Tech Writer, IT Professional
Richard is a writer at Geek Rewind who turns complex IT tasks into clear, step-by-step guides. He draws on years of hands-on experience in system administration and enterprise IT operations, focusing on Windows, Linux and WordPress: the problems people actually run into, and the fixes that work. His server and WordPress guides come from systems he runs himself. Richard builds and maintains the platform behind Geek Rewind, from its Ubuntu servers and Nginx configuration to its custom WordPress plugins. Many new tutorials start with readers' questions, and he's always glad to answer them in the comments.
Writes about: Windows 11, Ubuntu Linux, CMS, Apps and Browsers
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Dynamic Lock in Windows 11 locks your PC when you walk away with your phone. It measures the Bluetooth signal strength of a paired phone. When the signal stays weak…
Screen timeout settings in Windows 11 control how many minutes pass before your monitor turns off or your computer goes to sleep. These are two separate timers. The screen can…
Speech synthesis speed in Windows 11 can be set for each voice, so every language reads at its own pace. Speech synthesis, also called text-to-speech, is the feature that turns…
Advanced diagnostic data upload schedules in Windows 11 let you control when your computer sends system error reports and usage data to Microsoft. By default, the Connected User Experiences and…
The speech synthesis rate in Windows 11 controls how fast the built-in text-to-speech voice reads words aloud. Text-to-speech is a feature that turns on-screen text into spoken audio. A slower…
The mouse indicator activation method in Windows 11 controls how you call up the highlight that shows where your pointer is. You can choose a single press or a double…
Speech settings in Windows 11 let you turn off automatic punctuation so you can speak every symbol out loud for precise writing. By default, Windows 11 automatically inserts periods and…
Custom speech recognition profiles in Windows 11 help your PC learn your voice, accent and vocabulary, so dictation produces fewer typing errors. A profile is the set of voice data…
Folder views in Windows 11 reset themselves because Windows assigns a default template to each folder based on what it holds, such as Documents or Pictures. File Explorer remembers a…
Kernel isolation memory integrity blocks malicious software from slipping bad code into the core parts of Windows 11 (and Windows 10, which reached end of support on October 14, 2025).…
Windows 11 reopens closed apps after a reboot because a built-in feature saves your open programs during shutdown and launches them again when you sign back in. This behavior is…
Live captions in Windows 11 turn spoken audio into on-screen text, which helps you follow videos, podcasts, and meetings. You can change how that text looks by adjusting the font…
Notification banners are the alerts that slide in at the bottom right of your screen when an app, a website or Windows itself has something to tell you. In Windows…
Windows 11 can reopen the apps that were running before a restart, such as browser windows, documents and media players. It saves the state of those apps when you shut…
Automatic Speech Recognition data in Windows 11 includes voice recordings and text dictionaries that the operating system saves to learn your voice commands and improve dictation accuracy. Clearing this stored…
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