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Reserved Storage usually will reserve around 7GB of storage for updates, temporary files, system cache, and apps. When a new update is available, Windows 10 will delete the files on the reserved storage automatically allowing updates to install successfully. The new feature will come enabled by default on devices that come pre-installed with the May 2019 Update, or after performing a clean installation of the operating system, and if this feature isn’t for you because your device has limited space or you don’t like the feature, there’s a workaround to disable it modifying the Registry....

If you want to make the Windows 11 interface more responsive or are sensitive to these visuals, you can disable the animation effects through the Settings app. This guide will teach you the easy steps to manage the animation effects settings on Windows 11. Disable animation effects on Windows 11 Enable animation effects on Windows 11 Disable animation effects on Windows 11 To disable animation effects on Windows 11, use these steps: Once you complete the steps, opening, minimizing, maximizing, closing, and other actions will no longer feature animation effects, making the system feel like it’s more responsive....

While these suggestions may be useful for many users, many people consider this feature as “ads” and intrusive, but fortunately, the Settings app includes an option to prevent the Start menu from showing these suggestions. In this guide, you’ll learn the easy steps to stop app suggestions in the Start menu on Windows 10. How to remove ads from the Start menu If you’re not interested on getting apps recommendations in the Start menu, you can quickly disable this type of ads using these steps: Once you’ve completed the steps, the Start menu will no longer show you “ads” of other apps you can get from the Microsoft Store....

In addition, the feature helps to prevent from downloading harmful files to your computer. So, basically it behaves like an antivirus, however it’s a prevention tool, because if your computer was to get infected, Chrome can’t help you to remove the infection (unless you use the browser to find a solution, in which case, Chrome help you to remove the infection). While this is a great feature to have in Google’s web browser to help users stay safe online, the database Google maintains may not be one hundred percent accurate....

For example, when using VMware and one of the virtual machines goes into a suspend state, the VMware icon in the taskbar starts flashing like crazy, and it’s not until I go to the application that the icon will stop flashing. Now I decided I don’t need to be notified by flashing icons when something requires my attention on the taskbar, but Windows doesn’t have the option to disable the feature....

The only problem going through the upgrade path is that many times you may come across errors and other issues, as a result of compatibility issues with software and hardware, configuration problems, or a bug with the OS. Start fresh with Windows 10 However, if you do a clean installation of Windows 10 with the Fall Creators Update, you can avoid many of the problems using the in-place upgrade process, because a clean installation wipes out the drive deleting everything, and you then start again with a fresh copy of Windows 10....

Typically, when a new version of Windows 10 launches, Microsoft also updates the Media Creation Tool and Update Assistant to upgrade devices to the latest release. This means that if you install the October 2018 Update, you won’t be able to use these tools to downgrade if you’re having issues or you just don’t like the update. (Of course, you can use the recovery feature to rollback, but the option is only available for ten days, and many times it doesn’t work....

Reserved Storage usually will reserve around 7GB of storage for updates, temporary files, system cache, and apps. When a new update is available, Windows 10 will delete the files on the reserved storage automatically allowing updates to install successfully. The new feature will come enabled by default on devices that come pre-installed with the April 2019 Update, or after performing a clean installation of the OS, but there’s a workaround to enable Reserved Storage on existing installations....

If you want the legacy behavior back, Windows 10 includes a registry key to enable automatic backups again for the entire Registry every time your computer restarts successfully. In this guide, you will learn the steps to allow Windows 10 to create backups of the Registry every time your computer starts. Enable automatic backup for Registry Create manual backup of Registry Enable automatic backup for Registry To enable automatic backups of the Registry, use these steps: Once you complete the steps, Windows 10 will create a backup of the entire Registry inside the RegBack folder, and it’ll make a “RegIdleBackup” task in the Task Scheduler to manage future backups....

