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Enable or Disable Startup App Notification in Windows 11

System Enable or Disable Startup App Notification in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off Startup App Notification for your account in Windows 11. Notifications are alerts from apps, system, and other senders. You can turn on Startup App Notification to get a notification whenever a new app registers itself to run at startup. Option One: Turn On or Off Startup App Notification in Settings Option Two: Turn On or Off Startup App Notification using REG file EXAMPLE: Startup App Notification Turn On or Off Startup App Notification in Settings 1 Open Settings (Win+I). 2 Click/tap on System on the left side, and click/tap on Notifications on the right side. (see screenshot below) Open Notifications settings 3 Turn On or Off (default) Startup App Notification for...
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Clear Clipboard History Data in Windows 11

System Clear Clipboard History Data in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to clear clipboard history data for your account in Windows 11. When you copy something on your Windows PC, it’s automatically copied to your clipboard for you to paste. Clipboard History in Windows 10 and Windows 11 lets you save multiple items to your clipboard. Clipboard history also allows you to copy images and text from one PC to another with a cloud-based clipboard. Not only can you can paste from your clipboard history, but you can also pin the items you tend to use all the time and sync your clipboard history to the cloud. Reference: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/get-help-with-clipboard-30375039-ce71-9fe4-5b30-21b7aab6b13f Clipboard history size limitations are 4 MB per item...
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Enable or Disable to Allow Wake Timers in Windows 11

System Enable or Disable to Allow Wake Timers in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable to allow wake timers to wake the computer in Windows 10 and Windows 11. A wake timer is a timed event that wakes the computer from a sleep or hibernate state at a specific time to perform scheduled tasks. Important wake timers includes things like a required reboot after a Windows update. They supersede all other settings. Option One: Enable or Disable to Allow Wake Timers in Power Options Option Two: Enable or Disable to Allow Wake Timers using Command Enable or Disable to Allow Wake Timers in Power Options 1 Open the advanced power settings of a power plan you want to enable or disable wake timers for. This will usually be for your active power plan. 2 Expand open Sleep in...
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Change Power Plan Settings in Windows 11

System Change Power Plan Settings in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to change the settings of a power plan to customize how you want in 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 scheme. Windows 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...
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Enable or Disable Fast Boot in UEFI BIOS Firmware Settings in Windows 11

System Enable or Disable Fast Boot in UEFI BIOS Firmware Settings in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable Fast Boot in UEFI BIOS firmware settings for Windows 11. UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) is a standard firmware interface for PCs, designed to replace BIOS (basic input/output system). This standard was created by over 140 technology companies as part of the UEFI consortium, including Microsoft. It's designed to improve software interoperability and address limitations of BIOS. Windows utilizes the UEFI to support the handoff of system control from the SoC firmware boot loader to the OS. The UEFI environment is a minimal boot OS upon which Windows devices are booted and the OS runs. Fast Boot is a feature in UEFI/BIOS that reduces your computer boot time with...
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Default UEFI/GPT Hard Drive Partition Layout Description for Windows 10 and 11

System Default UEFI/GPT Hard Drive Partition Layout Description for Windows 10 and 11

This tutorial will explain each partition of the default partition layout created when you clean install Windows 10 or Windows 11 on a blank hard disk drive (HDD) or solid-state drives (SSD). When you clean install Windows 10/11 to a blank unallocated disk with UEFI, the disk is formatted using a GUID partition table (GPT) file system. The default partition layout for UEFI-based PCs is: an EFI System Partition, an MSR, a Windows partition, and a Recovery Partition. This layout lets you use Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption or Device Encryption through both Windows and through the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE). Reference...
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View Apps and Drivers Preventing Sleep and Turning off Display in Windows 11

