This tutorial will show you how to sign in or sign out of Sticky Notes for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
The Microsoft Sticky Notes app is the simple way to quickly save something for later, so you can stay in the flow. With Sticky Notes, you can create notes, type, ink or add a picture, add text formatting, stick them to the desktop, move them around there freely, close them to the Notes list, and sync them across devices and apps like OneNote Mobile, Microsoft Launcher for Android, and Outlook for Windows.
On Windows 10 and Windows 11, you don’t need to be signed in to your Microsoft account to start using Sticky Notes. Just open Sticky Notes and starting jotting away. Sticky Notes will open where you left them.
You...
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Tutorials
Windows 11 tutorials, tricks, tips, and guides.
This tutorial will show you how to open the Touch Keyboard in Windows 11.
Windows 11 includes a touch keyboard you can click/tap on to enter text. This can be handy if you have a PC with a touchscreen without a physical keyboard.
Reference:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/get-to-know-the-touch-keyboard-004f3d67-855b-27f0-6f7c-d5145f691181
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/prevent-the-touch-keyboard-from-appearing-e2b05375-908d-45ec-b7f7-729349a10c7a
Option One: Open Touch Keyboard when Tap Text Field
Option Two: Open Touch Keyboard when Tap Text Field with Pen
Option Three: Open Touch Keyboard from Taskbar System Tray Icon
Option Four: Open Touch Keyboard in Settings
EXAMPLE: Touch keyboard
Open Touch...
This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable to display information about previous logons during sign-in for all users in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
The Display information about previous logons during user logon policy displays information about previous logons and logon failures to the user (local account or Microsoft account).
A message appears after the user signs in that displays the date and time of the last successful sign-in by that user, the date and time of the last unsuccessful sign-in attempted with that user name, and the number of unsuccessful sign-ins since the last successful sign-in by that user. This message must be acknowledged by the user clicking on OK before the user is presented with the Windows desktop...
This tutorial will show you how to add (assign) or remove (unassign) mount point folder paths for a drive or volume in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
You can mount (make a drive accessible) in a folder rather than a drive letter if you want. This makes the drive appear as just another folder.
When you mount an internal or external drive in an empty folder, you will be able to access the contents of the drive from the path of the folder. The contents of the drive will still physically be located on the drive. Anything you save into this folder will actually be saved to the drive.
You can mount a drive or volume with or without a drive letter as an empty folder.
You can use this folder's path to save, copy, move, etc... to the drive...
This tutorial will show you how to change a drive letter in Windows 11.
A drive letter is a single alphabetic character A through Z that has been assigned by Windows to a physical drive or drive partition connected to the computer to reference the drive by.
If you don't like the drive letter assigned to a drive, you can change it.
References:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/disk-management/change-a-drive-letter
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/backup-and-storage/restore-system-boot-drive-letter
You must be signed in as an administrator to change a drive letter.
If you change the drive letter of a drive where Windows or apps are installed, apps might have trouble running or finding...
This tutorial will show you different ways to rename a drive or volume label to what you want in Window 11.
A volume label is the friendly name for a connected drive or volume.
An internal drive will usually be assigned Local Disk as its volume label by default.
A USB flash drive will usually be assigned USB Drive as its volume label by default.
A NTFS or ReFS volume label can be up to 32 characters in length, including spaces. NTFS volume labels retain and display the case that was used when the label was created. A FAT volume label can only be up to 11 characters in length.
You must be signed in as an administrator to rename a drive or volume.
You cannot change the name of a CD/DVD drive.
Option One: Rename Drive or Volume...
This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable allowing Remote Assistance connections to your Windows 10 or Windows 11 computer.
Windows Remote Assistance lets someone you trust take over your PC and fix a problem from wherever they are.
Remote Assistance connections is enabled by default in Windows, so you may want to disable Remote Assistance connections when not needed since it can be a security risk.
Reference:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/solve-pc-problems-remotely-with-remote-assistance-and-easy-connect-cf384ff4-6269-d86e-bcfe-92d72ed55922
You must be signed in as an administrator to enable or disable Remote Assistance connections.
This will not affect using the Quick Assist app by Microsoft.
Option...
This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable overwrite any existing dump file in Windows 11.
A BSOD (blue screen of death) error (also called a stop error) can occur if a problem causes your PC to shut down or restart unexpectedly (aka: crash). When you experience this type of error, you won’t be able to see things like the Start menu or the taskbar on the screen when your PC is turned on. Instead you might see a blue screen with a message that your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart.
When you have a BSOD, the system saves mini dump files in C:\Windows\minidump and full system dump files in C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP by default.
Windows will overwrite any existing dump file by default when a new dump file gets created...
This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable the automatic deletion of memory dumps when disk space is low in Windows 11.
A BSOD (blue screen of death) error (also called a stop error) can occur if a problem causes your PC to shut down or restart unexpectedly (aka: crash). When you experience this type of error, you won’t be able to see things like the Start menu or the taskbar on the screen when your PC is turned on. Instead you might see a blue screen with a message that your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart.
When hard drive space becomes low, the system automatically deletes both mini dumps in C:\Windows\minidump and full system dump in C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP by default.
Dumps files are needed to help with BSOD...
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off password protected sharing on your Windows 11 PC.
When password protected sharing is turned on, only people who have an account and password on your computer can access shared files and folders, shared printers attached to your computer, and Public folders on the network.
If you wanted to give access to shared items to other people without an account and password on your computer, then you will need to turn off password protected sharing.
You must be signed in as an administrator to turn on or off password protected sharing.
Option One: Turn On or Off Password Protected Sharing in Settings
Option Two: Turn On or Off Password Protected Sharing in Control Panel
EXAMPLE: "Enter...
This tutorial will show you different ways on how to enable or disable automatically restart computer on a BSOD system failure in Windows 11.
A BSOD (blue screen of death) error (also called a stop error) can occur if a problem causes your PC to shut down or restart unexpectedly (aka: crash). When you experience this type of error, you won’t be able to see things like the Start menu or the taskbar on the screen when your PC is turned on. Instead you might see a blue screen with a message that your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart.
You must be signed in as an administrator to enable or disable BSOD automatic restart.
Option One: Enable or Disable BSOD Automatic Restart in Advanced System Settings
Option Two: Enable or...
This tutorial will show you how to change to use 128-bit or 40- or 56-bit encryption for file sharing on all networks in Windows 11.
File and printer sharing is the ability of a computer running Windows to share a folder or attached printer with other computers on the same network.
File sharing allows you to make files and folders in a shared folder accessible to others on the same network to view, copy, or modify.
Printer sharing allows you to make an attached printer available to other computer users on the same network.
Windows uses 128-bit encryption to help protect file sharing connections by default. Some devices do not support 128-bit encryption and must use 40- or 56-bit encryption.
You must be signed in as an administrator...
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