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Use Find My Device to Remotely Lock your Windows 11 Device

Privacy and Security Use Find My Device to Remotely Lock your Windows 11 Device

This tutorial will show you how to use Find My Device to remotely lock your Windows 10 or Windows 11 device. Find My Device is a feature that can help you locate your Windows 11 device if it's lost or stolen. To use this feature, sign in to your device with a Microsoft account and make sure you're an administrator on it. This feature works when location services is turned on for your device, even if other users on the device have turned off location settings for their apps. Any time you attempt to locate the device online at Microsoft, users using the device will see a notification in the notification area. If you have Find My Device turned on, your device will automatically update its location periodically while connected to the...
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Enable or Disable Allow Location Override in Windows 11

Privacy and Security Enable or Disable Allow Location Override in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable allow location override to use location from remote connection instead of this device for your account in Windows 11. Microsoft operates a location service that helps determine the precise geographic location of your Windows device. The precise location of your device allows apps to give you directions, show shops and restaurants that are near you, and more. Instead of using your device’s GPS or Wi-Fi signals for location, you can allow location override, which will let apps use the location of a remote device. For example, when using Remote Desktop, you can find local printers around your client device instead of near the server that’s hosting the virtual machine you’ve connected...
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Enable or Disable Cloud Content Search for Accounts in Windows 11

Privacy and Security Enable or Disable Cloud Content Search for Accounts in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable Cloud content search for your account or all users in Windows 11. Windows Search lets you search from your taskbar to find what you’re looking for, whether it’s on your device, in the cloud, or on the web. Windows Search can personalize your search results by including your content from OneDrive, SharePoint, Outlook, Bing, and other services. If you turn on the Microsoft account setting for Cloud content search, Windows Search will show results from items in your personal OneDrive, Outlook, and other Microsoft services. If you search the web or get web search suggestions with Windows Search, Bing will personalize your results. You can also earn Microsoft Rewards points when you...
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Enable or Disable Advertising ID for Personalized Ads in Apps in Windows 11

Privacy and Security Enable or Disable Advertising ID for Personalized Ads in Apps in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable letting apps use advertising ID for relevant ads for your account or all users in Windows 11. Windows generates a unique advertising ID for each user on a device, which app developers and advertising networks can then use for their own purposes, including providing more relevant advertising in apps. When the advertising ID is enabled, apps can access and use it in much the same way that websites can access and use a unique identifier stored in a cookie. Thus, app developers (and the advertising networks they work with) can associate personal data they collect about you with your advertising ID and use that personal data to provide more relevant advertising and other personalized...
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Enable or Disable Clear TPM button in Windows Security in Windows 11

Privacy and Security Enable or Disable Clear TPM button in Windows Security in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable the Clear TPM button in the Windows Security app for all users in Windows 10 and Windows 11. Trusted Platform Module (TPM) technology is designed to provide hardware-based, security-related functions. A TPM chip is a secure crypto-processor that is designed to carry out cryptographic operations. The chip includes multiple physical security mechanisms to make it tamper resistant, and malicious software is unable to tamper with the security functions of the TPM. You can clear the TPM as a troubleshooting step, or as a final preparation before a clean installation of a new operating system. Preparing for a clean installation in this way helps ensure that the new operating system can...
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Clear TPM in Windows 11

Privacy and Security Clear TPM in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to clear the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) security processor to reset it back to a default state. Trusted Platform Module (TPM) technology is designed to provide hardware-based, security-related functions. A TPM chip is a secure crypto-processor that is designed to carry out cryptographic operations. The chip includes multiple physical security mechanisms to make it tamper resistant, and malicious software is unable to tamper with the security functions of the TPM. You can clear the TPM as a troubleshooting step, or as a final preparation before a clean installation of a new operating system. Preparing for a clean installation in this way helps ensure that the new operating system can fully deploy any...
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Check TPM version in Windows 10 and Windows 11

