Microsoft has now confirmed that an April 2025 Windows security update is creating a new empty "inetpub" folder and warned users not to delete it.

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Bob resurfaced from Microsoft's Graveyard to pad out the 30MB of free space in Windows XP, keeping pirates at bay.

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The app spits out benchmarking scores for five things: single-core CPU performance, multi-core CPU performance, 2D graphics ...

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If your Windows environment ever becomes unstable or corrupted, restoring it from a system image backup could fix the issue—if you take the time to prepare one in advance. This backup method ...

In context: Microsoft introduced the original version of ReFS in 2012 alongside the enterprise-focused Windows Server 2012. At the time, the company stated that the new file system was intended to ...

Windows XP was the most blissful iteration of Microsoft's ubiquitous operating system. That's an objective, empirical, placebo-controlled, peer-reviewed, double-blind fact.