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Instant Hotspot in Windows 11 lets your PC use your phone’s mobile data without you setting up Wi-Fi by hand. It works through the Phone Link app, which links your…

Windows 11 performance optimization speeds up a sluggish computer by clearing out junk files, stopping hidden background apps, and turning off extra startup programs. A slow PC often drags because…

Energy Saver in Microsoft Edge is a built-in power feature. When your laptop battery drops to 15 percent, Edge starts putting idle tabs to sleep. Sleeping stops background activity on…

Energy saver in Microsoft Edge is a built-in setting that puts background tabs to sleep and trims other background activity. It lowers your computer’s power use, and it can keep…

Sleeping tabs in Microsoft Edge put idle tabs into a low-resource state after a set period of inactivity. This stops pages you are not using from tying up memory and…

Windows 11 includes built-in tools, mainly Microsoft Defender Antivirus (in the Windows Security app) and Windows Hello, that protect your PC from viruses, malware, and hackers. Most of them are…

Fade inactive tabs is a visual feature in Microsoft Edge. It dims the tabs that Edge has put to sleep, so you can see at a glance which pages are…

The Always keep these sites active list in Microsoft Edge stops specific web pages from going to sleep when you use Sleeping Tabs. Sleeping Tabs is a memory-saving feature that…

Sleeping tabs in Microsoft Edge pause background web pages after a set period of inactivity (30 minutes in the setup this guide describes) to save memory and battery. A sleeping…

Copilot memory in Microsoft Edge is a browser feature that saves your past chats and web searches so it can personalize its answers. You can stop it with a few…

Microsoft Copilot in Microsoft Edge is a built-in AI tool that answers questions using your browsing activity. By default it can read your current webpage, your browser history, and your…

Microsoft Edge security features are built-in tools that block dangerous websites, stop malware downloads, and protect your personal data while you browse. Microsoft Defender SmartScreen (called Windows Defender SmartScreen in…

Pinned Android apps on your Windows taskbar are shortcuts created by the Phone Link app. They let you open programs from your phone straight from your desktop. Removing one takes…

Pinning an Android app to your Windows 11 taskbar or Start menu lets you open it from the desktop without picking up your phone. The feature relies on the Phone…

Phone Link Recent Apps is a feature in Windows 11 version 22H2 and later. It shows icons for the apps you recently used on your phone in the notification area…