This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable Adaptive Touch mode for your account on Microsoft Surface devices with a Precision Haptic Touchpad running Windows 11.
Adaptive Touch is an accessibility setting that lets you use your knuckle, palm, or other body part on the touchpad. The Surface Precision Haptic touchpad’s haptic motors deliver tactile feedback that simulates the feeling of physical clicks or taps. This gives you a more intuitive and immersive experience while using a Surface device.
With Adaptive Touch active, the touchpad responds to limb different inputs. You can adjust haptic settings and customize the touchpad’s settings to work for your specific needs, for example you can adjust the resize of the right click...
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Disable Automatic Windows Updates 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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Uninstall or Reinstall Copilot app
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Add or Remove "Learn about this picture" Desktop icon
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Tutorials
Windows 11 tutorials, tricks, tips, and guides.
This tutorial will show you how to use and turn on or off scan mode in Narrator 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.
Scan mode in Narrator is a navigation and reading mode that lets you navigate apps, email, and webpages using the arrow keys. You’ll also be able to use common keyboard shortcuts to read text and jump directly to headings, links, tables, and landmarks.
When scan mode is turned on...
This tutorial will show you how to change mouse pointer style, color, and size for your account in Windows 11.
The mouse pointer, which is sometimes referred to as the cursor, is a bitmap that specifies a focus point on the screen for user input with the mouse.
Windows uses schemes for the appearance of your mouse pointer by default.
You can change the mouse pointer style, color, and size to make it easier to see in Windows 11.
When you change the style and color of the mouse pointer, your mouse pointer scheme will be changed to (None) since it's using unsaved custom settings.
Your mouse pointer settings are saved to the two registry keys below.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Cursors...
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off show the mouse keys notification icon on the taskbar system tray when using mouse keys for your account in Windows 11.
Mouse Keys lets you use the numeric keypad on your keyboard—instead of the mouse—to move the pointer.
When mouse keys is turned on, you can only use mouse keys when Num Lock is on by default. Num Lock will toggle mouse keys active or inactive without turning off mouse keys.
Reference:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/use-mouse-keys-to-move-the-mouse-pointer-9e0c72c8-b882-7918-8e7b-391fd62adf33
The "Show the mouse keys icon on the taskbar" setting and other mouse keys settings are saved to the Flags string value (REG_SZ) in the registry key below for the...
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off only use mouse keys when Num Lock is on for your account in Windows 11.
Mouse Keys lets you use the numeric keypad on your keyboard—instead of the mouse—to move the pointer.
When mouse keys is turned on, you can only use mouse keys when Num Lock is on by default. Num Lock will toggle mouse keys active or inactive without turning off mouse keys.
Reference:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/use-mouse-keys-to-move-the-mouse-pointer-9e0c72c8-b882-7918-8e7b-391fd62adf33
The "Only use mouse keys when Num lock is on" setting and other mouse keys settings are saved to the Flags string value (REG_SZ) in the registry key below for the current user.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control...
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off "Hold the Ctrl key to speed up and Shift key to slow down" the pointer when using mouse keys for your account in Windows 11.
Mouse Keys lets you use the numeric keypad on your keyboard—instead of the mouse—to move the pointer.
Reference:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/use-mouse-keys-to-move-the-mouse-pointer-9e0c72c8-b882-7918-8e7b-391fd62adf33
The "Hold the Ctrl key to speed up and Shift key to slow down" setting and other mouse keys settings are saved to the Flags string value (REG_SZ) in the registry key below for the current user.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Accessibility\MouseKeys
Option One: Enable or Disable Control Mouse Keys Speed with Ctrl and Shift...
This tutorial will show you how to change how quickly the pointer starts and stops when using mouse keys for your account in Windows 11.
Mouse Keys lets you use the numeric keypad on your keyboard—instead of the mouse—to move the pointer.
Reference:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/use-mouse-keys-to-move-the-mouse-pointer-9e0c72c8-b882-7918-8e7b-391fd62adf33
Option One: Change Mouse Keys Acceleration in Settings
Option Two: Change Mouse Keys Acceleration in Control Panel
Option Three: Change Mouse Keys Acceleration in Registry Editor
Change Mouse Keys Acceleration in Settings
1 Open Settings (Win+I).
2 Click/tap on Accessibility on the left side, and click/tap on Mouse on the right side. (see screenshot below)
Open...
This tutorial will show you how to change how fast the pointer moves when using mouse keys for your account in Windows 11.
Mouse Keys lets you use the numeric keypad on your keyboard—instead of the mouse—to move the pointer.
Reference:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/use-mouse-keys-to-move-the-mouse-pointer-9e0c72c8-b882-7918-8e7b-391fd62adf33
Option One: Change Mouse Keys Speed in Settings
Option Two: Change Mouse Keys Speed in Control Panel
Option Three: Change Mouse Keys Speed in Registry Editor
Change Mouse Keys Speed in Settings
1 Open Settings (Win+I).
2 Click/tap on Accessibility on the left side, and click/tap on Mouse on the right side. (see screenshot below)
Open Mouse settings
3 Adjust the Mouse keys...
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off the profanity filter in 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.
You can turn on the Filter profanity option to mask profanity in live captions.
Reference:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/use-live-captions-to-better-understand-audio-b52da59c-14b8-4031-aeeb-f6a47e6055df#bkmk_getmost
Option One: Turn On and Off Live Captions Profanity Filter from Live Captions bar
Option Two: Turn On and Off Live Captions Profanity Filter using REG file
Turn On and Off Live Captions Profanity Filter from Live Captions bar
1 While you have...
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off the Include microphone audio option in 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.
When the Include microphone audio option is turned on, any audio captured by your microphone will be captioned, provided that no other audio on your device is being captioned. For example, if you use live captions to caption an online meeting with another person, if you both speak over each other, you will only see the captions for the other person while the other person is speaking.
To improve captioning accuracy when using the microphone, make sure to minimize...
This tutorial will show you how to change the keyboard character repeat rate for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
You can change the keyboard character repeat delay and rate for when you press and hold down a key.
The repeat delay is the pause between pressing a key and when it starts repeating.
The repeat rate is the speed at which it repeats.
Option One: Change Keyboard Character Repeat Rate in Keyboard Properties
Option Two: Change Keyboard Character Repeat Rate in Registry Editor
Change Keyboard Character Repeat Rate in Keyboard Properties
1 Open the Control Panel (icons view), and click/tap on the Keyboard icon.
2 Click/tap on the Speed tab in Keyboard Properties. (see screenshot below)
3 Adjust the Repeat...
This tutorial will show you how to change the mouse pointer indicator color for your account in Windows 11.
Starting with Windows 11 build 26058 (Canary and Dev), Microsoft added a mouse pointer indicator feature that allows low vision users on Windows to now easily locate and use their cursor. This will allow these users to be more productive and efficient when using a Windows device.
You can choose a custom color for the mouse pointer indicator.
Starting with Windows 11 build 26100.4202 (24H2), Mouse settings are now easier to access under Settings > Accessibility > Mouse and Mouse pointer and touch, with no need to open Control Panel.
The mouse pointer indicator color is stored in the Color DWORD value at the registry key below...
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