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Resize Copilot Side Pane on Desktop in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to resize the width of the Copilot side pane on the right side of your desktop for your account in Windows 11. The Copilot setting in this tutorial is no longer available. A preview of Copilot in Windows will start rolling out with the next wave of continuous innovation in Windows 11 version 22H2 KB5030310 Build 22621.2361 on September 26, 2023. Copilot in Windows adds AI to your Windows 11 experience to help you find answers, complete tasks, and be more productive. With Copilot, people can quickly make sense of long articles on the web, craft and polish content, or create stunning images--all directly within the Windows 11 experience. Windows Copilot will use the same Microsoft account (MSA) or...
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Enable or Disable Hide Terminal in Notification Area when Minimized in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable hide Terminal in the taskbar notification area when minimized 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. When you turn on the Hide Terminal in the notification area when it is minimized Windows Terminal setting, the Terminal taskbar icon for the opened window will get hidden to the...
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Enable or Disable Automatically Hide Windows Terminal window in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off hide (minimize) the terminal window when you switch to another window 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. When you turn on the Automatically hide window Windows Terminal setting, the terminal window will automatically be minimized to taskbar as soon as you switch to another window...
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Move or Restore Default Location of Desktop Folder in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to move or restore the default location of the Desktop folder for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11. The Desktop folder (shell:Desktop) is a component of the user profile that is used as a unified location for storing personal data. By default, the Desktop folder is a shell folder in the user's profile (%UserProfile%) that is used as a default storage location items on your desktop. The desktop (Win+D) is your home screen and working space in Windows that contains the taskbar and any icons (ex: shortcuts, files, folders, etc...) you add to and arrange on the desktop. If you like, you can move the Desktop folder and its content to a location you want it at instead. If the current Desktop...
General
Create New Folder in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you different ways to create a new folder in Windows 11. A folder is a location where you can store your files. You can create any number of folders and have folders inside other folders (subfolders). Starting with Windows 11 build 26100.3037 and build 22631.4830, Microsoft has added a New Folder option in the context menu when right-clicking locations in the navigation pane. Reference: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/create-a-new-folder-cbbfb6f5-59dd-4e5d-95f6-a12577952e17 Option One: Create New Folder using Keyboard Shortcut Option Two: Create New Folder from File Explorer Command Bar Option Three: Create New Folder from New Context Menu Option Four: Create New Folder in "Save As" Dialog...
General
Turn On or Off Autocorrect Misspelled Words in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off autocorrect misspelled words for your account in Windows 11. Windows 11 includes a spell checking feature for when you type words anywhere in Windows 11. When autocorrect misspelled words is turned on, it will autocorrect your typed words on the fly if matched with the correct spelling of the word in your personal dictionary. Option One: Turn On or Off Autocorrect Misspelled Words in Settings Option Two: Turn On or Off Autocorrect Misspelled Words using REG file Turn On or Off Autocorrect Misspelled Words in Settings 1 Open Settings (Win+I). 2 Click/tap on Time & language on the left side, and click/tap on Typing on the right side. (see screenshot below) Open Typing settings...
Time and Language
Move Home to Top or Bottom of Navigation Pane in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to move Home to show at the top or bottom of the navigation pane in File Explorer for your account in Windows 11. Starting with Windows 11 build 22593, Quick access 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 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. Quick access = Displays up to 11 folders that you pinned or frequently opened on the system. Favorites = Pinned files. Recent (Recent files) = Displays up to 25 files that you most...
Personalization
Turn On or Off Always Run as Administrator for PowerToys in Windows 10 and Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off always run PowerToys as an administrator for your account 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. If you are running any application as an administrator (also referred to as elevated permissions), PowerToys may not work correctly when the elevated applications are in focus or trying to interact with a PowerToys feature like FancyZones. This can be addressed by also running PowerToys as an administrator. PowerToys only needs elevated administrator permission when interacting with other applications that are running in administrator mode. If those applications are in...
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Enable or Disable OneDrive notifications to sync files from other accounts in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off "Notify me to load files from my other accounts to this PC" with OneDrive for your account in Windows 11 and Windows 10. You can use OneDrive to sync files between your computer and the cloud, so you can get to your files from anywhere - your computer, your mobile device, and even through the OneDrive website at OneDrive.com. If you add, change, or delete a file or folder in your OneDrive folder, the file or folder is added, changed, or deleted on the OneDrive website and vice versa. You can work with your synced files directly in File Explorer and access your files even when you’re offline. Whenever you’re online, any changes that you or others make will sync automatically. If you...
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Delete Environment Variables in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to delete user and system environment variables in Windows 10 and Windows 11. Environment variables are a set of dynamic named values that can affect the way running processes will behave on a computer. The variables can be used both in scripts and on the command line. Environment variables makes it easy when certain standard directories and parameters need to be referenced but where the actual locations or names can vary from computer to computer. The variable (ex: "%UserProfile%" for command and "$Env:UserProfile" for PowerShell) is used as a type of shortcut of the value (ex: "C:\Users\<username>"). There are two types of environment variables: user environment variables (set only for current user)...
System
Using Windows 11 Search
Introduction Windows Search is one of the most underused and underappreciated features of Windows simply because people just do not know how to use it productively, or worse still, just don’t know that it’s there. The intention of this tutorial is to show you just how advanced Windows Search is, and how easy it is to fully utilize this notable feature of Windows 11 to its full potential by performing basic searches, and how to make full use of the Advanced Query Syntax implemented by Windows Search. Before you can fully benefit from Windows Search, you first need to follow a few simple steps to configure it to your needs. Opening Indexing Options Click the "Start" Button Begin typing "index" (without quotes) Click "Indexing Options"...
General
Turn On or Off AutoSwitch for Wi-Fi Network in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off autoSwitch for Wi-Fi networks set to connect automatically when in range on your Windows 11 or Windows 10 PC. When you connect to a Wi-Fi network for the first time, Windows will automatically add a profile for the Wi-Fi network. The saved profile contains the SSID (network name), security key (password), and connection and security properties used to connect to this specific Wi-Fi network. If you turn on connect automatically to a Wi-Fi network, Windows will automatically connect to this Wi-Fi network when in range based on priority order. The autoSwitch parameter controls the roaming behavior of an auto-connected Wi-Fi network when a more preferred connect automatically Wi-Fi...
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