Windows

Windows 11 lets you show one picture on the lock screen and a different picture on the desktop. The quickest route is Settings › Personalization, where Lock screen and Background…

Noise suppression in Windows 11 filters steady background sounds, such as fan hum, air conditioning, and keyboard clatter, out of your microphone signal before apps receive it. You turn it…

The Windows 11 Start menu already has a logout button: the Sign out option inside the account picture menu at the bottom left. Click your account picture in Start, then…

To add a note, open Start, search for Sticky Notes, and select the plus (+) button. Sticky Notes in Windows 11 is a built-in app that puts small, colored note…

Word wrap in Notepad on Windows 11 breaks long lines at the right edge of the window, so you read a paragraph without scrolling sideways. It changes only how the…

Energy saver in Windows 11 switches on by itself when your battery drops to a set percentage, and one setting controls that. To block Energy saver from starting on its…

Microsoft Defender can scan your PC from Command Prompt with MpCmdRun.exe, a command-line tool that is part of Windows 11 and drives the same antivirus engine as Windows Security. Open…

A battery limiter in Windows 11 is a laptop setting that stops charging at 80 percent instead of 100, which slows battery wear. Settings › System › Power & battery…

Photos you import from a camera in Windows 11 go to the Pictures folder by default, usually inside a subfolder named after the import date. File Explorer shows them in…

Adjusting display scaling settings in Windows 11 changes how large text, apps and icons look without changing your screen’s resolution. Open Settings › System › Display, pick a percentage from…

What to do when SmartScreen blocks an app you trust in Windows 11 comes down to three moves: select More info, check the Publisher name, and select Run anyway. If…

Windows Security in Windows 11 reports the state of your antivirus on its Virus & threat protection page. To check your virus protection, open Settings › Privacy & security ›…

To remove a download warning in Windows 11, open the file’s Properties window and tick Unblock. Right-click the file, select Properties, tick Unblock on the General tab, and select Apply.…

A Windows Hello passkey is a sign-in credential that lives on your PC and is approved with your face, fingerprint, or PIN instead of a password. To save one in…

BitLocker settings in Windows 11 sit in the BitLocker Drive Encryption window in Control Panel. BitLocker is the built-in feature that encrypts a drive so nobody can read its files…