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Microsoft explains how difficult it is to manage keyboard shortcuts in Visual Studio 2026

Usama Jawad — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 07:12:01 +0000

Microsoft has claimed that changing keyboard shortcuts in Visual Studio 2026 is a "high-stakes juggling act", in which even telemetry isn't enough. Read more...

WhatsApp beta adds new Meta AI fact-check tool

Paul Hill — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 06:08:01 +0000

Meta has released a new WhatsApp beta that allows you to quickly forward messages to Meta AI to get them fact-checked. This could hinder the spread of misinformation. Read more...

OneNote is finally getting two highly requested features

Usama Jawad — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 20:38:01 +0000

Microsoft is bringing two important features to OneNote, but they are currently exclusive to Insiders on certain platforms only. Read more...

OneDrive shared folders on Windows 11 suddenly became internet shortcuts like some virus

Sayan Sen — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 23:14:01 +0000

Microsoft's cloud storage solution OneDrive is currently in the middle of a major issue but only for certain people. The service's shared folders have suddenly become internet shortcuts. Read more...

Microsoft quietly added couple new Windows 11 shortcuts for your help

Sayan Sen — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 10:16:02 +0000

Windows is a user-friendly OS as it can be used conveniently with keyboard-mouse which is why it remains so popular. There are plenty of keyboard shortcuts too, and two more have been added. Read more...

Windows 11 installer source code just got dissected revealing secret OOBE shortcut

Sayan Sen — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 22:34:24 +0000

Windows has many cool shortcuts and hotkeys that many are probably not even aware of. Interestingly, the OOBE, that helps set up Windows, also comes with a few, including a secret one. Read more...

Microsoft ships buggy Notepad to Windows 11 Stable

Usama Jawad — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 06:40:01 +0000

Microsoft has released a buggy Notepad to Windows 11 Stable users yesterday. The app contains a broken keyboard shortcut that might be essential for many. Microsoft is yet to confirm a fix. Read more...

WhatsApp is testing a 'mute' shortcut in its notifications

Sharath Ravishankar — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 10:34:01 +0000

The latest WhatsApp beta comes along with a new 'mute' shortcut that accompanies notifications when unread messages from a source exceed a certain number, making it a bit easier to deal with spam. Read more...

Vista Shortcut Overlay Remover 1.3 Released

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:27:09 +0000

Windows Vista Shortcut Overlay Remover, aka FxVisor, allows you to either way to remove the shortcut overlay arrow or to even customize it in Windows Vista, so we have written the Vista Shortcut Overlay Remover... Read more...

Vista Shortcut Overlay Remover 1.2 Released

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 09:50:49 +0000

Based on all of the great feedback we recieved, we have made some changes to the Vista Shortcut Overlay Remover utility, aka FxVisor. This version introduces the ability to choose a light arrow, and a... Read more...

Windows Vista Shortcut Overlay Remover 1.0

Steven Parker — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 14:53:16 +0000

Windows Vista Shortcut Overlay Remover, aka FxVisor, allows you to either remove or enable the explorer shortcut overlay arrow that is added to all shortcuts. Currently there is no native way to remove the shortcut... Read more...

Vista UAC: 7 Steps to delete a shortcut

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 09:03:48 +0000

Here is a interesting submission, although I'd like to point out that Microsoft is changing this behavior in future builds. Here's what would of happened if it weren't for dedicated beta testers and our loud... Read more...

Hackers Shortcut Hotmail password reset protections

Tue, 12 Feb 2002 20:23:07 +0000

Microsoft is not having a very good few days, with the IE bug fixes and all, and now comes word that hackers are having a go at the password reset protection of Hotmail. ... Read more...