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Enable or Disable Copilot Automatic Read Responses Aloud in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off Copilot automatically reading responses aloud when input is by voice for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11. The Copilot setting in this tutorial is no longer available. Windows is the first PC platform to provide centralized AI assistance to you. Together with Microsoft Copilot (formerly Bing Chat), Copilot in Windows helps you get answers and inspirations from across the web, supports creativity and collaboration, and helps you focus on the task at hand. Do more with Copilot in Windows. Starting with Windows 11 build 22631.3810 and Windows 10 build 19045.4593 (RP and Beta) Microsoft is evolving the Copilot** experience on Windows as an app that will be pinned to the taskbar...
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Enable or Disable Save Chat History in Copilot app in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off automatically save chats (conversations) in the Copilot app for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11. The Copilot setting in this tutorial is no longer available. Windows is the first PC platform to provide centralized AI assistance to you. Together with Microsoft Copilot (formerly Bing Chat), Copilot in Windows helps you get answers and inspirations from across the web, supports creativity and collaboration, and helps you focus on the task at hand. Do more with Copilot in Windows. Starting with Windows 11 build 22631.3810 and Windows 10 build 19045.4593 (RP and Beta) Microsoft is evolving the Copilot** experience on Windows as an app that will be pinned to the taskbar. This...
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Install or Uninstall VBScript Feature in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to install or uninstall the VBScript optional feature for all users in Windows 11. A .vbs file is a Virtual Basic script written in the VBScript scripting language. It contains code that can be executed within Windows via the Windows-based script host (Wscript.exe), to perform certain admin and processing functions. VBScript is a legacy Scripting engine component, and Microsoft does not recommend using this component unless it is really required. Use this component at your own risk, this might contain security vulnerabilities. Starting with Windows 11 build 25309, you can now uninstall the VBScript feature if wanted. VBScript is being deprecated. In future releases of Windows, VBScript will be...
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Install Photos Legacy app in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to install the Photos Legacy app for your account in Windows 11. If you don't like the new Photos app in Windows 11 or prefer the old version for some tasks, you can download and install the Microsoft Photos Legacy app from the Microsoft Store. Photos Legacy is the app for Microsoft’s Legacy Collections, Albums, and Video Editor. Be empowered to do more with your photos and videos. Easily view, edit, compare, create albums, and make movies of your special memories. The filmstrip shows all the items from that location and allows you to jump to other photos while staying immersed in the experience. You can also compare photos and videos in the same app window using the multi-view mode. This is activated...
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Sign in or Sign out of Copilot
This tutorial will show you how how to sign in or sign out of Copilot with your Microsoft account on Web and Windows 11. Microsoft Copilot is an AI-powered digital assistant designed to help you with a range of tasks and activities. When you sign in to Copilot with your Microsoft account, Copilot uses your Microsoft account to provide personalized assistance and access by default to a wide range of features. For example, saving and syncing your Copilot chat history on all devices you sign in to Copilot with the same Microsoft account. Your Copilot activity history includes your interactions with Copilot. This activity history includes the things you type in Copilot while visiting copilot.microsoft.com, the Copilot app on Windows 11...
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Enable or Disable Snipping Tool Auto Save Screen Recordings in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off automatically save screen recordings for the Snipping Tool app for your account in Windows 11. The Snipping Tool app includes a built-in screen recorder and allows you to quickly take and annotate screenshots, photos and other images with your pen, touch, or mouse and save, paste or share with other apps. Microsoft is rolling out an update for Snipping Tool (version 11.2405.24.0 and newer) that introduces automatic save for screen recordings. This feature works the same as automatic save for screenshots. Your recordings will automatically be saved to the Screen Recordings folder (inside your Videos folder). You can choose to turn this off in Snipping Tool settings. Recordings from the...
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Clear Recent Media History in Media Player app in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to remove one or all items from recent media history in the Media Play app for your account in Windows 11. The built-in Media Player app in Windows 11 is designed to make listening to and watching your multimedia content more enjoyable. At the heart of Media Player is a full-featured music library that allows you to quickly browse and play music, as well as create and manage playlists. All your content in the music and video folders on your PC will appear automatically in your library. By default, Media Player will show all recently played media on the Home page under Recent media to make it easier to access or play again. You can manually clear your recent media history in Media Player whenever you...
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Change Windows Terminal Language in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to change the Windows Terminal language for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11. Windows Terminal is a modern host application for the command-line shells you already love, like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and bash (via Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)). Its main features include multiple tabs, panes, Unicode and UTF-8 character support, a GPU accelerated text rendering engine, and the ability to create your own themes and customize text, colors, backgrounds, and shortcuts. Windows Terminal uses the system default language by default, but you can select a preferred language to use in Windows Terminal instead. Reference...
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Create Desktop Shortcut of Microsoft Store Apps in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to create a desktop shortcut to open an app from the Microsoft Store for your account in Windows 11. Option One: Create Desktop Shortcut of Microsoft Store Apps from Start Menu Option Two: Create Desktop Shortcut of Microsoft Store Apps from Applications folder Option Three: Create Desktop Shortcut of Microsoft Store Apps using URI Command Option Four: Create Shortcut of Microsoft Store Apps using AppID Command Create Desktop Shortcut of Microsoft Store Apps from Start Menu 1 Open the Start menu :win:, and click/tap on All apps. (see screenshot below) 2 Drag an app (ex: "Cortana") you want from All apps to your desktop until you see Link above the app icon you are dragging, then drop the app on...
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Enable or Disable HDR Screenshot Color Corrector in Snipping Tool in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off the HDR screenshot color corrector feature in the Snipping Tool app for your account in Windows 11. The Snipping Tool app includes a built-in screen recorder and allows you to quickly take and annotate screenshots, photos and other images with your pen, touch, or mouse and save, paste or share with other apps. Starting with the Snipping Tool app version 11.2403.8.0, you can now use a HDR screenshot color corrector that automatically adjusts colors for screenshots taken on HDR monitors. Here's How: 1 Open the Snipping Tool app. 2 Click/tap on the See more (3 dots) button, and click/tap on Settings. (see screenshot below) 3 Turn On or Off (default) HDR screenshot color corrector...
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Enable or Disable Location Based Features for Photos app in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable the location based features in the Photos app for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11. The Microsoft Photos app included in Windows is a rich media experience that empowers you to do more with your photos and videos. View, organize, and share photos from your PC, OneDrive, iCloud Photos and other devices all from one gallery. You can turn on Enable Location Based Features in the Photos app to allow Microsoft to collect location data from associated media to improve your location based features. For example, Location Search to be able to search for your photos and videos by location or see location recommendations in the Photos app search bar. Reference...
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Enable or Disable Show Acrylic in Tab Row of Windows Terminal in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off using acrylic material in the tab row of Windows Terminal for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11. Windows Terminal is a modern host application for the command-line shells you already love, like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and bash (via Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)). Its main features include multiple tabs, panes, Unicode and UTF-8 character support, a GPU accelerated text rendering engine, and the ability to create your own themes and customize text, colors, backgrounds, and shortcuts. When you turn on "Use acrylic material in the tab row", the tab row in Windows Terminal is given an acrylic background at 50% opacity. When you turn off (default) "Use acrylic material in...
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