This tutorial will show you how to use Recall with snapshots of your activity to find and jump back into what you have seen before on your Windows 11 Copilot+ PC.
Recall is an experience exclusive to Copilot+ PCs that will help you easily find and remember things you've seen using natural language. To help provide you with that "photographic" memory, you can opt in to saving snapshots of your screen periodically. You can quickly search your snapshots to find things on your Copilot+ PC. For example, you can search for content you've seen in apps, websites, images, and documents. Recall doesn't record audio or save continuous video. It also doesn’t save game video when Game Mode is active on platforms that support it.
You're always in...
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How to Perform a Point-in-time Restore of Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to use the point-in-time restore feature to restore your Windows 11 PC to the exact state it was at an earlier point in time.- Brink
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Enable or Disable "Show more options" context menu
This tutorial will show you how to add or remove "Show more options" on the context menu, or enable or disable having to click on "Show more options" to see the full classic context menu in Windows 11.- Brink
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Customize Context Menu in File Explorer on Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to customize what appears in the context menu in File Explorer for your account in Windows 11.- Brink
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Cloud Rebuild Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to use Cloud rebuild to perform a full clean reinstall of Windows 11 from WinRE without USB media, custom image, or depending on the health of the currently installed OS.- Brink
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Disable Automatic Windows Updates in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to disable Windows Update from automatically downloading and installing updates in Windows 10 and Windows 11.- Brink
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Enable or Disable Hidden Feature Flags in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable hidden experimental feature flags in Windows 11.- Brink
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Create Windows 11 Bootable USB Installation Media
This tutorial will show you how to create a bootable USB flash drive used to install Windows 11 with UEFI support.- Brink
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Download Official Windows 11 ISO file from Microsoft
This tutorial will show you how to download an official Windows Server ISO or Windows 11 64-bit or ARM64 ISO file from Microsoft.- Brink
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Repair Install Windows 11 with an In-place Upgrade
This tutorial will show you how to do a repair install of Windows 11 by performing an in-place upgrade without losing anything.- Brink
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Clean Install Windows 11
This tutorial will show you step by step on how to clean install Windows 11 at boot on your PC with or without an Internet connection and setup with a local account or Microsoft account.- Brink
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Tutorials
Windows 11 tutorials, tricks, tips, and guides.
This tutorial will show you how to run CHKDSK to check a drive for file system errors in Windows 11.
Checking your drives for errors every once in a while can help fix some performance issues. Drive errors can usually be caused by bad sectors, improper shutdowns, bad software, corruption, physical damage, etc...
CHKDSK (Check Disk) checks the file system and file system metadata of a volume (drive) for logical and physical errors.
The chkdsk command is used to check the integrity of the file system on the hard drive and make necessary fixes. The command can also fix bad sectors on your hard drive.
Bad sectors are divided into "Soft bad sectors" and "Hard bad sectors". "Soft bad sectors" are logical bad sectors, and chkdsk can easily...
Privacy and Security Enable or Disable BitLocker to Unlock OS drive at Startup with PIN and USB in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable BitLocker to unlock the operating system drive at startup with a PIN or USB flash drive in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
BitLocker Drive Encryption is a data protection feature that integrates with the operating system and addresses the threats of data theft or exposure from lost, stolen, or inappropriately decommissioned drives and computers.
New files are automatically encrypted when you save them to a drive encrypted by BitLocker. However, if you copy these files to another drive or a different PC not encrypted by BitLocker, the files are automatically decrypted.
BitLocker checks the PC during startup for any conditions that could represent a security risk (for example, a change to...
This tutorial will show different ways on how to open Quick Settings in Windows 11.
Quick Settings (Win+A) gives you quick access from the taskbar corner to commonly used settings and apps like Volume, Brightness, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Airplane mode, Rotation lock, Battery saver, Accessibility, Night light, Mobile hotspot, Nearby sharing, Cast, and Project. Directly above your Quick Settings, you will see media playback controls when playing music or videos in Microsoft Edge or streaming music in apps like Spotify.
Microsoft now has a scrollable view of quick settings. As part of the change, rather than having to edit the list to add new quick actions, the user now has a scrollable list of quick actions that can be rearranged.
Starting...
This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable disk write caching for internal storage devices in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
Disk Write Caching for internal storage devices is enabled by default.
Write caching improves system performance by allowing Windows to cache disk write operations in system memory until it is written to the disk. This allows the system and apps to run faster by allowing them to continue without waiting on data write requests to be written to the disk.
