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Add Language for Live Captions in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to add languages to use with Live Captions for your account in Windows 11. Live captions helps everyone, including people who are deaf or hard-of-hearing, better understand audio by providing automatic transcription. Captions are automatically generated on-device from any content with audio. The captions position can be displayed at the top or bottom of the screen, or in a floating window. The caption window can be resized, and caption appearance can be personalized by applying or customizing a caption style. Microphone audio can be included, which can be helpful during in-person conversations. You can add supported languages for Live Captions. When the installation of the enhanced speech recognition...
Time and Language
Snooze Email in Outlook for Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to snooze emails for Mail in the Outlook for Windows app for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11. The new Outlook for Windows brings the latest features, intelligent assisted capabilities and a new modern and simplified design to your Outlook app. You can tailor it to your style and do more with new Outlook for Windows. Sometimes email is very important, but not yet. You can snooze an email to temporarily remove it from your inbox and schedule it to be re-delivered to your inbox, appearing at the date and time you want it to, so you can handle it when it’s the right time for you. Reference: https://support.microsoft.com/en-US/Outlook/getstarted/getting-started-with-the-new-outlook-for-windows...
Browsers and Mail
Change Touch Double-tap Speed in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to change the touch double-tap speed for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11. A touch screen, or touchscreen, is an input device that enables you to interact directly with what is displayed, rather than using a mouse, touchpad, or other such devices (other than a stylus, which is optional for most modern touch screens). If your device (ex: laptop or tablet) has a touch screen, you can adjust how quickly you tap the screen when you double-tap. Option One: Change Touch Double-tap Speed in Settings Option Two: Change Touch Double-tap Speed in Control Panel Option Three: Change Touch Double-tap Speed in Registry Editor Change Touch Double-tap Speed in Settings 1 Open Settings (Win+I). 2...
Accessibility
Change Default Start Page for Task Manager in Windows 11
This tutorial will show yo how to change the default start page for Task Manager for your account in Windows 11. Task Manager can be used to view and manage your processes, performance statistics, app history, startup apps, users, process details, and services in Windows 11. Starting with Windows 11 build 22557, Microsoft has updated the design of Task Manager to match the new Windows 11 design principles. This includes a new hamburger style navigation bar and a new settings page. A new command bar on each page gives access to common actions. The dark theme has now been brought to Task manager and will automatically match the system-wide theme configured in the Settings app. You can press the Ctrl + Page Up and Ctrl + Page Down keys...
General
Pin and Unpin Email Messages in Outlook for Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to pin and unpin email messages to the top of your inbox in the Outlook for Windows app for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11. The new Outlook for Windows brings the latest features, intelligent assisted capabilities and a new modern and simplified design to your Outlook app. You can tailor it to your style and do more with new Outlook for Windows. You can pin an email message to move it to the top of your inbox in Outlook so it's easy to find later. Reference: https://support.microsoft.com/en-US/Outlook/getstarted/getting-started-with-the-new-outlook-for-windows Option One: Pin Email Message to Top of Inbox in Outlook for Windows Option Two: Unpin Email Message from Top of Inbox in...
Browsers and Mail
Enable or Disable Conversation View in Outlook for Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off conversation view for Mail in the Outlook for Windows app for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11. The new Outlook for Windows brings the latest features, intelligent assisted capabilities and a new modern and simplified design to your Outlook app. You can tailor it to your style and do more with new Outlook for Windows. You can change the appearance of the message list and reading pane. Email in the message list can be displayed as individual messages or grouped by conversation. By default, when you add most account types to Outlook, your messages are displayed in Conversations. A conversation includes all messages in the same thread with the same subject line. References...
Browsers and Mail
Customize Quick Actions on Message Surface in Outlook for Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to add and remove quick actions on the Mail message surface in the Outlook for Windows app for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11. The new Outlook for Windows brings the latest features, intelligent assisted capabilities and a new modern and simplified design to your Outlook app. You can tailor it to your style and do more with new Outlook for Windows. You can choose actions and add-ins you want to see on the message surface when you select a message to read in Mail in Outlook for Windows. EXAMPLE: Quick actions on Mail message surface in Outlook for Windows Here's How: 1 Open the Outlook for Windows app. 2 Click/tap on the Settings (gear) icon on the toolbar. (see screenshot below) 3...
Browsers and Mail
Enable and Disable Services in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to enable and disable services in Windows 11. Services are an application type that runs in the system background without a user interface. Services provide core operating system features (such as printing, networking, remote access, File Explorer, Windows Search, updates, etc.) and apps to operate as intended. Usually, Windows does a great job of automatically managing services, but sometimes you may need to manually enable or disable a service on demand. If you disable a service, any dependent services are also affected. Enabling a service does not automatically restart its dependent services. Changing the default service settings may prevent key services from running correctly. It is especially...
System
Customize Quick Actions on Messages in Outlook for Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to add and remove quick actions on Mail messages in the Outlook for Windows app for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11. The new Outlook for Windows brings the latest features, intelligent assisted capabilities and a new modern and simplified design to your Outlook app. You can tailor it to your style and do more with new Outlook for Windows. You can customize your most frequently used actions that appear beside sender names and subject lines on a selected message in your message list in Mail in Outlook for Windows. A maximum of four quick actions are currently only supported at this time, but you can right click on messages to see and use the full list of available actions. Changes you make to...
Browsers and Mail
Turn On or Off Download Device Software over Metered Connections in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off download drivers and device software from Windows Update over metered connections in Windows 11. A metered connection is an Internet connection that has a data limit associated with it. Cellular data connections are set as metered by default. Wi-Fi and Ethernet network connections can be set to metered but aren't by default. Some apps might work differently on a metered connection to help reduce your data usage. Also, some updates for Windows won't be installed automatically. Device software (drivers, info, and apps) for new devices will not download from Windows Update on metered internet connections by default since data charges may apply. Option One: Turn On or Off Download...
Devices
Add and Remove Buttons on Simplified Ribbon in Outlook for Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to add and remove buttons on the Simplified Ribbon to customize it in the Outlook for Windows app for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11. The new Outlook for Windows brings the latest features, intelligent assisted capabilities and a new modern and simplified design to your Outlook app. You can tailor it to your style and do more with new Outlook for Windows. The Classic Ribbon in Outlook for Windows contains all of the options and commands that you use to accomplish tasks in Outlook. It can take up a lot of space on your screen though. The default Simplified Ribbon in Outlook for Windows shows your most used commands in a single line. However, with less available space for commands, not all of...
Browsers and Mail
Switch Between Classic and Simplified Ribbon in Outlook for Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to switch back and forth between using the classic and simplified ribbon layout in the Outlook for Windows app for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11. The new Outlook for Windows brings the latest features, intelligent assisted capabilities and a new modern and simplified design to your Outlook app. You can tailor it to your style and do more with new Outlook for Windows. Starting in June 2023, Microsoft is beginning the process of migrating existing Windows Mail, Calendar, and People users to the new Outlook for Windows. Beginning in 2024, Windows 11 devices will be shipped with the new Outlook for Windows as the default mailbox application free for all to use. The Mail and Calendar apps will...
Browsers and Mail

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