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5 niche Windows 11 apps that you should install on day one

Microsoft PowerToys is an official power-user toolkit from Microsoft that adds a ton of advanced functionality to Windows 11. It serves as a one-stop solution for adding many useful features to the ...

How to perform Point-in-time restore in Windows 11

Here is how to perform a Point-in-time restore on a Windows 11 PC to restore your PC to its exact state at an earlier point ...
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Why Microsoft keeps updating DirectX 12 instead of making DirectX 13

2025 marks 10 years after the official launch of DirectX 12 for Windows 10. This came after a relatively frequent release ...

How to install Windows 11 using a USB drive

With the USB drive configured and Windows 11 installed, simply turn off your PC, insert the USB drive into one of your ...

This Hidden Windows 11 NVMe Driver May Give SSD Performance A Huge Speed Boost

It sounds too good to be true, but this hidden NVMe driver for Windows that boosts performance is real — and you can try it, ...
GitHub

Updating the open source GLDirect v5, a Direct3D Device Driver for Mesa

This code was released by SciTech Software in 2007 and has enabled modern DirectX systems to play older OpenGL games. Usually just the compiled opengl32.dll has been available for download somewhere, ...
CNX Software

Radxa Dragon Q6A Arm SBC gets official Windows 11 preview

Qualcomm QCS6490-powered Radxa Dragon Q6A Arm single board computer gets official Windows 11 support (preview).