Tutorials

Turn off web results in Start menu search by changing one setting in Settings. Web results are Bing suggestions that appear next to your apps, files and settings when you…

BitLocker decryption removes the encryption from a drive, so Windows reads and writes its files as plain data again. On Windows 11 Pro, Enterprise and Education, the quickest way to…

File Explorer settings in Windows 11 mostly live in the classic File Explorer Options dialog, not in the Settings app (the window you open with Win+I). To find File Explorer…

To make Microsoft Edge ask before it closes a window that has several tabs open, go to Settings and more > Settings › Accessibility. Then turn on Ask before closing…

To mute a tab in Microsoft Edge, select the speaker icon on the noisy tab, or press Ctrl+M while that tab is active. Select the icon or press the shortcut…

The display turn-off time in Windows 11 controls how long the screen stays on after your last keystroke or mouse movement. To shorten it, open Settings › System › Power…

To customize typing speed in Windows 11, open Keyboard Properties and move the Repeat delay and Repeat rate sliders on the Speed tab. Both sliders control how a held-down key…

The Clock app in Windows 11 includes a Timer that counts down from any length of time you choose and plays an alert when it reaches zero. To set one,…

Click the notification to open its full message. The banner only shows a short preview, so the app that sent it has to show the rest. When a message says…

BitLocker can encrypt the system drive of a Windows 11 PC that has no TPM, but only if you allow a password or USB startup key in its place. A…

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…

Running PHP scripts with Apache on Ubuntu 26.04 takes three moves. Install Apache’s PHP module with sudo apt install php libapache2-mod-php, restart Apache, and put a .php file in /var/www/html.…