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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...

Chrome 69 to come with Material Design refresh to all users next month

Sharath Ravishankar — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 02:06:01 +0000

Google Chrome version 69, which will roll out to users next month, will bring with it a new looking Material Design refresh on all operating systems that the browser currently runs on. Read more...

Intel updates NUC kits with Coffee Lake and mini-PCs with discrete graphics

Sharath Ravishankar — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 12:04:01 +0000

Intel has announced a new set of its NUC kits and mini-PCs, all of which utilize the company's new 8th-gen core processors. One mini-PC model is also the first to feature a discrete graphics chip. Read more...

Google Chrome Canary reveals a number of noticeable design tweaks

Sharath Ravishankar — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 17:06:01 +0000

Google is testing a visual refresh of its Chrome browser in its Canary branch, with it following guidelines rumored to be a part of the company's upcoming 'Material Design 2' paradigm. Read more...

Reddit updates with new look, new features arriving in coming weeks

Timi Cantisano — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 02:16:01 +0000

Today, Reddit has announced that its new visual update will be rolling out to select users. The full rollout will happen over the coming weeks and will also offer up new features for the website. Read more...

Valve confirms Steam UI refresh at Indigo 2017

Dreyer Smit — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 12:50:52 +0000

During the Indigo 2017 conference in the Netherlands, Valve, the desktop gaming leader, announced a much needed new UI refresh for their rather ancient desktop applications, amongst other things. Read more...

HP updates the impressive Spectre x360 with bigger battery, near bezel-less screen

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 09:22:01 +0000

HP's beautiful Spectre x360 just got updated with new internals and a refined design. The new device offers significantly more battery life, by using Intel's latest processors and a larger battery. Read more...

Google is seemingly testing some big changes to the Play Store UI

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 09:30:01 +0000

Google's Play Store looks set to get a bit of a makeover as the company is testing different visual changes. These include ditching the search bar, new categories and a few other major changes. Read more...

The OnePlus 3 flagship will soon be available on O2's Refresh program in the UK

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 27 Sep 2016 08:38:01 +0000

OnePlus is known among tech enthusiasts for its devices that are exclusively sold online. But starting this week, the OnePlus 3 handset will also be available from an actual carrier, O2 in the UK. Read more...

Razer Blade notebook refresh: Better, faster, stronger, cheaper

Adrian Potoroaca — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 21:18:01 +0000

Razer has unveiled the updated version of its Razer Blade gaming notebook, featuring upgraded specs, improved performance, and the signature Chroma keyboard, all at a lower price than its predecessor. Read more...

AMD adds CrossFire support for FreeSync, Windows 10 compatibility

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 15:06:01 +0000

AMD has released new drivers unlocking CrossFire support for FreeSync and adding Windows 10 support. They also provide various new features and performance improvements to older cards. Read more...

Elephone P3000 gets an update: 3GB RAM and newer 64-bit chipset

Steven Johns — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 10:22:01 +0000

Chinese manufacturer Elephone is refreshing its P3000 smartphone, adding a faster 64-bit chipset, an extra gig of RAM and LTE support, as well as a bump up to a full-HD 1080p display. Read more...

Apple refreshes Macbook Air with Haswell and drops price

Steven Parker — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 09:01:03 +0000

In perhaps an unusual move by Apple, the company has reduced the pricing of its Macbook Air by $100 each and introduced the newer, faster Haswell Intel CPU into their complete range. Read more...

Some Windows 8.1 users don't have any reset or refresh options, but there's a solution

John Callaham — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 19:10:54 +0000

Some people who have updated from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 have found that they no longer have any reset or refresh settings, but there is a workaround they can use to restore these features. Read more...

Image of Metro-style Hotmail spotted in Microsoft ad

Brad Sams — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 13:23:25 +0000

An image of what appears to be a re-designed Hotmail interface has been spotted in a Microsoft advertisement that provides the best look yet of the total-overhaul of the Hotmail platform. Read more...

Samsung reportedly working on three new Windows Phones

Andy Weir — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 20:41:09 +0000

Samsung has been focusing heavily on its Android devices of late, but a new report indicates that it hasn't given up on Windows Phone, with three new handsets due before the end of the year. Read more...

Windows 8: How to Refresh and Reset your PC [Video]

Brad Sams — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:01:55 +0000

The Building Windows 8 blog has posted up another entry that details refreshing and resetting your PC. The detailed post goes indepth about the upcoming Windows 8 features. Read more...

Google experimenting with new mobile layout

Andrew Lyle — Mon, 30 May 2011 20:27:27 +0000

Google has begun rolling out an update to their mobile platforms. The new interface refresh comes with additional options, making it easier to get to Google apps, such as YouTube, Gmail and others, much more... Read more...

MacBook Air Sandy Bridge, Thunderbolt update expected in June

Michael Collado — Wed, 18 May 2011 10:01:14 +0000

A new report suggests that Apple is gearing up to launch an update to its MacBook Air line to include Sandy Bridge and Thunderbolt. An update in the summer would not be out of the... Read more...

iMac supplies 'constrained,' refresh imminent

Michael Collado — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 03:54:10 +0000

Apple's line of hardware have been going under a pretty steady refresh rate in the past couple of months or so. First came an updated line of MacBook Pros; then came the successor to the... Read more...

Users complain as Facebook updates photo viewer

Matthew Jones — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:50:17 +0000

Facebook has begun rolling out an updated photo viewer to all users following a limited trial last year and as with all changes to the site, Facebookers are divided over the new viewer. Around October 2010,... Read more...

