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The Mrs. is getting a new laptop soon with Win 11 Home. We have not yet used a Win 11 device nor set one up. My internet reading tells me that many of the Windows forums report that "oobe\bypassnro" ...

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When I was first setting up the new machine, I logged into it with my Microsoft account and it asked if I wanted to transfer over my settings and frequently used apps from a previous PC. Since at the ...

Microsoft Monday released a test version of its next-generation file system, WinFS, well ahead of schedule. The software giant made the first beta of the new file system available to Microsoft ...