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Inking and Typing Personalization in Windows 11 builds a custom dictionary on your hard drive. It learns your writing style, spelling habits and favorite words. The setting lives at Settings…

Windows 11 shows suggestions and offers in several places: the Settings app, the Start menu, the lock screen, notifications, and the search panel. They recommend apps, websites, and features based…

Using your phone as a webcam gives you a sharper, brighter video feed for Zoom, Teams and other video calls without buying a separate camera. Windows 11 has a built-in…

A Windows Security virus scan hangs when the built-in antivirus stops moving forward while it checks files. The progress bar sits at the same spot, or the file count never…

Live Captions in Windows 11 turns spoken audio on your PC into text on the screen. It runs on your own hardware, so the audio is processed on the device…

Windows 11 keeps a record of every speaker, headphone set and microphone you have ever plugged in. Over time the audio list fills with old devices that are no longer…

Hiding or showing unplugged sound devices in Windows 11 controls whether your audio list includes speakers, microphones and headphones that are not connected right now. The Settings toggle for this…

Advanced crash dump logging in Windows 11 is a diagnostic setting that controls how much information Windows saves when the PC crashes with a blue screen. The saved file, called…

Core Isolation is a built-in Windows security feature that creates a safe, virtual memory zone to protect core system processes from harmful software. Inside it, a setting called Memory integrity…

Hiding or showing disabled sound devices in Windows 11 controls whether turned-off microphones and speakers appear in your audio lists. In Settings, the option sits on the Settings › Sound…

Speech recognition microphone gain in Windows 11 controls how loud your voice sounds to dictation and voice typing. Gain is the amount Windows amplifies the microphone signal before it tries…

The recommendations and offers in Windows 11 are controlled from two pages in the Settings app: Settings › Personalization › Start and Settings › System › Notifications. They are built-in…

Automatic region detection in Windows 11 fails when your internet connection, VPN, or Wi-Fi network sends mixed location signals to your computer. Windows tries to set your country and time…

Automatic time zone updates in Windows 11 change your computer clock to match your current location without any manual effort. The feature is the Set time zone automatically switch under…

Disabling Windows location services system-wide turns off the master switch that lets Windows 11 work out where you are. Most desktops and laptops have no built-in GPS chip. Windows instead…