This tutorial will show you how to change your country or region for your account in Windows 11.
The country or region home location in Windows, referred to as geographic location (GeoID), indicates the country or region you are in.
Windows 11, Microsoft Store, and apps might use your country or region to give local content.
Stuff you get in one region might be region restrictive and not work in another region. This can include Xbox Live Gold, apps, games, movies, and the balance in your Microsoft account.
If you change your location by moving to or visiting some other country, you might need to change your country or region home location in Windows.
Starting with Windows 11 build 26100.4484 (24H2), Microsoft added the country or...
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Tutorials
Windows 11 tutorials, tricks, tips, and guides.
This tutorial will show you how to add or remove a keyboard layout for input language for your account in Windows 11.
In Windows, you can change your keyboard layout to type in another language or input method you want to use..
The language of your keyboard layout controls the characters that appear on your screen when you type. By using the different layouts, you can type all the characters for the language, including diacritics such as the umlaut (ä) in German and the tilde (ñ) in Spanish.
When you add a language, the default keyboard layout for the language will be installed by default.
You can install additional keyboards for language-specific key layouts and input options. Adding an input language lets you set a...
This tutorial will show you how all or prevent specific users and groups to change the time zone in Windows 10 and 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).
All accounts in the Administrators and Users groups are able to change the time zone by default.
Changing the time zone is applied to all user accounts on the computer, so you may want to restrict which users and/or groups are able to change the time zone.
Reference...
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off text suggestions for your account in Windows 11.
You can turn on text suggestions in Windows to quickly complete challenging words and continue working efficiently. As you type, suggestions appear above your cursor, and you can easily select the one you want. Words are predicted based upon your spelling; as you type more letters, new and more accurate suggestions appear.
Reference:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enable-text-suggestions-in-windows-0bf313ca-c992-4173-aa5f-8341d3953498#WindowsVersion=Windows_11
Option One: Turn On or Off Text Suggestions in Settings
Option Two: Turn On or Off Text Suggestions using REG file
EXAMPLE: Text suggestions
To insert a...
This tutorial will show you how to change the lock screen to display time in a 12 or 24 hour clock format in Windows 11.
The lock screen (aka: welcome screen) is the screen you see at startup and when you lock the computer (Win+L). You will need to dismiss the lock screen to to see the sign-in screen and sign in to Windows.
There are two separate lock screens in Windows 11.
Current user lock screen = This is the lock screen that displays when the currently signed in user locks the computer.
Default lock screen = This is the lock screen that displays when no users are currently signed in.
The time on the lock screen displays the system time in a 12 hour clock format by default.
If you like, you can have the lock screen time display...
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off showing time (clock) in the Notification Center for your account in Windows 11.
The Notification Center (Win+N) is a taskbar flyout where you can quickly access notifications, the calendar, and start or end a focus session from.
Starting with Windows 11 build 2610.5074 (24H2), the larger clock with seconds is now back in the notification center, displayed above the date and calendar.
⚠️ If you don't have this feature available in the build above yet and would like to try it now, then you can enable it using the command below with ViVeTool.
vivetool /enable /id:42651849
Also enable 48433719 if the command above doesn't work...
This tutorial will show you how to setup and show up to two additional clocks for different time zones on the taskbar for your account in Windows 11.
Windows can display up to three clocks on the taskbar: one for the local time and two additional clocks for different time zones. After you set up additional clocks, you can view them by clicking on or hover the pointer over the taskbar clock.
Starting with Windows 11 build 26040 (Canary), when you hover over the date and time in the system tray, the tooltip will now always show a clock even when you only have a single clock added.
Each addition clock is saved to the registry keys below:
Clock 1 = HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\TimeDate\AdditionalClocks\1
Clock 2 =...
This tutorial will show you how to add or remove the language bar on the taskbar and sign-in screen for your account in Windows 11 without having to remove all extra languages and/or keyboard layouts.
When you have more than one language and/or keyboard layout installed, you will see the language bar (input indicator) on the taskbar system tray area and sign-in screen by default.
The language bar allows you to switch between your added languages and keyboard layouts as needed.
EXAMPLE: Language bar on taskbar and sign-in screen
Here's How:
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
3 Click/tap on Advanced...
This tutorial will show you how to use the desktop language bar on taskbar language bar for your account in Windows 11.
In Windows, you can change your keyboard layout to type in another language or input method you want to use..
The language of your keyboard layout controls the characters that appear on your screen when you type. By using the different layouts, you can type all the characters for the language, including diacritics such as the umlaut (ä) in German and the tilde (ñ) in Spanish.
When you add a language, the default keyboard layout for the language will be installed by default.
You can install additional keyboards for language-specific key layouts and input options. Adding an input language lets you set a...
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off use a different keyboard layout for each app window for your account in Windows 11.
In Windows, you can change your keyboard layout to type in another language or input method you want to use..
The language of your keyboard layout controls the characters that appear on your screen when you type. By using the different layouts, you can type all the characters for the language, including diacritics such as the umlaut (ä) in German and the tilde (ñ) in Spanish.
When you add a language, the default keyboard layout for the language will be installed by default.
You can install additional keyboards for language-specific key layouts and input options. Adding an input language lets you set a...
This tutorial will show you how to change the region and language used for content on the Widgets board for your account in Windows 11.
Widgets in Windows are interactive elements that display dynamic content and provide quick access to various apps and features. You can view your location's current weather conditions directly on the taskbar and hover over the icon to see concise, scannable information on topics like sports, stocks, local news, and breaking headlines. Widgets are designed to help you staying informed and organized by presenting personalized information at a glance.
Widgets are displayed on the Widgets board, which contains a collection of cards, each representing a widget with relevant information and actions related...
This tutorial will show you how to change the Internet time server (NTP server) used to synchronize your system clock in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
Time is a measure in which events can be ordered from the past through the present into the future, and also the measure of durations of events and the intervals between them.
Your PC's system clock is used to record the time whenever you create or modify files on your PC.
Your clock is typically automatically synced once a week and needs to be connected to the Internet for the synchronization to occur.
Windows uses the time.windows.com time server by default, but you change and use any time server you want instead.
List of time servers:
https://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/servers.cgi...
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