Microsoft is testing a new optional feature that preloads File Explorer in the background to improve launch times and performance on Windows 11 systems. According to Microsoft, the app will load ...

Microsoft says it will add a new Teams call handler beginning in January 2026 to reduce launch times and boost call performance for the Windows desktop client. A new process, ms-teams_modulehost.exe, ...

I took the plunge recently and made the decision to buy a gaming laptop after years of being a dedicated tinkerer with a desktop PC tower. The change was necessitated by me being on the road a lot and ...

Preloading will help File Explorer launch more quickly on less powerful hardware. Preloading will help File Explorer launch more quickly on less powerful hardware. is a senior editor and author of ...

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For a while now, it’s been possible to right-click on a file in Windows File Explorer and select the Ask Copilot option, which launches the Copilot app with the file in question as part of the prompt.

Just eight months after Gemini 2.5 launched, Google has upgraded its AI models once again with the release of Gemini 3. Gemini 3 officially began rolling out widely on November 18, and even this early ...

TL;DR: Intel's Arc desktop GPUs have reached a 1% share of the global discrete graphics card market, a significant step up from previous sub-1% figures. With turbulent waters in the future of the ...

Karen Read, on Monday, filed a civil rights lawsuit against State Police investigators and key witnesses at her murder trials, accusing them of framing her for the death of her boyfriend in January ...

All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it ...

The Linux desktop has continued its slow growth. Linux has been making gains in no small part because of Microsoft Windows' blunders. Users and governments have been losing trust in Windows and ...

Our basement bedroom has a huge desktop computer that we never, ever touch -- except to dust. Why are we keeping it? A recent CNET survey found that nearly a third of us are hoarding old electronics, ...