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For those still on Windows 10, no doubt you will have come across tiles that suddenly went blank or the "live" aspect of them stopped working. This happened on my system, and after a long period of ...

Last month, Microsoft confirmed it could not fix a bug breaking different parts of its desktop operating system. According to the company, the problem could result in the Start menu, Windows Search, ...

StartMenuExperienceHost.exe with the friendly name Start is an executable baked into the core OS that manages the Windows 11/10 Start menu. Before Windows 10 v1903, the Start menu was handled by the ...

Microsoft has silently fixed an issue that broke Start Menu jump lists for all apps on systems running Windows 10, version 22H2. The Windows 10 jump list feature lets users quickly access recently ...

Credit: ElisaRiva, modified by IDG Comm. I love Windows, but that doesn’t mean I love everything about it. In fact, Windows can behave in a lot of very annoying ways until you make some tweaks. When I ...