Microsoft Windows 11 operating system articles
In this guide, I’ll show you how to resize images using the Windows built-in Photos app. The following steps were done in Windows 11 but work in a very similar way in Windows 10. There are several reasons why a user might want to resize […]
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Follow this guide to learn how to use the new split screen feature in Windows 11. Split screen isn’t new, with the “Snap” feature first introduced in Windows 7. However, Windows 11 takes split screen a step further with a selection of layouts in a
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Notepad is a simple text editor that has been included with every Windows version since 1983. However, additions of new features in Windows 10 and more recently in Windows 11 have finally started to bring Notepad into the modern era. New Notepad Features In Windows
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Microsoft introduces support for creating 7z and TAR archives directly from within File Explorer. In late 2023 Microsoft introduced support for 11 additional archive formats, they are: .tar, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar.zst, .tar.xz, .tgz, .tbz2, .tzst, .txz, .rar, and .7z. Which means that Windows 11 users
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Some time back Microsoft introduced a new option in Windows 11 which allows users to quickly kill unresponsive apps, but it is tucked away in Settings and disabled by default. We’ve all been there at some time or another; an app refuses to respond and
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When Microsoft removed the HomeGroup feature from Windows 10 (version 1803 and on) a lot of users complained, and rightly so – yet another useful feature gone by the wayside. By way of supposed compensation, Microsoft introduced another method for sharing files across local PCs
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Windows 11’s Start menu is arguably the worst Start menu ever produced by Microsoft. I don’t use the Start menu all that often myself and the last thing I want is for it to be cluttered with information I neither need nor want. The top
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Is Edge Better Than Chrome? Chrome and Google’s giant market share can lead you to believe Chrome is the best browser and there is a reason for that. Google frankly created the best search engine on the market, quickly becoming the most used and trusted
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For the past few weeks, I’ve been tasked with upgrading six computers at a customer’s office; a challenge that I was more than happy to undertake until a Lenovo laptop with Windows 11 Home Edition entered the loop. The scenario was five desktop PCs with
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Windows Recall is a new feature that will be introduced into and is exclusive to the next generation of AI-driven PCs known as Copilot+ PCs. What Is Recall? Recall is an AI feature that creates and saves searchable snapshots of the screen every 5 seconds.
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This follows an article we published earlier: 7 Useful Tips You May Have Forgotten About Here then are 5 more tips you might have forgotten about. Make Text Larger The following works with documents (including PDFs), email, webpages, and just about anything that displays text.
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Likely, you haven’t heard about Microsoft PC Manager yet, but it’s worth exploring because it collects a lot of Windows management capabilities in one place. Here is what Microsoft says about its availability: “Microsoft PC Manager, a utility app for Windows PCs, became available after
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This article is addressing Windows 10 users whose systems meet Windows 11’s stringent requirements. With the exception of Windows 7, I cannot remember any release of a new Windows version that wasn’t met with immediate and widespread condemnation. In the case of Windows 10, the
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Note: Using this feature requires a Microsoft account Most of you will be aware of the new AI component in Windows known as “Copilot” but did you know that Copilot comes equipped with a range of plugins? The majority of these plugins specifically target certain
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