly or start ms-cxh://setaddlocalonly oobe/bypassnro was already patched. Windows 11 will reboot in a loop when you try to bypass the MSA requirement. The setup does not proceed when you try to bypass again and again. In the case of Windows 11 Pro, you can still use Domain Join and create a local account. Windows 10 Home does not support Domain Join. These changes are only live in Windows 11 preview builds. Stable builds of 25H2/24H2 still allow you to bypass MSA.

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Windows on Arm is finally getting ready for gaming! Fortnite now runs on Snapdragon-powered Windows PCs. It's one of the major changes being rolled out to Windows on Arm PCs. Recently, Microsoft also enabled new CPU features for Windows on Arm emulation tech called 'Prism.' It now exposes AVX/AVX2, which allows high-performance computing. This enables support for game engines and resource-intensive apps that expect AVX and won’t start without it. You’ll see big gains in compatibility and mixed results in speed. Unlike traditional PCs, Snapdragon PCs offer up to 22 hours of battery life with no drop in performance when unplugged.

Windows on Arm is finally getting ready for gaming! Fortnite now runs on Snapdragon-powered Windows PCs. It's one of the major changes being rolled out to Windows on Arm PCs. Recently, Microsoft also enabled new CPU features for Windows on Arm emulation tech called 'Prism.' It now exposes AVX/AVX2, which allows high-performance computing. This enables support for game engines and resource-intensive apps that expect AVX and won’t start without it. You’ll see big gains in compatibility and mixed results in speed. Unlike traditional PCs, Snapdragon PCs offer up to 22 hours of battery life with no drop in performance when unplugged.

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Okay, here's a crazy Windows 11 bug... I connected to Bluetooth on Windows 11, and the volume keeps jumping from 50 to 100 on its own, and every time I try to bring it down, it immediately forces itself back, like it’s fighting user input 😂 It’s funny at first, but this is exactly the kind of basic reliability issue that shouldn’t exist in Windows 11. It's not a hardware issue, as restarting Windows and repairing Bluetooth fixes it. Microsoft says 2026 will focus on fixing core Windows problems, and honestly, Bluetooth stability and audio controls need to be part of that push.

Okay, here's a crazy Windows 11 bug... I connected to Bluetooth on Windows 11, and the volume keeps jumping from 50 to 100 on its own, and every time I try to bring it down, it immediately forces itself back, like it’s fighting user input 😂 It’s funny at first, but this is exactly the kind of basic reliability issue that shouldn’t exist in Windows 11. It's not a hardware issue, as restarting Windows and repairing Bluetooth fixes it. Microsoft says 2026 will focus on fixing core Windows problems, and honestly, Bluetooth stability and audio controls need to be part of that push.

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Microsoft’s preload trick works for launch speed.... but it just doesn’t fix the deeper performance problems users have been shouting about since Windows 11 shipped. Watch the before-preload and after-preload comparison of File Explorer on Windows 11. It's faster. Video in slow motion.

Microsoft’s preload trick works for launch speed.... but it just doesn’t fix the deeper performance problems users have been shouting about since Windows 11 shipped. Watch the before-preload and after-preload comparison of File Explorer on Windows 11. It's faster. Video in slow motion.

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Meta Platforms has a market capitalization (net worth) of approximately $1.44 trillion as of June 2026, and it can't build a native WhatsApp for Windows?! WhatsApp originally debuted on PCs as a web app, then they worked on a native Windows app for years, and it was the best app in the Windows Store. Last year, Meta dumped the native Windows app in favor of a web wrapper.

Meta Platforms has a market capitalization (net worth) of approximately $1.44 trillion as of June 2026, and it can't build a native WhatsApp for Windows?! WhatsApp originally debuted on PCs as a web app, then they worked on a native Windows app for years, and it was the best app in the Windows Store. Last year, Meta dumped the native Windows app in favor of a web wrapper.

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This is the new Start menu in Windows 11, coming soon to your PC: The new Start menu uses a scrollable single page layout for everything, allowing easy access without clutter. And.... the "Recommended" section can now be hidden! Apps are now clearly grouped by categories like "Utilities & Tools," "Productivity," "Games," and "Entertainment." What do you think?

This is the new Start menu in Windows 11, coming soon to your PC: The new Start menu uses a scrollable single page layout for everything, allowing easy access without clutter. And.... the "Recommended" section can now be hidden! Apps are now clearly grouped by categories like "Utilities & Tools," "Productivity," "Games," and "Entertainment." What do you think?

40,052 views • 1 year ago

iOS 26's Liquid Glass uses real-time rendering and can dynamically react to movement to change the way that light reflects off of buttons, switches, sliders, side bars, tab bars, and more. Windows 10’s Fluent Design says hey 👋

iOS 26's Liquid Glass uses real-time rendering and can dynamically react to movement to change the way that light reflects off of buttons, switches, sliders, side bars, tab bars, and more. Windows 10’s Fluent Design says hey 👋

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