This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off showing the key background on the touch keyboard for your account 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.
The key background on the touch keyboard outlines and highlights the individual keys to make them standout more on the touch keyboard.
Option One: Turn On or Off Key Background for Touch Keyboard in Settings
Option Two: Turn On or Off Key Background for Touch Keyboard using REG file
EXAMPLE: Key background on and off for touch keyboard
Turn On or Off Key Background for Touch Keyboard in Settings
1 Open Settings (Win+I).
2 Click/tap on...
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Uninstall or Reinstall Copilot app
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Add or Remove "Learn about this picture" Desktop icon
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Use SFC to Repair System Files in Windows 11
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Download Official Windows 11 ISO file from Microsoft
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Tutorials
Windows 11 tutorials, tricks, tips, and guides.
This tutorial will show you how to change the size of the touch keyboard for your account 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.
You can change the size of the touch keyboard to be smaller or larger for your needs.
Option One: Change Touch Keyboard Size in Settings
Option Two: Change Touch Keyboard Size in Registry Editor
EXAMPLE: Touch keyboard
Change Touch Keyboard Size in Settings
1 Open Settings (Win+I).
2 Click/tap on Personalization on the left side, and click/tap on Touch keyboard or Text input on the right side. (see screenshots below)
Open Text input settings
3 Adjust the...
This tutorial will show you how to show or hide the touch keyboard icon on the taskbar system tray for your account 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.
The touch keyboard icon on the system tray on the taskbar corner makes it easy to open the touch keyboard on demand.
If you have a tablet device, the touch keyboard will automatically open when you need it. Just tap where you’d like to enter text and the touch keyboard will pop up, or press the touch keyboard icon on the taskbar.
If you have a non-touch PC (ex: desktop), you could still use the touch keyboard if you like, but you will have to manually...
Personalization Change Touch Keyboard, Voice Typing, Emoji Panel and more Text Input Theme in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to change the theme for clipboard (Win+V), touch keyboard, voice typing, emoji and more for your account in Windows 11.
Starting with Windows 11 build 22504, to further personalize your Windows text input experience, Microsoft has expanded the 13 themes for the touch keyboard to now apply to other input experiences, including IMEs, the emoji panel, and voice typing. Also available for all themed experiences is the theme engine that allows you to create a fully customized theme including background images.
You can choose to use a default or custom theme for text input. A custom theme allows you to choose a custom background color, background picture, accent color, text color, and touch keyboard key...
This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable always on top mode for Task Manager for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
Task Manager can be used to view and manage your processes, performance statistics, app history, users, processes details, and services in Windows 11.
If you enable always on top mode in Task Manager, the Task Manager window will launch and stay on top of all other windows on the desktop.
Option One: Enable or Disable Always On Top for Task Manager using Keyboard Shortcut
Option Two: Enable or Disable Always On Top for Task Manager in Task Manager
Option Three: Enable or Disable Always On Top for Task Manager from Task Manager Notification Icon
Enable or Disable Always On Top for Task Manager...
This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable always on top mode for the Windows Terminal app for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
Windows Terminal is a modern host application for the command-line shells you already love, like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and bash (via Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)). Its main features include multiple tabs, panes, Unicode and UTF-8 character support, a GPU accelerated text rendering engine, and the ability to create your own themes and customize text, colors, backgrounds, and shortcuts.
If you enable always on top mode in Windows Terminal, Windows Terminal windows will launch and stay on top of all other windows on the desktop.
Reference...
This tutorial will show you how to add or remove the Turn on BitLocker context menu for drives for all users in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
BitLocker Drive Encryption is a data protection feature that integrates with the operating system and addresses the threats of data theft or exposure from lost, stolen, or inappropriately decommissioned drives and computers.
You can turn on BitLocker to encrypt the operating system drive (Windows drive), fixed data drives (internal hard drives), and removable data drives (external hard drive or USB flash drive).
You must be signed in as an administrator to turn add, remove, and use the Turn on BitLocker context menu.
BitLocker Drive Encryption is only available in the Windows 11 Pro, Enterprise...
This tutorial will show you how to perform a clean boot to start Windows 10 or Windows 11 using a minimal set of drivers and startup programs for troubleshooting application conflicts.
Troubleshooting Windows can be a complex process due to the many different drivers, settings, and programs interacting simultaneously. This varied environment may lead to software conflicts that manifest in a number of ways. This varied environment may lead to software conflicts that manifest in a number of ways, often times as Windows struggling to start up properly or updates failing to install.
A clean boot starts Windows with a minimal set of drivers and startup programs, so that you can determine whether a background program is interfering with...
This tutorial will show you how to add Suspend BitLocker protection to the context menu of all unlocked drives encrypted by BitLocker for all users in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
BitLocker Drive Encryption is a data protection feature that integrates with the operating system and addresses the threats of data theft or exposure from lost, stolen, or inappropriately decommissioned drives and computers.
You can turn on BitLocker to encrypt the operating system drive (Windows drive), fixed data drives (internal hard drives), and removable data drives (external hard drive or USB flash drive).
You can temporarily suspend BitLocker protection (pause) whenever you like for an unlocked drive encrypted by BitLocker—for example, if you need to...
This tutorial will show you how to add or remove an Unblock file context menu to files and folders for all users in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
When you download files from the Internet, Windows 11 shows you a security warning every time you try to open it by default. Some file types are blocked from opening.
The Attachment Manager is included in Windows to help protect your PC from unsafe attachments that you might receive with an e-mail message and from unsafe files that you might save from the Internet. If the Attachment Manager identifies an attachment that might be unsafe, the Attachment Manager prevents (blocks) you from opening the file, or it warns you before you open the file.
It uses the IAttachmentExecute application...
This tutorial will show you different ways on how to unblock files downloaded from the Internet depending on how they were blocked in Windows 11.
When you download files from the Internet, Windows 11 shows you a security warning every time you try to open it by default. Some file types are blocked from opening.
The Attachment Manager is included in Windows to help protect your PC from unsafe attachments that you might receive with an e-mail message and from unsafe files that you might save from the Internet. If the Attachment Manager identifies an attachment that might be unsafe, the Attachment Manager prevents (blocks) you from opening the file, or it warns you before you open the file.
It uses the IAttachmentExecute application...
This tutorial will show you how to add BitLocker Status to the context menu of all drives in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
BitLocker Drive Encryption is a data protection feature that integrates with the operating system and addresses the threats of data theft or exposure from lost, stolen, or inappropriately decommissioned drives and computers.
You can turn on BitLocker to encrypt the operating system drive (Windows drive), fixed data drives (internal hard drives), and removable data drives (external hard drive or USB flash drive).
The BitLocker Status context menu uses the manage-bde status command to provide information about a drive on the computer; whether or not it is BitLocker-protected, including:
Size
BitLocker version...
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