This neat Windows 11 registry trick offers higher NVMe SSD performance—but it's not for everyone

Native NVMe support is an opt-in model, so enterprise users need to enable it via the registry. What some users have found ...
GeekWire

Inside the Windows 1.0 reunion: How a scrappy team shipped the product that changed everything, eventually

Members of the Windows 1.0 team at their 40-year reunion this week. L-R, kneeling/sitting: Joe Barello, Ed Mills, Tandy Trower, Mark Cliggett, Steve Ballmer (holding a Windows 1.0 screenshot) and Don ...
Ars Technica

SteamOS tested on dedicated GPUs: No, it’s not always faster than Windows

I wrote a couple of weeks ago about my personal homebrew Steam Machine, a self-built desktop under my TV featuring an AMD Ryzen 7 8700G processor and a Radeon 780M integrated GPU. I wouldn’t recommend ...
TweakTown

GeForce Game Ready Driver 591.44 WHQL released, fixes the recent Windows 11 performance bug

TL;DR: GeForce Game Ready Driver 591.44 WHQL enhances gaming with DLSS 4 support for Battlefield 6: Winter Offensive and Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, fixes Windows 11 performance drops, restores 32-bit ...
PC Gamer

Windows 3.1 included a red and yellow 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme so garish it was long assumed to be a joke, so I tracked down Microsoft's original UI designer to get the ...

Every so often, a wonderful thing happens: someone young enough to have missed out on using computers in the early 1990s is introduced to the Windows 3.1 "Hot Dog Stand" color scheme. Back in the day ...