This tutorial will show you different ways on how to manually change the time zone for all users in 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).
You can choose to let Windows 11 set your time zone automatically based on your region, or you can set the time zone manually.
Starting with Windows 11 version 22H2 KB5030310 Build 22621.2361, if location settings are disabled, a warning is now shown to the user, urging them to enable location settings to ensure accurate time zone adjustments. This warning provides helpful...
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Disable Automatic Windows Updates in Windows 11
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Use ViVeTool to Enable or Disable Hidden Features in Windows 11
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Restore Classic File Explorer with Ribbon in Windows 11
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Create Windows 11 Bootable USB Installation Media
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Use SFC to Repair System Files in Windows 11
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Download Official Windows 11 ISO file from Microsoft
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Tutorials
Windows 11 tutorials, tricks, tips, and guides.
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 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...
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off show the touch keyboard when there's no keyboard attached for your account in Windows 11.
Windows 11 includes a touch keyboard you can click/tap on to enter text. This can be handy if you have a PC with a touchscreen without a physical keyboard.
You can turn on or off to automatically show the touch keyboard when there's no keyboard attached. If turned on, just tap where you’d like to enter text and the touch keyboard will pop up.
Starting with Windows 11 build 22621.1928, Microsoft is trying out a new touch keyboard setting that replaces the “Show the touch keyboard when there’s no keyboard attached” checkbox with a new dropdown menu with 3 options to control whether tapping an edit...
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.
Your country or region location setting is saved to the Name and Nation string...
This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable changing the country or region geographic location (GeoID) for specific or all users in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
The country or region home location in Windows, referred to as geographic location (GeoID), indicates the country or region you are in.
You must be signed in as an administrator to enable or disable changing the country or region geographic location (GeoID).
Option One: Enable or Disable Changing Country or Region GeoID for All or Specific Users in Local Group Policy Editor
Option Two: Enable or Disable Changing Country or Region GeoID for All Users using REG file
EXAMPLE: Change country or region geographic location (GeoID) disabled
Enable or Disable...
This tutorial will show you how to change the order added languages appear in on the language bar for your account in Windows 11.
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.
You can change the order languages appear in on the language bar to the order you want.
Added keyboard layouts are grouped with their language for the order on the language bar. If you change the order of a language, all of its keyboard layouts get moved along with it as a group.
EXAMPLE: Language bar
Here's How:
1 Open...
This tutorial will show you how to manually synchronize the clock time with an Internet time server for all users in 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.
You can synchronize the Windows system clock with an Internet time server to match the time on the time server. This will help ensure the clock's time on your PC is accurate.
Your clock is typically automatically synced once a week and needs to be connected to the Internet for the synchronization to occur.
References...
This tutorial will show you how to change the time format used for your account in Windows 11.
Your regional format settings will influence how your date/time, numeric, and currency data types appear when you apply formatting options. Windows supports a variety of languages, plus currency and date/time formats for the countries/regions that use those languages.
You can change the short time and long time to a custom format you want used and displayed in Windows.
The time on the taskbar uses the short time format.
Reference:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/change-the-windows-regional-settings-to-modify-the-appearance-of-some-data-types-edf41006-f6e2-4360-bc1b-30e9e8a54989
Time formats for the current user are saved to...
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off highlight misspelled words for your account in Windows 11.
Windows 11 includes a spell checking feature for when you type words anywhere in Windows 11.
When highlight misspelled words is turned on, your typed misspelled words that are not found in your personal dictionary will be highlighted with a red squiggly line under it. You can then right click on this highlighted misspelled word for more options.
Option One: Turn On or Off Highlight Misspelled Words in Settings
Option Two: Turn On or Off Highlight Misspelled Words using REG file
Turn On or Off Highlight Misspelled Words in Settings
1 Open Settings (Win+I).
2 Click/tap on Time & language on the left side, and click/tap on...
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 turn on or off Typing Insights for your account in Windows 11.
Windows shows you insights about how its AI has been helping you type with efficiency. If you use the software keyboard (ex: Touch Keyboard or On-Screen Keyboard) on Windows, there are many features built into the typing experience that leverage AI and ML to help you be more efficient. Some examples include autocorrecting your spelling mistakes, prediction of the next word you would type, word suggestions as you start typing so you don’t have to type the full word and the number of words you’ve typed by swiping over the letters on the software keyboard.
Windows shows you stats about each of these features. Currently these stats cover the...
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