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Previous Versions in Windows 11 lets you restore a file to an earlier saved copy, so you can undo a bad edit, an accidental overwrite, or a corrupted save. To…

Windows 11 Search can now remove individual entries from the view that appears before you type anything, but only in Insider preview builds. In Windows Insider build 26340.9843, released to…

Windows 11 now lets you allow or deny camera, microphone, and location access for each desktop app individually, instead of through one device-wide switch. The feature is only in Windows…

Shared Microsoft 365 Family cloud storage now appears in Windows 11 Settings, under Settings › Accounts › Cloud storage. It shows how much storage your whole Microsoft 365 Family subscription…

Locking desktop icons in place in Windows 11 means stopping Windows from shuffling them into new positions. The quickest way is to right-click the desktop, open View, and turn off…

Credential Manager is the Windows 11 tool that stores the user names and passwords for network shares, mapped drives, Remote Desktop connections and some apps. You open it from Start…

Turning off Network protection in Microsoft Defender removes the block on connections to malicious websites, IP addresses and domains for every app on your PC, not only Edge. Nothing in…

Your personal folders are in File Explorer, under This PC, in a section called Folders. Press Windows + E, click This PC in the left pane, and look for Desktop,…

The Windows Firewall log file is a plain text file named pfirewall.log that records which network connections Windows Defender Firewall allowed or blocked. It does not exist until you turn…

Ctrl + Shift + V pastes copied text into an app as plain text, with no fonts, colors, links, or sizes carried over from the source. Copy as usual with…

Connect the camera to your PC with a USB cable, and Windows copies its new pictures to a folder on your computer. The quickest way is to connect the camera…

OneDrive can slow down a Windows 11 PC when it uploads, downloads, or scans a large number of files in the background. The quickest test is to pause syncing for…

To tell your monitors apart, press Identify on the Display page. It flashes a large number on each screen for a few seconds, and you match that number to a…

Single-click to open items in File Explorer changes Windows 11 so that one click opens a file or folder instead of the default two. The setting lives in the File…

Accelerated App Launches in Windows 11 make Microsoft Edge open faster by using a launch speed-up built into Windows itself. Microsoft says most users see a 15% improvement in launch…