However, a power outage or equipment failure might result in data loss or corruption if not written to the disk from the cache yet.
While it's recommended to leave write caching enabled for drives, you can disable write caching for devices if wanted or...
This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable allow Storage Sense to cleanup temporary files for all users in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
Storage Sense can automatically free up drive space for you by getting rid of items that you don't need, like temporary files and items in your Recycle Bin.
Storage Sense is off by default. If your PC runs into low disk space and you have not interacted with Storage Sense in the past, Windows may turn on Storage Sense to manage select temporary files, then notify you. If you prefer, you can choose to turn Storage Sense off right away or after the low disk state is resolved.
If Storage Sense is turned on with the default settings, it will run when your device is low on disk space and will...
This tutorial will show you how to hide or show widgets in the Widget Menu on the Home Bar of the Game Bar screen for your account in Windows 11.
You can open the Game Bar to take control of all your favorite gaming activities while playing on your Windows 11 device.
The Home Bar is the bar at the top of the Game Bar screen.
The Widget Menu on the Home Bar allows you to open installed widgets, and add or remove favorite widgets on the Home Bar.
You can choose to hide or show the following widgets in the widgets menu:
Xbox Achievements – Track your games’ progress and see what you’ve unlocked.
Xbox Chat - Send and receive chat or party chat messages with your friends.
Xbox Looking for Group – Use Looking for Group to find players...
This tutorial will show you how to add or remove the Empty folder context menu for folders for all users in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
You can add a Empty folder context menu to permanently delete the file contents of a folder after a one time Y/N confirmation to prevent emptying the folder by mistake.
Subfolders and their contents will not be deleted. Only the file contents in a folder you right clicked on will get permanently deleted.
While you must be signed in as an administrator to add or remove the context menu, all users can use the context menu.
EXAMPLE: Empty folder context menu
In Windows 11, you will need to click/tap on Show more options first by default, then click/tap on Empty folder.
Here's How:
1 Do step 2...
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off Game Bar Compact Mode for your account in Windows 11.
You can open the Game Bar to take control of all your favorite gaming activities while playing on your Windows 11 device.
Compact Mode simplifies Game Bar use, making it more intuitive and easier to navigate on small screens, Windows handhelds, and when playing with a controller.
When you open Game Bar with Compact Mode turned on, a single-widget view will be presented where you can access your Xbox gaming activities in one place.
If you turn on Game Bar Compact Mode, it will stay turned on whenever you open the Game Bar until turned off.
Features of Compact Mode:
Navigate with bumpers = When using a controller, you can switch...
This tutorial will show you how to view all AI components installed on your Windows 11 PC.
If your Windows 11 device (ex: Copilot+ PC) has a NPU, you will have a System > AI components page in Settings.
AI components are used on Copilot+ PCs and enable AI models to run locally, directly on the device.
You can see which AI component updates have been installed in Windows Update history.
Starting with Windows 11 build 26300.8553 (Experimental 25H2) for Insiders, Microsoft has made undocumented updates to AI components settings to include new subpages with more detailed information about models and an uninstall button.
Reference:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/ai-components-release-information
Here's How...
This tutorial will show you how to turn off BitLocker for an encrypted drive in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
BitLocker Drive Encryption is a data protection feature that integrates with the operating system and addresses the threats of data theft or exposure from lost, stolen, or inappropriately decommissioned drives and computers.
You can turn on BitLocker to encrypt the operating system drive (Windows drive), fixed data drives (internal hard drives), and removable data drives (external hard drive or USB flash drive).
When you turn off BitLocker for a drive encrypted by BitLocker, it will completely decrypt the drive.
It is required to unlock the BitLocker encrypted drive before being able to turn off BitLocker for the drive.
You...
This tutorial will show you how to manually run Storage Sense on demand in Windows 11.
Storage Sense can automatically free up drive space for you by getting rid of items that you don't need, like temporary files and items in your Recycle Bin.
If Storage Sense is turned on, you can select to automatically run Storage Sense Every day, Every week, Every month, or During low free disk space (default).
You can use Run Storage Sense now to free up drive space on demand.
Reference:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-US/Windows/Experience/Storage-FileManagement/manage-drive-space-with-storage-sense
Here's How:
1 Open Settings (Win+I).
2 Click/tap on System on the left side, and click/tap on Storage on the right side. (see screenshot...
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