Privacy and Security Check TPM version in Windows 10 and Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to check which Trusted Platform Module (TPM) version you have on your Windows 10 and Windows 11 PC. Windows 11 requires a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) version 2.0 or higher. Trusted Platform Module (TPM) technology is designed to provide hardware-based, security-related functions. A TPM chip is a secure crypto-processor that is designed to carry out cryptographic operations. The chip includes multiple physical security mechanisms to make it tamper resistant, and malicious software is unable to tamper with the security functions of the TPM. Some of the advantages of using TPM technology are: Generate, store, and limit the use of cryptographic keys. Use it for device authentication by using the TPM's...
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See which Apps have Accessed your Location in Windows 11

Privacy and Security See which Apps have Accessed your Location in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to see which apps have accessed your device location in the last 7 days for your account in Windows 11. Microsoft operates a location service that helps determine the precise geographic location of your Windows device. The precise location of your device allows apps to give you directions, show shops and restaurants that are near you, and more. When one or more apps are currently using your device location through the Windows location service, you’ll see the location icon in the notification area (system tray) of your taskbar. You can view location recent activity to see which apps have accessed your location in the last 7 days. This can be helpful for privacy and to turn off apps you don't want to...
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Enable or Disable Periodic Scanning in Microsoft Defender Antivirus in Windows 11

Privacy and Security Enable or Disable Periodic Scanning in Microsoft Defender Antivirus in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable Periodic Scanning in Microsoft Defender Antivirus when you have a 3rd party antivirus program installed in Windows 11. Microsoft Defender Antivirus is an antivirus software that is included in Windows 11 and can help protect your device from viruses, malware, and other threats. Limited periodic scanning is a special type of threat detection and remediation that can be enabled when you have installed another antivirus product on a Windows 10 or Windows 11 device. This feature only uses a limited subset of the Microsoft Defender Antivirus capabilities to detect malware, and will not be able to detect most malware and potentially unwanted software. Also, management and reporting...
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Disable Collect App Usage Data by Amazon Appstore for WSA in Windows 11

Privacy and Security Disable Collect App Usage Data by Amazon Appstore for WSA in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to disable allowing the Amazon Appstore to collect information on the frequency and duration of use of downloaded apps from the Appstore for you account in Windows 11. The Amazon Appstore app gets installed as part of installing Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA). WSA enables your Windows 11 device to run Android apps available from the Amazon Appstore. By default, the Amazon Appstore collects information on the frequency and duration of use of downloaded apps in order to improve the Appstore experience and the quality of apps Amazon make available. Amazon may also share aggregated or other non-personally identifiable app usage information with developers to help them improve their apps. If you don't...
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Enable or Disable Choose Privacy Settings Experience at Sign-in in Windows 11

Privacy and Security Enable or Disable Choose Privacy Settings Experience at Sign-in in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable the "Choose privacy settings for your device" experience at sign in for specific users or all users in Windows 11. When signing in to a new user account for the first time or after an update in some scenarios, that user may be presented with a screen that prompts the user to choose privacy settings for their account. If you like, you can disable showing the "Choose privacy settings for your device" experience at sign in. Users will still be able to manually change these privacy settings below at anytime. Enable or Disable Location Services in Windows 11 Enable or Disable Improve Inking and Typing in Windows 11 Enable or Disable Tailored Experiences in Windows 11 Enable or Disable...
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Check if Process is using Hardware-enforced Stack Protection in Windows 11

Privacy and Security Check if Process is using Hardware-enforced Stack Protection in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to check if a process is using Hardware-enforced Stack Protection in Windows 10 an Windows 11. Hardware-enforced Stack Protection offers robust protection against Return Oriented Programming (ROP) exploits since it maintains a record of the intended execution flow of a program. The Kernel Mode Hardware Enforced Stack Protection security feature is applicable to Windows 11, version 22H2 and above, and provides additional security enhancement for kernel code. You can use Task Manager to understand the state of enforcement of processes for Hardware-enforced Stack Protection. Reference...
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