Microsoft's Windows 11 insider builds let you preview and try upcoming new features and settings. Here are my five favorites this year so far and how you can check them out.

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The Photos app on Windows 11 is about to get a major update. Windows Insiders in the Release Preview Channel can now test several new features, including searching the web with OCR-extracted text and ...

Windows OS comes with an inbuilt File Explorer which everyone uses on a daily basis. Even though there are many Explorer alternatives available, the default files explorer remains the most used mostly ...

Copilot in Excel introduces new finance-focused capabilities that help teams work to their standards, use trusted financial data, and stay in control of every change. GPT‑5.5 Instant is now available ...

Microsoft has released Sysmon 15, converting it into a protected process and adding the new ‘FileExecutableDetected’ option to log when executable files are created. For those not familiar with Sysmon ...

Events-Ripper is based on the 5-field, pipe-delimited TLN "intermediate" events file format. This file is intermediate, as it the culmination or collection of normalized events from different data ...

Info: There is a CTB Locker support topic, which contains discussion about CTB Locker and the experiences of those infected. If you are interested in this infection or wish to ask questions about it, ...