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It is time for another Windows 11 feature drop with new capabilities, changes, and fixes. After releasing the "Moment 2" update in late February 2023, Microsoft is about to ship the next release, unofficially called "Moment 3." Here is everything you need to know about it.

The Windows 11 Moment 3 update is now on its final stretch to public release. Microsoft has started rolling out the update to insiders in the Release Preview Channel, and it will soon become available to all Windows 11 users. Still, even after downloading the latest build (22621.1776), you might not have access to the new features as Microsoft is gradually rolling out the update to test the waters.

Microsoft today has issued a re-reminder about the impending end of support (EOS) date for Windows 10 version 21H2. The feature update was released back in 2021 on November 16th and it's reaching end of servicing exactly a month from now on June 13. This means Windows 10 21H2 will no longer receive quality updates or critical security updates like Patch Tuesday.
 
Microsoft will now force-push Windows 10 version 22H2 feature update on Windows 11 21H2 systems. The company has also reminded users about upgrading to Windows 11 if your system is eligible.

Microsoft has released the May Patch Tuesday update KB5026372 for Windows 11 users, taking it up to build 22621.1702. It comes with several highlights and improvements and brings all the updates made available in the KB5025305 released towards the end of April.

It's the second Tuesday of the month, which means it's Patch Tuesday time again. As such, today Microsoft is rolling out the monthly security update (also called "B release") for May 2023 on Windows Server 20H2, and Windows 10 for the latest versions, 21H1, 21H2, and 22H2. The new updates are being distributed under KB5026361, bumping up the builds to 19042.2965, 19044.2965, and 19045.2965.

Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves' tops the chart, followed by 'Renfield'. ‘The Pope's Exorcist' completes the top three.
 
The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only.
 
These torrent download statistics are only meant to provide further insight into the piracy trends. All data are gathered from public resources.

Here is your weekly recap of Microsoft news published on Neowin between April 30 and May 6, 2023. We had a lot of interesting stories, controversies, neat Windows concepts, app updates, and fresh insider builds for Windows and Xbox Insiders.

Recently, Google had decided to inject ads between emails in Gmail which rightly so, had annoyed the entire of the email service's user base.
 
Luckily, there is a simple way to dodge the ads if you are one of the Gmail users suffering from in-line ads. Currently, Google is serving these ads to users who have turned on tabs which lets Gmail segregate incoming emails into different categories like Promotion and Social and Forums.

It is probably not unfair to say that Microsoft really wants people to use its Edge web browser. The company has often adopted somewhat desperate means to coax more users into trying Edge and choosing it as their default browser.
 
Just considering the Windows 11 era, the company first came under fire due to the way it set up the default app options as it was seemingly quite tedious to go through the process. There have been aggressive ads and promotions as well, like the time Microsoft called Google Chrome "so 2008" and suggested that Edge was more secure than Chrome. This kind of ad once again appeared when trying to download Chrome, only this time it took up the full screen instead of being just a tiny prompt in the corner up top, which kind of showed how much it wants users to notice it exists. And of course, from time to time Edge also wants you to choose it as the default browser.

If you’re comfortable working with regedit, you can tweak your menu so that it works the way you want it.

The right-click menu in Windows 11 is an essential shortcut to a host of features and tools, adapting to the context of what you’re clicking on along the way. You can use it to copy and paste files, edit images, interact with the clipboard, pull up the properties of a file, print documents, share files with other people, and lots more besides.

What you might not know is you can customize this right-click menu for yourself, bringing in the applications and the shortcuts you use the most and getting rid of those you don’t need. It makes the menu more useful than ever, with the potential to ramp up your computing productivity even further.

Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania' tops the chart, followed by 'Scream VI'. ‘Avatar: The Way of Water' completes the top three.
 
The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only.
 
These torrent download statistics are only meant to provide further insight into the piracy trends. All data are gathered from public resources.

Last year, a puzzling screenshot revealed the first design clues of the upcoming next-generation Windows "12." It pictured a radical approach to the traditional UI elements, such as the taskbar, notification area, search bar, and more. Although that screenshot is nothing but a mockup, it sparked a heated discussion among users. While people argue whether turning Windows "12" into a macOS-like alternative is good, this concept video envisions a variant to please all.

It's Saturday, which means that it's time yet again to recap all the important news of the past few days from the world of Microsoft. This was an absolutely jampacked news week as you'll soon find out with items about Windows security, Microsoft Edge, and the end of Windows 10. Find out more in our latest digest covering April 23 - April 28!

Developers and enthusiasts who want to test Windows 11 and its dev tools can download the latest Windows 11 Development Environment (WDE) release, also known as "free Windows 11 virtual machines from Microsoft," from the official website. Microsoft has bumped its virtual machines to version 2304 and set the expiry date to July 18, 2023.

After almost eight years of active development and support, Microsoft is ready to announce the last Windows 10 version. What was initially supposed to be "the last version of Windows," came to Windows 11 (and the upcoming Windows "12"), and lots of other changes in Microsoft's flagship product. And now Microsoft is announcing the final Windows 10 release. According to a post on the Tech Community forums, 22H2 is the last Windows 10 version, with the end of support scheduled for October 14, 2025.

Pete Batard has released a significant update to its popular tool Rufus, an app many use to create bootable USB drives and bypass Windows 11's hardware requirements and software annoyances. Version 4.0 is now available for download from the official website and GitHub with fixes, improvements, and other notable under-the-hood changes.

Mozilla has released another bug-fixing update to address a bunch of nasty bugs plaguing users on different platforms. Version 112.0.2 is now available for download with a fix for high memory usage, broken notifications on Windows 8, and invisible text on Linux.

Rufus and Ventoy are two of the most popular software utilities used to create bootable USB media. In case you aren't aware, another similar app called WinToUSB (also called Windows To USB) received an update recently and it now supports the Windows 11 Lite ISO. Windows 11 Lite is not an official Microsoft release though, and it instead is meant to refer to the recently released Tiny11 DVD release dubbed live11. Aside from that, the latest WinToUSB 7.9 has also received other minor undisclosed bug fixes.

Mozilla confirmed a rare memory leak in recent versions of its open source web browser Firefox that occurs under rare conditions.
 
The organization released Firefox 112.0.1 a few days ago, the latest stable version of the web browser. The update addressed a issue related to cookies in Firefox. Affected Firefox versions would set the last used date of cookies thousands of years in the future, which had the result that users were logged out of web services.

Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania' tops the chart, followed by 'Ghosted'. ‘Avatar: The Way of Water' completes the top three.
 
The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only.
 
These torrent download statistics are only meant to provide further insight into the piracy trends. All data are gathered from public resources.

It's the end of yet another week and it's time again to recap all the important events that transpired in the Microsoft-verse during the past few days. This time, we have news items related to Windows features like Taskbar and LAPS, rumors about Samsung ditching Google as the default search engine, and lots of app updates. Without further ado, let's dive into the latest weekly digest covering April 16 - April 21!

When Windows 10 was released, Microsoft shipped it with a modern home screen background. With Windows 11, the company took it to a level further with multiple abstract wallpapers.
 
Microsoft also packed 6 themes in the operating system, including some really cool dark themes.
Where are the desktop wallpapers located in Windows 11?

Ant Download Manager & Video Downloader
 
Ant Download Manager (AntDM) is a tool that allows you to repeatedly increase the speed of file downloads due to multiple download streams, resume, schedule downloads, capture and download audio and video streams.

Automatically processes download errors, recovers from temporary network errors, reconnects in case of server response delays, has the ability to resume interrupted downloads due to loss of connection, network problems, computer shutdown, or unexpected power outages.