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Change Where New Apps will Save to in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to change where new apps from the Microsoft Store will save to for your account in Windows 11. In Windows 11, you can select where new apps from the Microsoft Store will install and save data to by default instead of on the default Windows "Local Disk (C)" drive location. This can be handy if you do not have much free space on the Windows drive, or just prefer to save new apps to a different location. You can select to install new apps to any internal or external NTFS drive, including SD cards and USB drives. Windows 11 will only install new apps to the currently selected location. Existing apps will not get moved to the new location. If you disconnect the drive you selected to install new apps to...
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Rename Tab Title in Windows Terminal in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to rename a tab title in Windows Terminal 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. By default, the tab title is set to the shell's title. If a tab is composed of multiple panes, the tab's title is set to that of the currently focused pane. You can rename a tab for the current terminal session, or set the...
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Resize Panes in Windows Terminal in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to resize panes in Windows Terminal 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. Panes give you the ability to run multiple command-line applications next to each other within the same tab. This minimizes the need to switch between tabs and lets you see multiple prompts at once. You can adjust the size of...
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Open and Close Panes in Windows Terminal in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to open and close panes in Windows Terminal 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. Panes give you the ability to run multiple command-line applications next to each other within the same tab. This minimizes the need to switch between tabs and lets you see multiple prompts at once. You can either create...
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Change Windows Terminal Launch Size in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to change Windows Terminal launch column (width) and row (height) size 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. You can change Windows Terminal launch size for the number of rows and columns displayed in the terminal window upon first load. Columns = This is the number of character columns displayed in...
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Change Windows Terminal Tab Width Mode in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to change Windows Terminal tab width mode 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. You can change the Tab width mode setting to set the width of the tabs in Windows Terminal to one of the following modes: Equal makes each tab the same width. Title length sizes each tab to the length of its title. Compact...
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Change Windows Terminal New Instance Behavior in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to change Windows Terminal new instance behavior 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. You can select a New instance behavior setting below to control how new terminal instances attach to existing terminal windows. Create a new window = Create a new window, always. This is how the terminal always...
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Change Windows Terminal Launch Mode in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to change Windows Terminal launch mode 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. Launch mode defines whether the terminal will launch as maximized, full screen, focus, or maximized focus. Setting this to focus is equivalent to launching the terminal in the default mode, but with focus mode enabled...
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Change Behavior when Windows Terminal Starts in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to change what should show when Windows Terminal opens 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. You can set Windows Terminal to either Open a tab with the default profile or Open windows from a previous session when Terminal starts. When set to Open a tab with the default profile, Windows Terminal will...
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Create New Sticky Notes in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to create a new note in 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. You can sign in to Sticky Notes to sync your notes to the cloud so that you can see the same notes on the web and across apps and your favorite devices. To see your sticky notes on your favorite devices on the web...
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Manually Sync Sticky Notes in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to manually sync 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. You can sign in to Sticky Notes to sync your notes to the cloud so that you can see the same notes on the web and across apps and your favorite devices. To see your sticky notes on your favorite devices on the web, you'll need...
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Enable or Disable Sticky Notes Delete Confirmation in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable Sticky Notes delete confirmation 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. Note deletion is permanent. It cannot be undone. You can minimize the chance of deleting notes by mistake by making sure you've turned on the note deletion warning. Reference...
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