This tutorial will show you how to use the Summary View in Task Manager as a desktop performance widget for your account in Windows 11.
Task Manager can be used to view and manage your processes, performance statistics, app history, startup apps, users, process details, and services in Windows 11.
When you have the Performance page open in Task Manager, you can enable the Summary View to show your available CPU, Memory, Disk, Ethernet, Bluetooth, WiFi, and GPU performance and usage as a desktop widget that can be set to always be on top.
You can move the Summary View desktop widget anywhere you want to monitor it at on your desktop.
You can drag the borders of the Summary View desktop widget to resize it how you want.
EXAMPLE...
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Tutorials
Windows 11 tutorials, tricks, tips, and guides.
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off set time zone automatically for all users in Windows 11.
A time zone is a geographical region in which the same time is used. Typically, but not always, adjacent time zones are one hour apart. The time in any of the world's time zones can be expressed as an offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
You can choose to let Windows 11 set your time zone automatically based on your region, or you can set the time zone manually.
Starting with Windows 11 build 23486, if location settings are disabled, a warning is now shown to the user, urging them to enable location settings to ensure accurate time zone adjustments. This warning provides helpful information to the user, helping them...
This tutorial will show you how to use the Graph Summary View in Task Manager as a desktop performance widget for your account in Windows 11.
Task Manager can be used to view and manage your processes, performance statistics, app history, startup apps, users, process details, and services in Windows 11.
When you have the Performance page open in Task Manager, you can enable the Graph Summary View to show your CPU, Memory, Disk, Ethernet, Bluetooth, WiFi, or GPU performance and usage on a graph as a desktop widget that can be set to always be on top.
You can move the Graph Summary View desktop widget anywhere you want to monitor it at on your desktop.
You can drag the borders of the Graph Summary View desktop widget to resize it how...
This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable "Group by Type" view on the Processes page in Task Manager for your account in Windows 11.
Task Manager can be used to view and manage your processes, performance statistics, app history, startup apps, users, process details, and services in Windows 11.
By default, the Processes page in Task Manager will group by type processes under the Apps, Background processes, and Windows processes group names. Task Manager displays the count of processes next to each group name, providing you with a quick view of active processes per type.
If you don't want to see processes grouped by type, you can disable "Group by Type" to see all processes in one list instead.
Here's How:
1 Open Task...
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off "Display file icon on thumbnails" for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
Sometimes when you view the thumbnails of files in File Explorer, an icon of the file type for its default app may show in the lower right corner of the thumbnail.
You can turn off "Display file icon on thumbnails" to no longer see the icon overlay on the lower right corner of the thumbnail.
Option One: Turn On or Off "Display file icon on thumbnails" in Folder Options
Option Two: Turn On or Off "Display file icon on thumbnails" using REG file
EXAMPLE: Display file icon on thumbnails
Turn On or Off "Display file icon on thumbnails" in Folder Options
1 Open Folder Options.
2 Click/tap on the...
This tutorial will show you how to remove "AI Overview" from your Google Search results in any browser on Windows 10 and Windows 11.
With AI Overviews in Google Search, it’s easier than ever for people to find the information they need and discover relevant sites across the web, which opens up more opportunities to connect with publishers, businesses and creators.
AI Overviews are a generative AI-powered feature that provide quick summaries and key information. Some users find them distracting, while others prefer to see search results in the traditional format.
AI Overviews are a core feature of Google Search and cannot be turned off.
However, you can use workarounds to remove seeing AI Overviews (when available) in your Google...
This tutorial will help show you how to find the wake source for what woke up your Windows 11 computer from a sleep or hibernate state.
When you put your computer to sleep or hibernate, many sources (ex: network, device or wake timers) can wake the computer.
References:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/powercfg-command-line-options#option_lastwake
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/transitioning-between-idle-and-active-states
Option One: Find Last Wake Source using Command
Option Two: Find Wake Sources in Event Viewer
Find Last Wake Source...
This tutorial will show you how to Initialize a new "unknown" RAW disk in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
If you add a new disk to your PC, and it doesn't show up in File Explorer, you might need to initialize the disk before you can use it.
You can only initialize a drive that's not yet formatted. When you initialize a disk, everything on the disk is erased. This action prepares the disk for use by Windows. After you initialize your disk, you can format it, and then store files on it.
Windows uses the partition style to understand how to access the data on the disk.
When you initialize a disk, you can choose to use a MBR (Master Boot Record) or GPT (GUID Partition Table) Partition Style for the disk.
Most PCs use the GUID Partition...
This tutorial will show you how to clean (wipe) a disk drive to remove all partition (volume) formatting information on it to un-initialize and erase all data on the disk in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
When you clean a disk, the disk will show as "Unknown" and "Not Initialized" with "Unallocated" space afterwards. This will be a completely wiped out RAW disk ready to be initialized and create a new partition (volume) on the disk. Clean is a good option to quickly wipe and start fresh on a disk.
You can clean all a disk instead of clean to also secure erase the disk. Clean all specifies that each and every sector on the disk is set to zero, which completely deletes all data contained on the disk. It can take about an hour per 320 GB to...
This tutorial will show you different ways to create a new partition (volume) using the "unallocated" space on a disk in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
When a connected internal or external hard disk has unallocated space on it, you will need to create a New Simple Volume from the unallocated space to create a RAW partition (volume) and then format as a drive with an assigned drive letter.
When you format a drive, it erases all existing data on the drive and applies a file system to allow the operating system to read and write data on the drive.
Windows 10/11 supports the FAT, FAT32, exFAT, NTFS, and ReFS file systems for drive volumes or partitions on a disk.
When you format a drive, you will enter a volume label and select the...
This tutorial will show you how to add (show) or remove (hide) the drives showing twice in the navigation pane of File Explorer for all users in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
Removable drives are shown as separate groups in the navigation pane of File Explorer by default in addition to being shown under the This PC group in the navigation pane.
OS drives and fixed drives (ex: internal drives) will only be shown under This PC, and not separately in the navigation pane.
You must be signed in as an administrator to add or remove duplicate removable drives in the navigation pane of File Explorer.
This will not affect drives listed under the This PC group in the navigation pane.
EXAMPLE: Duplicate removable drives in navigation pane of...
This tutorial will show you how to add "AutoPlay" to the Desktop context menu for all users in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
The AutoPlay context menu allows users to directly open AutoPlay settings in either Settings or Control Panel. This context menu can be handy if you change your AutoPlay settings often.
AutoPlay lets you choose an action for different kinds of media when you plug in a device or insert media. You can set AutoPlay to open different kinds of content, such as photos, music, and video on different kinds of media, such as drives, CDs, DVDs, cameras, and phones. For example, you can use AutoPlay to select an app that will automatically open photos on a removable drive when you plug it into your PC. With AutoPlay, you...
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