Someone stripped Windows 7 down to a 69MB download – with some caveats

Windows enthusiasts have been stripping the operating system down to its bare minimum for years. Now, a user known as "Xeno" on Twitter has reduced one ...

This 8-year-old Windows security flaw is still being exploited by hackers

Apparently not. One particular security flaw in Windows has not only existed for over eight years, but has been actively ...

I tested 3 Snapdragon X Windows laptops this year - and found 3 big issues

Also: Microsoft said my PC couldn't run Windows 11, but I upgraded in 5 minutes anyway - here's how. Since then, I've acquired two more PCs that have Arm-based processors instead ...
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Lone developer shrinks Windows 7 down to 69 MB, claims 'virtually nothing can run' but that it does actually boot

And then it turned out there was such a thing as too small, as we kept losing our toasty-but-tiny-tech? Confronted with the bloat of today's Windows install, I do wish certain software peddlers had ...