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How to play old CD-ROM games on Windows again

You have it way easier these days, but back in the day, when you wanted to play a game on your PC, you had to take a similar ...
The Verge

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update improves and breaks dark mode

Microsoft is now working on a fix for a brief white screen flash when opening File Explorer. Microsoft is now working on a fix for a brief white screen flash when opening File Explorer. is a senior ...
GeekWire

Inside the Windows 1.0 reunion: How a scrappy team shipped the product that changed everything, eventually

Members of the Windows 1.0 team at their 40-year reunion this week. L-R, kneeling/sitting: Joe Barello, Ed Mills, Tandy Trower, Mark Cliggett, Steve Ballmer (holding a Windows 1.0 screenshot) and Don ...
How-To Geek on MSN

How PowerToys' Locksmith tool helps unravel vague Windows error messages

The action can’t be completed because the file is open in another program” might be one of the least helpful messages Windows ...

Root silences ‘Average Joe’ jibes with first century in Australia

Joe Root answered all the insults about his batting in Australia with a shrug of his shoulders and a hundred that makes him ...
NPR

Head Start centers told to avoid 'disability,' 'women' and more in funding requests

Some Head Start early childhood programs are being told by the federal government to remove a list of nearly 200 words and phrases from their funding applications or they could be denied. That's ...
NPR

More cities are seeing PFAS pollution in drinking water. Here's what Louisville found

The Ohio River sends billions of gallons of water flowing past Louisville, Kentucky's pumping station every day, where the city's utility sucks it up to turn it into tap water. This story was produced ...