And we’re now starting to see 4K monitors, which feature even higher resolution than current retina displays, so having applications with high DPI support is becoming a necessity more than a luxury. For example, my Dell XPS 15 and Surface Pro 3 both have HiDPI displays and it is impossible to keep using Chrome, everything just look fuzzy and pixelated, awful. However the good news is that Chrome secretly does support high resolution displays, it’s simply not enable to the masses just yet, perhaps because it needs more development, but with a tiny workaround you can enable Chrome high DPI mode in your PC....

The problem is that the signal includes the unique media access control (MAC) address (also referred as the physical hardware address) of your computer, and sending out the hardware address can allow some places, such as stores, public areas, and shopping malls to track your location in the specific area. If you want to make it more difficult for people to track your movements as the device scans and connects to a Wi-Fi network, Windows 10 includes an option to send random hardware addresses....

According to the company, bugs in JavaScript are among the most common ways that attackers exploit. The technology is called JIT (Just-in-Time), and it’s meant to render sites faster, but it can also lead to security exploits. The Super Duper Secure Mode in Microsoft Edge improves browsing security by turning off the JIT (Just-in-Time) JavaScript engine and enabling additional security mitigations. Of course, disabling the technology will impact performance, but in the real world, it’s unlike that most people will see a significant difference....

I have tried a number of troubleshooting steps, such as disconnecting and reconnecting manually, resetting the wireless network adapter, and reinstalling the adapter driver. I’ve even tried to get updated driver, but unfortunately the USB dongle wireless adapter I was using doesn’t have a Windows 10 compatible driver at all (but everything worked perfectly before). No matter the things I tried, I would always get the infamous yellow triangle exclamation mark, and then no internet access at all....

In the past, you needed to use the Disk Management tool, Command Prompt, or PowerShell to format hard drive, but since build 20197, Windows 10 has a new experience built into the Storage settings to manage drives and partitions more easily. In this guide, you’ll learn the steps to format a hard drive (internal or external) using the “Manage Disks and Volumes” settings available on Windows 10. Format hard drive on Windows 10 Format hard drive without partition on Windows 10...

The Microsoft Store app is called QuickLook, and just like the macOS feature, it offers a way to open a quick preview of an image in File Explorer. In this guide, you’ll learn the easy steps to add quick image preview on Windows 10. How to get started with QuickLook on Windows 10 You can now have the same macOS Quick Look feature on Windows 10 using the QuickLook app....

While you can simply use the Windows key + L keyboard shortcut to quickly lock your computer, or use the Lock option from the user account menu on Start, Windows 10 doesn’t include an option in the Settings app to lock your device automatically when you’re not around. However, if you need a way to lock your Windows 10 PC automatically after a period of inactivity, you can still use an option that has been around for years....

Now the software giant has made available a OneNote importer that has been crafted to migrate Evernote notes into the service. The tool is currently available on Windows, but the company will be releasing a version for Mac in the near future to allow users to migrate their notes to OneNote. In this guide you’ll learn the easy steps to migrate notes from Evernote to OneNote using the importer....

Nowadays storage is cheap and in many cases isn’t a problem for many computers. However, there are devices, such as affordable laptops and tablets that typically come with limited storage capacity. Simply installing a few apps and a couple of games can quickly fill up the entire hard drive. On Windows 10, Microsoft has improved the operating system to handle apps and games storage. Now it’s possible to easily move those apps installed on your computer to another SD Card, microSD, USB flash drive, or external hard drive....

In this guide, you’ll learn the steps to recover files from a backup created with Azure services on Windows 10. (You can also use the same instructions to restore files on Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016, 2012, and even 2008.) How to restore files to the same computer using Azure backup To restore one or multiple files from a backup created using Azure on Windows 10, use these steps: As you can see, unlike traditional backup solutions, you need to File Explorer to browse and recover your data as they were stored on a removal drive....

In this guide, you’ll learn the easy steps to change Bing and select Google as your default search engine using Microsoft Launcher on Android. How to set Google as default search on Microsoft Launcher In order to change the default search engine to Google using the Microsoft Launcher, do the following: In the Search page, you can also tap the Search result filters option to decide exactly what results should Microsoft Launcher surface alongside web results....