This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off whether live Widget content on the taskbar shows more than weather for your account in Windows 11.
Widgets are small cards that display dynamic content from your favorite apps and services on your Windows desktop. They appear on the widgets board, where you can discover, pin, unpin, arrange, resize, and customize widgets to reflect your interests. Your widgets board is optimized to show relevant widgets and personalized content based on your usage.
Widgets help you stay on top of what’s important to you by bringing together personalized content from your favorite apps and services so you can have the latest info at a glance throughout your day. Say goodbye to constantly switching...
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Disable Automatic Windows Updates in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to disable Windows Update from automatically downloading and installing updates in Windows 10 and Windows 11.- Brink
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This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable startup apps for your account or all users in Windows 11.
Startup apps are the apps that start automatically when you sign in to Windows 11.
References:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/change-which-apps-run-automatically-at-startup-in-windows-9115d841-735e-488d-e749-9ba301d441e6
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/configure-startup-applications-in-windows-115a420a-0bff-4a6f-90e0-1934c844e473
You must be signed in as an administrator to enable or disable startup apps for all users, but not for only your account (current user).
Option One: Enable or Disable Startup Apps in Task Manager
Option Two: Enable or Disable Startup Apps in Settings
Option Three: Enable...
This tutorial will show you how to allow or block devices to project to your PC for only your account in Windows 11.
You can use the Projecting to this PC feature to have apps and content from another device show on your PC screen.
Projecting to this PC uses the Wireless Display app to wirelessly project (mirror) a phone, PC, or Android device to the screen on your PC, and use its keyboard, mouse, and other devices too.
When you project to your PC from a device, you can select to Always allow, Allow once, Block once, or Always block the device to connect when asked to project to this PC.
If you select Always allow, the device gets added under Allowed Devices in the "Device Access List" for the Wireless Display app. If you set Ask to...
This tutorial will show you how to manually check for updates for the Microsoft PowerToys app in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
Microsoft PowerToys is a set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows experience for greater productivity.
References:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/install
https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/releases
Here's How:
1 Open the PowerToys app.
2 Open PowerToys Settings. (see screenshot below)
3 In PowerToys Settings, click/tap on General in the left pane, and click/tap on Check for updates. (see screenshot below)
4 If PowerToys is up to date, you are done. (see screenshot below)
5 If An update is...
This tutorial will show you how to add or remove the Compatibility tab from app properties for all users in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
You can right click on a program shortcut or executable file and click/tap on Properties to see a Compatibility tab.
The Compatibility tab displays a list of settings that can be selected and applied to the app to resolve the most common issues affecting legacy applications.
You can use compatibility mode to run the program using settings from an earlier version of Windows. You can try this setting if you know the program is designed for (or worked with) a specific version of Windows.
You must be signed in as an administrator to add or remove the Compatibility tab from app properties.
Option One...
This tutorial will show you how to see what the startup impact is for your startup apps on your Windows 11 PC.
Startup apps are the apps that start automatically when you sign in to Windows 11.
You can have any app, shortcut, folder, drive, file, script, etc.. items automatically open or run at startup.
Windows 11 includes functionality to ensure you are always in control of the apps that run on your systems. Settings and Task Manager shows a list of startup apps, along with controls that allow users to disable startup apps. To help users determine what to disable, Settings and Task Manager displays a measure of each startup app’s impact. Impact is assessed based on an app’s CPU and disk usage at startup.
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This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable the delay of running startup apps at Windows startup for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
Startup apps are the apps that start automatically when you sign in to Windows 11.
You can have any app, shortcut, folder, drive, file, script, etc.. items automatically open or run at startup.
By default, Windows will run the items in your Startup folder (shell:startup) after about a 10 second delay at Windows startup when you sign in to your account. This was done to help improve the performance of Windows startup. If you have a fast computer, then you may wish to disable this startup delay to have your startup items run as soon as you sign-in instead of delayed.
Here's How:
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This tutorial will show you how to download and install the Media Feature Pack for N editions of Windows 11.
N editions of Windows include the same functionality as other editions of Windows, except for media-related technologies, Windows Media Player, and certain preinstalled media apps (Groove, Movies & TV, Voice Recorder, and Skype). The Media Feature Pack provides a way for you to restore these excluded technologies.
These technologies include, but are not limited to, the following features:
Windows Media Player application: Enables Windows Media Player features, such as the ability to play media files and audio CDs, manage media in a library, create a playlist, provide metadata (including album art) for media, create an audio...
This tutorial will show you how to manually check for app and game updates to download and install in the Microsoft Store for your account in Windows 11.
Microsoft redesigned the Microsoft Store from the ground up in Windows 11, making space for more content, keeping the user experience simple and responsive. It will help you discover and install the best apps, games, movies and even special offers – like unique movie discounts for Xbox Game Pass members. All the content in the Microsoft Store is tested for security, family safety and device compatibility.
Starting with Windows 11 Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels, Microsoft is moving the list of updates and downloads in the Microsoft Store app from the top section of the...
This tutorial will show you how to expand and collapse the widgets board view for your account in Windows 11.
Widgets are small cards that display dynamic content from your favorite apps and services on your Windows desktop. They appear on the widgets board, where you can discover, pin, unpin, arrange, resize, and customize widgets to reflect your interests. Your widgets board is optimized to show relevant widgets and personalized content based on your usage.
Open the widgets board from the left corner of your taskbar where you see the live weather icon. Widgets help you stay on top of what’s important to you by bringing together personalized content from your favorite apps and services so you can have the latest info at a glance...
This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable Apps for Websites for your account or all users in Windows 11.
Apps for Websites is a feature that uses web-to-app linking to associates an app with a website so that when someone opens a link to a website, the app is launched instead of opening the browser. If the app is not installed, the website opens in the browser as usual.
Users can turn off apps for websites, preventing websites that are registered with their associated app from directly launching the app instead of opening in the browser.
You can also disable web-to-app linking to disable Apps for Websites for all users on the computer.
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This tutorial will show you how to move an installed app from the Microsoft Store to another drive for your account in Windows 11.
In Windows 11, you can move an installed app from the Microsoft Store to another drive. This can be handy if you do not have much free space on the Windows drive, or just prefer to move apps to a different drive location.
The default location for installed apps from the Microsoft Store is on the Windows "Local Disk (C)" drive in the %ProgramFiles%\WindowsApps (apps) and %LocalAppData%\Packages (user app data) folders.
You can select to move an app to any internal or external NTFS drive, including SD cards and USB drives.
If you disconnect the drive you selected to move apps to, then any app moved to that...
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