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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 Split Screen feature in Microsoft Edge
This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable the split screen feature in Microsoft Edge for your account or all users in Windows 10 and Windows 11. The Split Screen feature in Microsoft Edge allows you to view separate pages (links or tabs) in a single split screen window per tab within one Edge browser window. You can also resize the width of the pages on the split screen. Reference: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/features/split-screen?form=MA13FJ Option One: Enable or Disable Split Screen feature in Microsoft Edge for Current User in Settings Option Two: Enable or Disable Split Screen feature in Microsoft Edge for All Users EXAMPLE: Microsoft Edge split screen Enable or Disable Split Screen feature in...
Browsers and Mail
Configure Super Drag and Drop Website Block List in Microsoft Edge
This tutorial will show you how to add and remove website pages on the Super Drag and Drop block list in Microsoft Edge for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11. Starting in the latest Microsoft Edge Canary, Beta, and Dev versions, you can enable the Super Drag and Drop feature that allows you to drag a link or text on a webpage, and drop it on the same page to make it easier and faster to open the url in a new tab or search the text by Bing or default search engine in a new tab. If you enable and turn on the Super Drag and Drop feature in Microsoft Edge, you can add and remove website pages on a block list to disable super drag drop for specific added pages you want. Here's How: 1 Open Microsoft Edge. 2 Click/tap on the...
Browsers and Mail
Change Keyboard Shortcut to Launch Copilot Vision on Screen in Microsoft Edge
This tutorial will show you how to change the keyboard shortcut used to launch Copilot Vision (Circle to Copilot) on screen in Microsoft Edge for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11. The Copilot Vision (Circle to Copilot) setting is no longer available in Microsoft Edge. The Enable Copilot Vision for anything on screen setting allows you to use the right mouse button to circle content on your screen to send to Copilot. You can press the Alt + Shift + S keys by default to launch Copilot Vision on screen, but you can change the keyboard shortcut to customize it for what you want. Currently, the Copilot Vision feature is only available in the latest Microsoft Edge Dev and Canary versions. The Copilot Vision feature in Edge...
Browsers and Mail
Enable or Disable Preview Microsoft Edge Releases Early
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off Preview Microsoft Edge releases early for your account on Windows 11 Insider builds. The Microsoft Edge web browser is based on Chromium and was released on January 15, 2020. It is compatible with all supported versions of Windows, and macOS. With speed, performance, best in class compatibility for websites and extensions, and built-in privacy and security features. It’s never been easier for Windows Insider Program (WIP) members to preview new Microsoft Edge releases. Previously you would have to download separate Microsoft Edge apps to view pre-release Microsoft Edge versions, but now WIP users in the Windows 11 Canary, Beta, and Dev Channels can do this inside the Microsoft Edge...
Browsers and Mail
Enable or Disable Designer Image Editor in Microsoft Edge
This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable the Designer Image Editor feature in Microsoft Edge for all users in Windows 10 and Windows 11. Microsoft Edge includes an Edit image feature that lets you directly Crop, Adjustment, Filter, and/or Mark-up images within Microsoft Edge. Microsoft has added a new Designer Image Editor hidden experimental feature for some in Microsoft Edge Canary that replaces the default image editor above with an AI powered editor. Currently, you can use the options below in the Designer Image Editor: AI tools = Remove background and Blur background Crop = Crop and rotate image Adjustment = Manually or Auto adjust Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, Temperature, and Sharpness Filters = Apply filters...
Browsers and Mail
Clear Windows Security Protection History in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to manually clear Windows Security protection history in Windows 10 and Windows 11. The Protection History page in the Windows Security app is where you can go to view recommendations and actions that Microsoft Defender Antivirus has taken on your behalf, Potentially Unwanted Apps that have been removed, or key services (ex: SmartScreen) that are turned off. Protection History only retains events for 15 days by default, after which they will automatically be cleared from history. Reference: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/protection-history-f1e5fd95-09b4-46d1-b8c7-1059a1e09708 You must be signed in as an administrator to clear protection history. Protection history events that require...
Privacy and Security
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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Extract Icon from EXE and DLL Files in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to extract icons contained within EXE and DLL files, and save the icon as a ICO, BMP, or PNG file in Windows 10 and Windows 11. You can install the free IconViewer app that uses a shell extension to add an Icons tab to the properties page of files (ex: EXE and DLL) that contain icons within them. While you must be signed in as an administrator to install the IconViewer app, all users will have the Icons tab available in the properties page of files that contain icons. Here's How: 1 If you haven't already, you will need to download and install IconViewer 3.02 x64 edition. (see screenshot below) https://www.botproductions.com/iconview/download.html 2 Open File Explorer (Win+E). 3 Navigate to and...
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Export List of Running and Stopped Services in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to export a list of all running and/or stopped services in Windows 10 and 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. The exported list will show you the StartType (ex: Automatic, Manual, Disabled), Status (stopped or running), Name, and DisplayName of each service. You can export the list of running and stopped services to either a TXT file, CSV file, or show in the terminal window. Option One: Export List of Running and Stopped Services in Command Prompt Option Two...
System
Add or Remove Devices and Printers in Navigation Pane of File Explorer in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to add or remove Devices and Printers in the navigation pane of File Explorer for your account in Windows 11. The Devices and Printers folder shows devices that are connected to a computer, including the document devices. When you select a device in Devices and Printers, Device Stage shows the details for that device. See also: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/print/device-experience-scenarios-for-document-devices When you try to open Devices and Printers from the Control Panel in an Insider build of Windows 11, it will now open to Settings > Bluetooth & devices instead. If you like, you can add Devices and Printers as its own separate group to the top or bottom of the...
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