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A recent Microsoft Windows 11 21H2 update is enabling Virtualization-based Security (VBS)

If you have an MSI motherboard and you're having issues with undervolting and overvolting your Intel CPU, it could be due to a recent Windows 11 update, which appears to have mistakenly blocked these features. According to this post on MSIGaming subreddit (via Tom's Hardware), since a relatively recent Windows 11 update, the operating system …

VBS or Core Isolation feature on Windows 11 is seemingly causing multiple problems on various tweaking tools like MSI's Afterburner and Intel's Extreme Tuning Utility (XTU), among others.

A new Windows 11 update is reportedly blocking overclocking software support in the operating system on MSI motherboards supporting Intel CPUs. But the feature causing the problem is easy to disable.

Reference for the Windows 11 requirements like TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot have been found for the first time within Windows 10. Back when these requirements were announced, many were left unamused.

Microsoft has acknowledged a severe bug in Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022 that results in data damage for devices equipped with processors supporting the newest Vector...

Microsoft has issued a warning for those out there running Windows 11 on supported CPUs. The company has found that modern chips with the new VAES instruction are "susceptible to data damage".

For many enterprise users (with the right Windows licensing) Windows 11 offers a number of security upgrades. But for more regular users, those tools may not be available.

What's changed about Windows 11, six months in? Microsoft continues to make changes, some for the better. But there's still not enough reason to upgrade from Windows 10, and here's why.

Last month, Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel were treated to a preview build of Windows 11 with a new "feature" that shows a watermark on any...