That feeling is captured by art director Yulia Makhmudova in this Cascading Solitare wallpaper. Windows XP was one of the best operating systems around, and its colorful motif included tulips.

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In the Windows Release Health notes, Microsoft's developers have now explained that Safeguard IDs will be gradually removed on systems running desktop wallpaper customization software. As a result ...

Never been offered the Windows 11 24H2 upgrade? You might see it now, if the problem was a third-party customization app on ...

Windows XP (“Whistler,” named after the Whistler Blackcomb ski resort in Canada), was designed to combine both. It shipped on Oct. 25, 2001, with a Home Edition, Professional Edition and later ...

These guides will help you find your way around several generations of Microsoft’s Office apps for Windows — and Windows itself. Need to get up to speed on the latest features in Excel?

There are many practical reasons to set up an OS like Microsoft Windows in a VM rather than using it as a native installation. If you have to deal with files you can't trust, need to test multiple ...

Windows 11 is generally faster than Windows 10, but that doesn’t mean it couldn’t be better. Try these tips to speed up and stabilize your Windows 11 PC. Windows 11 does a lot under the hood ...

On Windows 11, you can change the visibility of the desktop icons. You can hide them all or each one individually for a clean desktop without clutter. Or you can show as many as you want for quick ...

Out of the box, your Windows 11 computer does not have the capability to install and run Android apps and games. Even though Microsoft once offered the Windows Subsystem for Android as an official ...

The other two men have been identified by family and colleagues as 44-year-old Jeff Keenan of Whistler and 45-year-old Alex Pashley of Idaho. All three victims were both beloved and well-known ...