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Delete Power Plan in Windows 11

System Delete Power Plan in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to delete a power plan in Windows 10 and Windows 11. A power plan is a collection of hardware and system settings that manages how your computer uses power. Power plans can help you save energy, maximize system performance, or achieve a balance between the two. A power plan is also known as a power scheme. Changes made to a power plan settings will affect all users that use the same power plan as their default active power plan. Windows 10/11 includes the following power plans by default: Balanced = Offers full performance when you need it and saves power when you don't. This is the best power plan for most people. Allows you to change your Power Mode. Power saver = Saves power by reducing PC...
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Create Custom Power Plan in Windows 11

System Create Custom Power Plan in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to create a new custom power plan that can be used by all users on the Windows 10 or Windows 11 PC. A power plan is a collection of hardware and system settings that manages how your computer uses power. Power plans can help you save energy, maximize system performance, or achieve a balance between the two. A power plan is also known as a power scheme. You can customize the default plans for your systems, or create new custom plans that are based on the existing plans. Reference: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/create-a-custom-power-plan-technicalreference?view=windows-11 Option One: Create New Custom Power Plan in Control Panel Option Two: Create New Custom...
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Add or Remove Frequent Folders in Quick Access in Windows 11

General Add or Remove Frequent Folders in Quick Access in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to add or remove showing frequent folders (locations) in Quick access in File Explorer Home for your account in Windows 11. Starting with Windows 11 build 22593, Quick access in File Explorer (Win+E) is now called Home. The name Quick access has been repurposed for the pinned/frequent Folders section, and Pinned files is now called Favorites to align with Office and OneDrive. Recent and pinned files (Favorites) displayed in Home are now searchable using the search box in File Explorer even if they are not local files, so you can find Office files recently shared with you. Home in the navigation pane is the default homepage of File Explorer (Win+E) that allows you to quickly access and view your...
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Testing Macrium Reflect restore using VirtualBox virtual machine

Virtualization Testing Macrium Reflect restore using VirtualBox virtual machine

When making your first Macrium Reflect image of your PC the final test that the image is full and complete would be to boot from the Reflect rescue media and perform a full restore. This is not something you'd want to risk trying just as a test, so many do not do a restore until circumstances mean that they have to do it for real. That is perhaps not the best time to learn how to restore, and it's certainly a very bad time to find out that your image is missing an important partition. This article offers a safe way to practice a full bare metal restore to a new machine, without risking destroying your PC if it goes badly wrong. Rather than restoring to your (perhaps only) PC the restore will be performed in a Virtual Machine (VM)...
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Check Battery Usage per App in Windows 11

System Check Battery Usage per App in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to check battery usage per app for your account in Windows 11. You can check battery usage per app to see which apps might be using more battery in the background. Some apps let you manage background activity. If you find that an app is using a lot of battery when running in the background, you can change the Let this app run in the background setting for apps that allow it. Here's How: 1 Open Settings (Win+I). 2 Click/tap on System on the left side, and click/tap on Power & battery on the right side. (see screenshot below) Open Power & battery settings 3 Click/tap on Battery usage on the right side to expand it open. (see screenshot below step 4) 4 Under Battery levels, select Last 24 hours...
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Enable or Disable Desktop Stickers in Windows 11

Personalization Enable or Disable Desktop Stickers in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable Desktop Stickers for all users in Windows 11. Desktop Stickers is a feature in Windows 11 that allows you to choose and edit stickers for your wallpaper when using a picture and choose Fill for your desktop background image. Using the new sticker editor you can pick, place, and resize stickers as you like. It can be accessed through Settings or by right-clicking your desktop. When you change your desktop background picture, your stickers will still remain. Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/education/windows/edu-stickers The Desktop Stickers feature is currently not officially released to Windows 11 yet, but if you would like to give Desktop Stickers a play with now...
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Enable or Disable Show Narrator Home when Narrator Starts in Windows 11

