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Microsoft has released an emergency fix for gaming issues introduced by the Windows 10 2004 and Windows 10 20H2 KB5001330 update. With this release of the KB5000842 of the Windows 10 preview cumulative update at the end of March and in the subsequent release of April's KB5001330 update, Windows 10 users have been experiencing performance issues when playing games.
Microsoft has released the optional KB5001396 preview cumulative update for Windows 10 1909 with numerous fixes that increase performance in the operating system. This cumulative update is Microsoft's April 2021 monthly "C" update that allows users and admins to preview the upcoming fixes scheduled for release in the forthcoming May 2021 Patch Tuesday.
Update 4/24/21: Microsoft has begun pushing out a fix for the Windows 10 KB5001330 gaming issues. An NVIDIA staff member has suggested users roll back to an earlier version of Windows 10 to resolve gameplay issues on devices using NVIDIA GPUs.
The new Windows 10 News and Interests taskbar news feed feature is now rolling out to Windows 10 devices worldwide. Similar to Google Discover, News and Interests will build an interests profile for logged-in users based on their historically read content.
A recent update to Microsoft's Sysinternals Autoruns program is causing the program to crash as its scans for autostarts in Windows. For those not familiar with Autoruns, it is a free utility from Microsoft that enumerates all the programs that automatically start on a Windows machine.
Windows 10 now lets you run Linux GUI apps without using a virtual machine after Microsoft added GUI support to the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Microsoft designed the WSL compatibility layer to make it possible for Windows 10 customers to run Linux binaries in ELF format natively on their Windows computers, in a PowerShell or Windows 10 command prompt.
Microsoft has added a new experimental 'Eco mode' feature to the Windows 10 Task Manager in the latest Preview build available for Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. Starting with Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21364, users will see a new option added to the process context menus in the Task Manager, which allows them to throttle process resources to release memory and CPU cycles for other tasks.
Microsoft has added a new experimental 'Eco mode' feature to the Windows 10 Task Manager in the latest Preview build available for Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. Starting with Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21364, users will see a new option added to the process context menus in the Task Manager, which allows them to throttle process resources to release memory and CPU cycles for other tasks.
Microsoft is backporting their upcoming Windows 10 News and Interests taskbar feature to Windows 10 20H2 and Windows 10 21H1, allowing far more people to access the new feature. In January, Microsoft began testing a new taskbar news feed feature called 'News and Interests' that builds an interest profile for a user and displays stories based upon those interests.
In 2018, Microsoft introduced a multitasking feature called "Windows Timeline" that lets you see a timeline of activities that you performed in Windows 10 including the webpages you visited, documents you created/opened, photos you added, and more. Windows Timeline, which can be accessed using Win+Tab shortcut, logs and organizes activities that you do on your PC and lets you sync the contents to other devices.