Neowin News Feed for: Desktop

System76 has launched Thelio Mira desktop and Thelio Major workstation based on Linux

Sanket Mungase — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:26:02 +0000

Two new products have been added to the Thelio series by System76, namely Thelio Mira and Thelio Major, which are more efficient and dissipate heat more effectively. Read more...

Maingear launches MG-1 Mk.II AMD Ryzen 9950X3D2 PC with "bloatware-free Windows 11"

Sayan Sen — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:02:01 +0000

Mainger is promising to deliver a "bloatware-free Windows 11" with its new MG-1 Mk.II AMD Ryzen 9950X3D2 system. Read more...

What does the 'Refresh' button on Windows desktop actually do?

Usama Jawad — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 19:28:01 +0000

As kids, many of us believed that pressing Refresh on the Windows desktop would make our games and PCs run faster. But what does it actually do? Read more...

Skytech gaming PC is a great deal for gamers at 15% off

Paul Hill — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 14:33:03 +0000

If you're in the market for a gaming PC, then check out this one from Skytech. Right now, it's discounted by 15%, meaning you can get it for under $1,000. Read more...

Dell's Tower Plus Windows 11 desktop brings good all round performance at a big discount

Paul Hill — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 15:52:01 +0000

You can now save over $300 on the Dell Tower Plus EBT2250, a powerful Windows 11 Home desktop computer with Intel Core Ultra 7 265 processor. Read more...

Review: Quntis RGB Pro+ light bar with wireless controller and premium craftsmanship

Robbie Khan — Tue, 13 May 2025 18:00:02 +0000

The Quntis RGB Pro+ is a cost-effective but high-quality light bar with a range of adjustments and mounting options. Whether your display is curved or flat, it could be what completes your setup. Read more...

Stardock Fences 5.88

Razvan Serea — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:36:01 +0000

Fences helps you organize your desktop. Fences eliminates desktop clutter with adjustable fenced areas that organizes desktop objects into logical groups for quick access. Read more...

Opera launches a new browser that can help you remain calm and focused while browsing

Sagar Naresh Bhavsar — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 12:14:01 +0000

Opera has launched a new web browser that aims to offer an “stress-free” browsing experience, with features such as breathing exercises, relaxing sounds, and more. Read more...

Edifier M60 Review: How something so small can sound so good?

Robbie Khan — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 17:00:01 +0000

Edifier seems to be on a roll lately, with some great audio products coming in at solid prices. These M60 speakers are the latest entry into the desktop speaker scene, which ticks a lot of boxes. Read more...

Stardock Fences 5.84

Razvan Serea — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 18:28:01 +0000

Fences helps you organize your desktop. Fences eliminates desktop clutter with adjustable fenced areas that organizes desktop objects into logical groups for quick access. Read more...

Endorfy Liv Plus Wireless review: a multi-device gaming mouse with a surprise up its sleeve

Robbie Khan — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 01:00:01 +0000

Endorfy, based in Poland, showed off the LIV Plus Wireless gaming mouse at Computex 2024. Let's check out all of its quirks and features and see if its performance matches the striking looks. Read more...

Review: The Turtle Beach Burst II Air wireless gaming mouse is lighter than a Mars bar

Robbie Khan — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 16:00:01 +0000

Just don't try to eat it... The Roccat brand is no more, Turtle Beach's takeover has resulted in some legacy gaming products seeing a refresh, so let's put the Burst II Air through its paces. Read more...

System76 launches the Thelio Spark with a limited time $100 off deal

Paul Hill — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 10:52:01 +0000

System76 has unveiled the Thelio Spark desktop. It is the company's cheapest desktop computer at $999. If you buy soon, you can get $100 knocked off whatever variant you decide to buy. Read more...

Stardock Fences 4.2.1.2

Razvan Serea — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 19:28:02 +0000

Fences helps you organize your desktop. Fences eliminates desktop clutter with adjustable fenced areas that organizes desktop objects into logical groups for quick access. Read more...

Stardock Fences 4.1.9.2

Razvan Serea — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 07:58:01 +0000

Fences helps you organize your desktop. Fences eliminates desktop clutter with adjustable fenced areas that organizes desktop objects into logical groups for quick access. Read more...

US PC market may have bottomed out, recovery predicted in Q4

Paul Hill — Wed, 31 May 2023 00:30:01 +0000

The PC market in the United States has bottomed out, according to Canalys. The analyst company said that it expects to see some sort of recovery take place in the fourth quarter of this year. Read more...

Reddit allows users to upload NSFW images directly from desktop

Aditya Tiwari — Fri, 12 May 2023 18:06:01 +0000

Reddit said in an announcement that it's bringing desktop image uploads to parity with mobile. The platform will now allow users to upload NSFW images to adult subreddits directly from their desktops. Read more...

Stardock Fences 4.1.2.1

Razvan Serea — Wed, 10 May 2023 15:50:01 +0000

Fences helps you organize your desktop. Fences eliminates desktop clutter with adjustable fenced areas that organizes desktop objects into logical groups for quick access. Read more...

Any.do combines workspaces and WhatsApp as it integrates with WhatsApp for teams

Anushe Fawaz — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 15:00:01 +0000

Any.do has made an announcement that it is integrating with WhatsApp for teams, hence allowing people to carry out different work-related tasks like managing projects directly from WhatsApp. Read more...

Brave launches desktop VPN and cross-device subscriptions

Paul Hill — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 13:08:01 +0000

Brave Firewall + VPN is now supported by the company's desktop browser. To start using the new feature you need to update the Brave browser to version 1.49 which has only recently been released. Read more...