Accessibility Enable or Disable Show Narrator Home when Narrator Starts in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off show Narrator Home when Narrator starts for your account in Windows 11. Narrator is a screen reader included with Windows 11 that describes what's on your screen. It lets you use your PC without a mouse to complete common tasks if you’re blind or have low vision. It reads and interacts with things on the screen, like text and buttons. Use Narrator to read and write email, browse the internet, and work with documents. Every time you turn on Narrator you’ll go to Narrator Home, which gives you one place where you can open everything you need, whether you want to change your Narrator settings or learn basics with QuickStart. The links at Narrator Home include QuickStart, Narrator guide...
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Enable or Disable Narrator Keyboard Shortcut in Windows 11

Accessibility Enable or Disable Narrator Keyboard Shortcut in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off the Narrator keyboard shortcut for your account in Windows 11. Narrator is a screen reader included with Windows 11 that describes what's on your screen. It lets you use your PC without a mouse to complete common tasks if you’re blind or have low vision. It reads and interacts with things on the screen, like text and buttons. Use Narrator to read and write email, browse the internet, and work with documents. You can use the Win+Ctrl+Enter keyboard shortcut to toggle Narrator on or off. If you like, you can disable the Narrator keyboard shortcut to prevent mistakenly turning on or off Narrator with it. Reference...
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Enable or Disable Automatically Start Narrator after Sign-in in Windows 11

Accessibility Enable or Disable Automatically Start Narrator after Sign-in in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off automatically start Narrator after sign-in for your account in Windows 11. Narrator is a screen reader included with Windows 11 that describes what's on your screen. IT lets you use your PC without a mouse to complete common tasks if you’re blind or have low vision. It reads and interacts with things on the screen, like text and buttons. Use Narrator to read and write email, browse the internet, and work with documents. References: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/chapter-1-introducing-narrator-7fe8fd72-541f-4536-7658-bfc37ddaf9c6#WindowsVersion=Windows_11 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/complete-guide-to-narrator-e4397a0d-ef4f-b386-d8ae-c172f109bdb1 Option...
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Enable or Disable Automatically Start Narrator before Sign-in in Windows 11

Accessibility Enable or Disable Automatically Start Narrator before Sign-in in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off automatically start Narrator before sign-in for all users in Windows 11. Narrator is a screen reader included with Windows 11 that describes what's on your screen. It lets you use your PC without a mouse to complete common tasks if you’re blind or have low vision. It reads and interacts with things on the screen, like text and buttons. Use Narrator to read and write email, browse the internet, and work with documents. References: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/chapter-1-introducing-narrator-7fe8fd72-541f-4536-7658-bfc37ddaf9c6#WindowsVersion=Windows_11 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/complete-guide-to-narrator-e4397a0d-ef4f-b386-d8ae-c172f109bdb1 You must be...
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Turn On or Off Narrator in Windows 11

Accessibility Turn On or Off Narrator in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off Narrator for your account in Windows 11. Narrator is a screen reader included with Windows 11 that describes what's on your screen. Narrator lets you use your PC without a mouse to complete common tasks if you’re blind or have low vision. It reads and interacts with things on the screen, like text and buttons. Use Narrator to read and write email, browse the internet, and work with documents. Narrator can use installed legacy and natural voices. Specific commands let you navigate Windows, the web, and apps. Navigation is available using headings, links, landmarks, and more. You can read text (including punctuation) by page, paragraph, line, sentence, word, and character, as well as...
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Show Drive Letters Before or After Drive Name in Windows 11

Devices Show Drive Letters Before or After Drive Name in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to show drive letters before or after drive labels (name) in File Explorer for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11. A drive letter is a single alphabetic character A through Z that has been assigned by Windows to a physical drive or drive partition connected to the computer to reference the drive by. EXAMPLE: Show drive letters before or after name in File Explorer > This PC Here's How: 1 Do step 2 (before) or step 3 (after) below for what you would like to do. Show Drive Letters Before Name in File Explorer A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below. Show_drive_letters_before_name_for_current_user.reg...
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