System View Apps and Drivers Preventing Sleep and Turning off Display in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to view a list of app and driver Power Requests that prevent the computer from automatically powering off the display or entering a low-power sleep mode in Windows 10 and Windows 11. By default, Windows based platforms enable device and system power management technologies to help improve energy efficiency and reduce power consumption. Two of the most effective power management features are display power management and automatic sleep. However, in some scenarios, applications or drivers must temporarily disable these power management technologies to perform tasks as the user expects. A good example is video playback. If the computer plays a DVD for several hours, the user does not interact with the...
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Use System File Checker (SFC) to Repair System Files in Windows 11

System Use System File Checker (SFC) to Repair System Files in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to run the System File Checker (SFC) tool to repair missing, corrupted, and modified system files in Windows 10 and Windows 11. System File Checker (SFC) is a tool built into Windows that will check for system file corruption. The SFC /SCANNOW command scans and verifies the integrity of all protected system files and replaces missing or corrupted versions with correct versions when possible. If this command discovers that a protected file has been overwritten, it retrieves the correct version of the file from the Windows image component store, and then replaces the missing or corrupted file. Reference...
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Enable or Disable Show Snap Groups on Alt+Tab, Task View, and Taskbar in Windows 11

System Enable or Disable Show Snap Groups on Alt+Tab, Task View, and Taskbar in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable show snap groups on taskbar thumbnails, Alt+Tab, and Task View for your account in Windows 11. The Snap windows feature in Windows allows you to automatically resize and arrange windows on your screen. Windows 11 includes a new snap layouts feature that allows you to select how to snap the current window. Just hover your mouse over a window’s maximize button to see available snap layouts, then click on a zone to snap the window. You’ll then be guided to snap windows to the rest of the zones within the layout with guided snap assist. For smaller screens, you’ll be offered a set of 4 snap layouts. You can also invoke the snap layouts flyout with the Win + Z keyboard shortcut. Snap...
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Enable or Disable Title Bar Window Shake in Windows 11

System Enable or Disable Title Bar Window Shake in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable title bar window shake for your account or all users in Windows 11. Title bar window shake (aka: Aero Shake) allows you to grab a window's title bar and shake it to minimize all other windows. Shaking the title bar again will restore all the minimized windows. Option One: Turn On or Off Title Bar Window Shake for Current User in Settings Option Two: Turn On or Off Title Bar Window Shake for Current User using REG file Option Three: Turn On or Off Title Bar Window Shake for Current User in Registry Editor Option Four: Enable or Disable Title Bar Window Shake for All Users using REG file Turn On or Off Title Bar Window Shake for Current User in Settings 1 Open Settings (Win+I)...
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Enable or Disable Snap Window without Dragging All the Way to Screen Edge in Windows 11

System Enable or Disable Snap Window without Dragging All the Way to Screen Edge in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable snap a window without dragging it all the way to the screen edge for your account in Windows 11. The Snap windows feature in Windows allows you to automatically resize and arrange windows on your screen. In previous Windows, you had to drag a window until the pointer reached all the way to the screen edge to snap it. Windows 11 now allows you to snap a window without dragging it all the way to the screen edge. You will now see a snap layout to snap the window as you get near the screen edge. Option One: Enable or Disable Snap Window without Dragging All the Way to Screen Edge in Settings Option Two: Enable or Disable Snap Window without Dragging All the Way to Screen Edge using...
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Enable or Disable Snap Layouts on Top of Screen in Windows 11

System Enable or Disable Snap Layouts on Top of Screen in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable showing snap layouts when dragging a window to the top of the screen for your account in Windows 11. The Snap windows feature in Windows allows you to automatically resize and arrange windows on your screen. Windows 11 includes a Snap Layouts feature that allows you to select how to snap the current window. Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/desktop/modernize/apply-snap-layout-menu Starting with Windows 11 build 22557, Microsoft added a new way to snap windows into snap layouts that works wonderfully with both touch and mouse! To try it out, just drag a window to the top of the screen to reveal the snap layouts, drop the window on top of a zone to snap it...
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