Stardock Fences 4.10.06

Razvan Serea — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 11:00:01 +0000

Fences helps you organize your desktop. Fences eliminates desktop clutter with adjustable fenced areas that organizes desktop objects into logical groups for quick access. Read more...

CES 2023: Acer unveils new Aspire All-in-one desktops and notebooks, plus a smart speaker

Justin Luna — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 06:16:01 +0000

Today at CES 2023, Acer unveiled a plethora of Aspire devices, such as the Aspire S all-in-one series, and the Aspire 3 and 5. The company also introduced a new Google Assistant-powered smart speaker. Read more...

How to quickly locate a specific desktop icon

Adam Bottjen — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 13:00:01 +0000

If you have so many icons on your desktop that you are unable to find what you are looking for here is an easy way to locate stuff. Join us today in this week's Tech Tip Tuesday to find out how. Read more...

How to use Telegram's well-hidden download manager

Paul Hill — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 08:32:31 +0000

In this guide, I explain the process of finding Telegram's download manager that was introduced in March. It's not placed logically in the Telegram apps right now, making it quite difficult to find. Read more...

Ads may be coming to KDE, the popular Linux desktop

Dean Howell — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 14:26:01 +0000

While it's doubtful you'll see ads in KDE's core applications, it would be possible for distributions that wish to further monetize their work to fork these applications, placing ads in them. Read more...

Set fire to your applications with Burn My Windows 7

Dean Howell — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 18:58:01 +0000

Open-source developer Simon Scheegans is working on a project called Burn My Windows that restores classic desktop effects like burning windows to Gnome 3x and Gnome 40x, respectively. Read more...

You can now open new chats in a separate window in Microsoft Teams

Karthik Mudaliar — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 15:50:01 +0000

In the latest update on Teams for Desktop, Microsoft has added the ability for users to get a new window pop up whenever they chat with a new person which is great for multi-tasking. Read more...

Vivaldi 3.8 banishes annoying cookie messages on desktop and mobile

Paul Hill — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 18:38:01 +0000

Vivaldi 3.8 has been released today on desktop and Android. It now comes with a Cookie Crumbler that works using the same technology as adblocking lists. Cookie Crumbler is not on by default. Read more...

How to view mobile version of websites on desktops

Namerah Saud Fatmi — Sat, 17 Apr 2021 07:00:01 +0000

Are you looking to test out your website for phones and tabs? If you need to view the mobile version of any site on desktop computers for any reason, then this step-by-step guide can show you how. Read more...

How to enable the dark theme on Facebook desktop

Namerah Saud Fatmi — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 17:00:02 +0000

Facebook rolled out dark mode for its web application a while back. Since it first debuted, the feature has been tucked away. Today's guide will help you find and enable dark mode on desktops. Read more...

Google rolling out dark theme for Search on the desktop for some users

Abhay V — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 21:54:01 +0000

Google seems to be rolling out a dark theme for Search on the desktop for a select set of users, which is showing up when using Incognito mode. It also lets users set it to adhere to the OS theme. Read more...

YouTube is testing a Twitch-like clipping feature on desktop and Android

Jay Bonggolto — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 20:28:01 +0000

YouTube is rolling out an experimental clipping tool that lets you create and share clips from videos and live streams from participating creators. Clips is live only on Android and desktop for now. Read more...

Mozilla gives Hubs an overhaul and brings new features

Paul Hill — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 04:54:01 +0000

Mozilla has released a big update to its Hubs virtual reality communication tool that improves the experience on desktop and mobile. The new UI will arrive for Hubs Cloud customers on March 25th. Read more...

Facebook announces the old layout is going away in September

Paul Hill — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 21:26:02 +0000

Facebook is showing a warning to users that its old interface on the desktop will be going away in September. This will mean users are forced to use the new minimalistic design introduced this year. Read more...

MSI unveils new creator desktop PCs with 10th-generation Intel processors

João Carrasqueira — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 11:04:01 +0000

MSI has unveiled a couple of new products aimed at content creators, including desktop PCs and monitors. The PCs include Intel's Comet Lake desktop processors and up to an RTX 2080 Ti. Read more...

Discord launches noise suppression feature in beta

Paul Hill — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 08:34:01 +0000

Discord has announced the availability of a new feature called Noise Suppression. The feature is implemented with Krisp.ai, a third-party tool, that runs locally to preserve user privacy. Read more...

HP's Back to Business sale has the New Year's best deals on electronics

Steven Parker — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 21:00:01 +0000

The Back to Business sale features incredible deals like the HP 340S G7 Notebook PC that you can get for 60% off at $435.48 — to monitors like the HP 27er 27-inch Monitor on sale for $179.99 and more. Read more...

Brave 1.0 launches and Brave Rewards arrive on iOS

Paul Hill — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 08:24:01 +0000

Brave Software has announced the availability of Brave 1.0. While the release isn't particularly groundbreaking, iOS users are now allowed to use the Brave Rewards system to fund websites. Read more...

Google updates image searches with new preview design, more product details

Abhay V — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 20:02:01 +0000

Google today announced an update to Images on desktop that improves the image preview experience. Additionally, product information on searches brings it a step closer to adding ads to images. Read more...

Stardock releases DeskScapes 10 with WinCustomize library integration

Boyd Chan — Thu, 02 May 2019 09:12:01 +0000

DeskScapes 10 has been released with a number of new features under the hood, including a new desktop background manager, premium dreams, and an integrate background browsing and download interface. Read more...