In 2025, Microsoft unveiled significant enhancements to the Windows 11 Settings app, incorporating design upgrades and around 16 new features, while bridging the gap with the Control Panel—ushering in ...

Microsoft's Smart App Control used to be pointless, but it's about to become a lot more usable. Here's what's changing.

Recent Windows 11 updates moved a bunch of Control Panel bits to the Settings app, but there are plenty left. Here are five that Microsoft should consider modernizing. The September 2025 non-security ...

PCWorld highlights Winhance, a free open-source tool that simplifies removing Windows 11 bloatware, ads, and unwanted pre-installed applications through an easy-to-use interface.

The Control Panel has been part of Windows since 1985, making it nearly 40 years old—and even the 'new' Settings app was introduced in 2012 with Windows 8. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) ...

Note: This is an early peek at a chapter from my next book, De-Enshittify Windows 11. This book will be available for ...

In this tutorial, we will show you how to enable and use the Agent in the Settings app on a Windows 11 PC. Agent in Windows Settings is a new feature in Windows 11 Copilot+ PCs that uses on-device AI ...

Winhance, an open-source Windows 10 and 11 optimization tool, now uses WinUI 3, reduces RAM usage, and adds safer system tweak options.

Windows 11 is testing a taskbar feature that lets you share app windows directly with Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot and ...

Microsoft has released Windows 11 KB5077181 and KB5075941 cumulative updates for versions 25H2/24H2 and 23H2 to fix security ...

Anyone who's set up a new Windows PC knows you spend a good chunk of that process removing or disabling the things that make the operating system a pain. If it's not finding ways to make Windows 11 ...