This tutorial will show you how to see which power plan is currently set as the active power plan for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
A power plan is a collection of hardware and system settings that manages how your computer uses power. Power plans can help you save energy, maximize system performance, or achieve a balance between the two. A power plan is also known as a power scheme.
Changes made to a power plan settings will affect all users that use the same power plan as their default active power plan.
Windows 11 includes the following power plans by default:
Balanced = Offers full performance when you need it and saves power when you don't. This is the best power plan for most people. Allows you to change your...
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Tutorials
Windows 11 tutorials, tricks, tips, and guides.
This tutorial will show you how to export (back up) and import (restore) a power plan in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
A power plan is a collection of hardware and system settings that manages how your computer uses power. Power plans can help you save energy, maximize system performance, or achieve a balance between the two. A power plan is also known as a power scheme.
Changes made to a power plan settings will affect all users that use the same power plan as their default active power scheme.
You can export a power plan and all its settings to a POW file as a backup.
You can then import the POW file when ready to restore the power plan and its settings to any computer as it was when exported (backed up).
Option One: Export Power...
This tutorial will show you how to delete a power plan in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
A power plan is a collection of hardware and system settings that manages how your computer uses power. Power plans can help you save energy, maximize system performance, or achieve a balance between the two. A power plan is also known as a power scheme.
Changes made to a power plan settings will affect all users that use the same power plan as their default active power plan.
Windows 10/11 includes the following power plans by default:
Balanced = Offers full performance when you need it and saves power when you don't. This is the best power plan for most people. Allows you to change your Power Mode.
Power saver = Saves power by reducing PC...
This tutorial will show you how to create a new custom power plan that can be used by all users on the Windows 10 or Windows 11 PC.
A power plan is a collection of hardware and system settings that manages how your computer uses power. Power plans can help you save energy, maximize system performance, or achieve a balance between the two. A power plan is also known as a power scheme.
You can customize the default plans for your systems, or create new custom plans that are based on the existing plans.
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/create-a-custom-power-plan-technicalreference?view=windows-11
Option One: Create New Custom Power Plan in Control Panel
Option Two: Create New Custom...
This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable showing files from Office.com in File Explorer Home for your account or all users in Windows 11.
Starting with Windows 11 build 22593, Quick access in File Explorer (Win+E) is now called Home. The name Quick access has been repurposed for the pinned/frequent Folders section, and Pinned files is now called Favorites to align with Office and OneDrive. Recent and pinned files (Favorites) displayed in Home are now searchable using the search box in File Explorer even if they are not local files, so you can find Office files recently shared with you.
Home in the navigation pane is the default homepage of File Explorer (Win+E) that allows you to quickly access and view your...
This tutorial will show you how to choose a power plan to be the current active power scheme used by default for your account in Windows 11.
A power plan is a collection of hardware and system settings that manages how your computer uses power. Power plans can help you save energy, maximize system performance, or achieve a balance between the two. A power plan is also known as a power scheme.
Changes made to a power plan settings will affect all users that use the same power plan as their current active power plan.
Windows 11 includes the following power plans by default:
Balanced = Offers full performance when you need it and saves power when you don't. This is the best power plan for most people. Allows you to change your Power...
This tutorial will show you how to add or remove showing frequent folders (locations) in Quick access in File Explorer Home for your account in Windows 11.
Starting with Windows 11 build 22593, Quick access in File Explorer (Win+E) is now called Home. The name Quick access has been repurposed for the pinned/frequent Folders section, and Pinned files is now called Favorites to align with Office and OneDrive. Recent and pinned files (Favorites) displayed in Home are now searchable using the search box in File Explorer even if they are not local files, so you can find Office files recently shared with you.
Home in the navigation pane is the default homepage of File Explorer (Win+E) that allows you to quickly access and view your...
When making your first Macrium Reflect image of your PC the final test that the image is full and complete would be to boot from the Reflect rescue media and perform a full restore. This is not something you'd want to risk trying just as a test, so many do not do a restore until circumstances mean that they have to do it for real. That is perhaps not the best time to learn how to restore, and it's certainly a very bad time to find out that your image is missing an important partition.
This article offers a safe way to practice a full bare metal restore to a new machine, without risking destroying your PC if it goes badly wrong. Rather than restoring to your (perhaps only) PC the restore will be performed in a Virtual Machine (VM)...
The method in this tutorial no longer works starting with Windows 11 build 22000.65.
The Start menu contains shortcuts of all your apps, settings, and files.
Windows 11 comes with a new Start menu without live tiles.
If you do not like the new Start menu in Windows 11, you can restore the classic Start menu similar to the Windows 10 Start menu.
This tutorial will show you how to restore the classic Start menu for your account in Windows 11.
EXAMPLE: Default and classic Start menu in Windows 11
Here's How:
The downloadable .bat files below will modify the DWORD value in the registry key below.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
Start_ShowClassicMode DWORD
0 or <delete> = Default...
This tutorial will show you how to check battery usage per app for your account in Windows 11.
You can check battery usage per app to see which apps might be using more battery in the background.
Some apps let you manage background activity. If you find that an app is using a lot of battery when running in the background, you can change the Let this app run in the background setting for apps that allow it.
Here's How:
1 Open Settings (Win+I).
2 Click/tap on System on the left side, and click/tap on Power & battery on the right side. (see screenshot below)
Open Power & battery settings
3 Click/tap on Battery usage on the right side to expand it open. (see screenshot below step 4)
4 Under Battery levels, select Last 24 hours...
This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable Desktop Stickers for all users in Windows 11.
Desktop Stickers is a feature in Windows 11 that allows you to choose and edit stickers for your wallpaper when using a picture and choose Fill for your desktop background image.
Using the new sticker editor you can pick, place, and resize stickers as you like. It can be accessed through Settings or by right-clicking your desktop.
When you change your desktop background picture, your stickers will still remain.
Reference:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/education/windows/edu-stickers
The Desktop Stickers feature is currently not officially released to Windows 11 yet, but if you would like to give Desktop Stickers a play with now...
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off show Narrator Home when Narrator starts for your account in Windows 11.
Narrator is a screen reader included with Windows 11 that describes what's on your screen. It lets you use your PC without a mouse to complete common tasks if you’re blind or have low vision. It reads and interacts with things on the screen, like text and buttons. Use Narrator to read and write email, browse the internet, and work with documents.
Every time you turn on Narrator you’ll go to Narrator Home, which gives you one place where you can open everything you need, whether you want to change your Narrator settings or learn basics with QuickStart. The links at Narrator Home include QuickStart, Narrator guide...
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