Microsoft sinks even lower

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the questions we answer here on TechLink

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Windows 11 users who use a third-party

app to make Windows 11 less bad may have

trouble updating their operating system

users of start all back a thirdparty

tool that adds back elements of the

Windows 7 and 10 UI and functionality

are being blocked from installing the

newest preview build of Windows 11 due

to security or performance issues this

is significant since this preview build

is allegedly the release to

manufacturing version of the major

upcoming 2 for H2 update for Windows 11

but the supposed security issues must

not concern Microsoft too much since the

problem has an easy workaround simply

uninstall start all back upgrade Windows

then rename start all back's exe file to

literally anything that doesn't contain

start all back before reinstalling it

right click enter hacking

mode in fact fellow UI customization app

Explorer Patcher is having the same

issue with the exact same workaround as

for why Microsoft is doing this Windows

development MVP Raphael Rivera tweeted

that the company is probably blocking

unreliable High crash rate software that

is extremely sensitive to OS changes

person personally I would be more

open-minded to Rivera's point if Windows

wasn't being fooled by the world's

laziest fake

ID didn't even have to print it out or

anything to be fair it's not like these

are the only apps that may block the

upgrade according to multiple sources a

list of blocked apps even contains

programs published by Microsoft itself

these days not even Microsoft trusts

Microsoft Microsoft also doesn't trust

you to manually change your default

browser by modifying the registry in

Windows 10 and 11 this was first noticed

by it consultant Kristoff kbit after two

of his programs that let Windows admins

alter file associations to change

default apps stopped working turns out

windows February update added a driver

ironically called user Choice protection

driver that prevents the editing of

registry keys for HTTP and https URL

associations as well as the key for PDF

file Association we're trying to protect

you from your own

choices some of you may recognize those

as the three things Edge likes to open

the most now it's important to note that

you can still change your default

browser in the plain old windows

settings which may explain why colit

thinks this is a response by Microsoft

to the EU digital markets act by adding

this driver Windows 10 and 11 can't

override default browser policies for

PCS in the European economic area but

the new driver is also present on

Windows machines in the US presumably so

we can get a little taste of what life

is like over there they fancy fancy

cheese lock down computers long long why

their their bread is so long it must be

nice Intel 13th and 14th gen chips are

reportedly being returned in significant

numbers in Korea this has apparently LED

team blue to investigate the issues

according to ZDNet Korea this all kicked

off in the country when Tekken 8

launched more globally however

complaints about gaming instability on

13th gen chips go back to 2022 when they

first launched but complaints about both

13th and 14th gen processors have become

commonplace over the past few months

there are multiple reports of crashes

from different users playing different

games all with the same story during

Shader compilation an error claims

there's not enough video memory and

their game crashes interestingly all of

these reviews and reports claim that the

crashing issues start occurring after 1

to 3 months of using Raptor Lake CPUs

now some suggest the issue may be

silicon degradation the 13th and 14th

gen I9 CPUs are given so much power and

get so hot that they basically destroy

themselves over time kind of like

celebrities and professional athletes

it's not even a

joke whatever the case is these issues

are so prevalent in Korea that an

official for one of the three Korean

companies that distribute and support

Intel chips says more than 10 Raptor

Lake chips are being returned daily

Intel issued a statement to ZDNet Korea

saying they are aware of and

investigating these problems so perhaps

they'll figure out how to release a

processor that is slightly more stable

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cic.gc.ca uction to reflect their

brevity I mean can you imagine what it

would be like if I just kept talking

before we even got to the qu Google is

finally rolling out the expansion to

their find my device Network a year

after they initially planned apparently

thank goodness it's Apple's fault to

prevent stalking Google and apple

announced a joint standard for unknown

tracker alerts so Android's Bluetooth

tags couldn't be used to stock iPhone

users and vice versa while Google took a

month to get their Network to detect

mysterious air tags Tim Cook and the

copertino crew took a year to add their

half of the standard to iOS and this is

why everyone hates group projects is

that like Josie and the

Pussycats Google is also testing lookup

a new feature on Pixel phones which will

allow users to look up unknown numbers

straight from their call log rather than

copying the number and pasting it into

an external phone number search tool

this might seem like just a handy

quality of life measure for the average

person but it's potentially an extremely

useful safety tool for Less techsavvy

users who will be able to get more

information with the click of a button

before they continue talking to their

new friend spam

likely Nvidia is expected to launch at

least one RTX 50 Series GPU by the end

of this year according to graphics card

manufacturers who spoke to Taiwanese

news Outlet United Daily News in a

reassuring sign that team green has not

in fact forgotten that people once used

their products to play games apparently

Gamers can anticipate that Nvidia will

save just enough Blackwell chips from

the AI accelerator Factory to give us an

RTX 590 and maybe even an RTX 580

complete with gddr 7 memory and a heavy

survivorship bias Microsoft has

reportedly claimed in internal documents

that upcoming Windows AIP PCS with

qualcomm's arm powerered Snapdragon X

Elite processors will have faster app

emulation than Rosetta 2 the x86 to arm

translation layer that helped Apple's

Intel to M1 transition go smoother than

the smoothest thing in existence a

baby's bottom if Microsoft is correct

though this Windows transition will go

even smoother than a baby's bottom but

that's impossible so logically they must

be talking out of their baby's bottoms

does that make sense said aips will also

reportedly feature an AI Explorer tool

that can search for anything you've ever

done on your computer and if you get the

premium subscription hold it against you

it weighs your browser history on a on a

scale against a

feather and Spotify launched a beta

version of AI playlist allowing premium

users to generate personalized playlists

with text prompts the tool will first be

available in the UK and Australia where

users will be able to generate playlists

with real prompt examples like sad music

for painting dying flowers and then

further refine those playlists with

addition prompts if you're uncomfortable

with the thought of AI being everywhere

might I suggest generating playlists

with prompts like Indie Bops for when AI

takes my job or music to be hunted by

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