Macbook Pro supplies start to dwindle; refresh imminent

Colby Swandale — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 08:51:22 +0000

Recently, supplies of the current Apple Macbook Pro line-up are starting to become tight, as signs are now showing that a refresh is imminent. 9to5mac have reported that Apple are no longer taking reservations of certain... Read more...

Google refreshes their UI

Alan Cone — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 23:02:43 +0000

Google is known for sporadically rolling out new updates or test changes to the user interface for their search engine. Recently, the search giant has added something a little extra to their web page regarding... Read more...

Google rolls out new design

giga — Wed, 05 May 2010 18:58:01 +0000

Google on Wednesday announced the release of their latest homepage and search design. The new “metamorphosis” reveals a cleaner page design with a left-aligned navigation pane and a brand new logo. The new left-hand navigation... Read more...

Apple refreshes MacBook Pro line

Tom Warren — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:42:02 +0000

Apple took their store down briefly this morning to introduce a refreshed line up of new MacBook Pros. The entire range of 13.3, 15.4 and 17 inch models have been updated with Intel Core processors... Read more...

Apple rumored to be releasing new iMacs very soon

Sam Symons — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:09:00 +0000

Another rumor has hit the world of Apple just earlier, bringing some whispers that the company has a refresh of its iMac line all geared up and ready to be released. As usual, AppleInsider has... Read more...

Microsoft preps Live Hotmail refresh

Michael Stanclift — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:51:03 +0000

Microsoft has been doing a lot this week to help boost the image of the future for their Live services, along with the recently released "wave 3" of Windows Live utilities, Microsoft has sent an... Read more...

Exclusive - Nintendo Wii SKU soon obsolete - refresh soon?

Rob Wright — Mon, 26 May 2008 11:37:10 +0000

Nintendo's hugely popular Wii console has entered the internal status of 'early warning' of a major American retail outlet, meaning the current stock-keeping unit will start being phased out within 90 days and will be... Read more...

Windows XP SP3 RC2 Refresh Available

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:34:22 +0000

A new "Refresh" version of Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 was made available Tuesday on Microsoft Update, according to Microsoft representatives. The primary goal of the release is for its developers... Read more...

Windows Live FolderShare Beta Refresh for PC-to-PC Sync

Steven Parker — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:05:58 +0000

Today, the FolderShare Team is shipping a Beta Refresh of both the Windows Live FolderShare website and client that offers some great improvements to the Windows Live FolderShare service at https://www.foldershare.com/. Those improvements include: ... Read more...

Microsoft releases Windows Vista SP1 RC Refresh 2

Steven Parker — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:37:10 +0000

The Windows team stepped up a gear and have released SP1 RC (Release Candidate) Refresh 2 today. In the past this probably would of been called RC3. Microsoft said this release would reach just 15,000... Read more...

Vista SP1 RC Refresh Public Availability Program 936330

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:26:24 +0000

Install Windows Vista SP1 Release Candidate through Windows UpdateWindows Vista Service Pack 1 RC Refresh is available to Beta testers through Windows Update. Experience the WU installation path for Windows Vista SP1 by following these... Read more...

MS releases another Vista SP1 RC refresh to 15,000 testers

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:55:53 +0000

Mary Jo Foley, an online journalist often given the title of “The Microsoft Watcher”, is reporting that the software giant has released a new refresh build of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RC (build 17128... Read more...

Microsoft Robotics Studio (1.5) Refresh

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:21:24 +0000

applications. As a platform, our intent is also to enable third parties to supply support for new hardware, technologies, and tools, just as Microsoft Windows provides a platform for others to bring their products and... Read more...

Windows XP SP3 RC Refresh (Build 3264) on Connect

Neowin Staff — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:04:57 +0000

Oh wow, Thanks Microsoft! They have just posted a refresh of Windows XP Service Pack 3. So if you are still stuck on XP, by choice or not and you're a tester.. then it's available... Read more...

Microsoft to launch test build of IE refresh In December

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:55:29 +0000

Back in April 2006, we made a change to how Internet Explorer handled embedded controls used on some webpages. Some sites required users to "click to activate" before they could interact with the control. Microsoft... Read more...

MacBook Refresh Doesn't Have 'Santa Rosa'

Wed, 16 May 2007 18:54:55 +0000

Apple critics will be happy to know that Apple's refreshed MacBook line of laptops doesn't include Intel's recently announced "Santa Rosa" update to Centrino. Santa Rosa replaces the existing Centrino Duo platform and splits it... Read more...

IE7 Virtual PC Image and IE6 Virtual PC Image Refresh

Steven Parker — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:23:42 +0000

From the IEBlog: Hello! Just wanted to give you a quick update that we've dropped two new VPC images that you can use with the free copy of Virtual PC 2007. The first is... Read more...

Microsoft Mobile 10.7 Beta Refresh

Neowin Staff — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 12:49:47 +0000

Hello everyone, After months of waiting the new G2 bits are here for both Smartphone and Pocket PC devices! Before installing the new bits you will need to uninstall the current build from your... Read more...

Windows Server 2003 Beta Refresh 2 (build 2805) on Connect

Steven Parker — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:45:06 +0000

The Windows Serviceability Team has posted the Beta 2 Refresh of Windows Server 2003 SP2 to connect. Testers have been invited to install build 2805 of the service pack both on Windows Server 2003 R2... Read more...