Windows

Find my device shows where your Windows 11 laptop last connected to the internet. It is a Microsoft account feature that saves the laptop’s location and shows it on a…

Windows 11 has a new Accessibility setting called Screen tint. You can also use Color filters (Settings › Accessibility › Color filters), which recolour everything on screen, and Night light…

You can change what pressing the physical power button does (shut down, sleep, hibernate, turn off the display, or nothing) in Settings, in under a minute. Go to Settings ›…

You get the Windows 11 25H2 update from Settings › Windows Update. If your PC already runs version 24H2, 25H2 installs as a small update that needs one restart. If…

Windows 11 has no button labeled “Logout”. The logout button is called Sign out, and it sits in the menu that opens when you click your account name or picture…

A printer driver is the small program that lets Windows 11 talk to your printer. You can check its version in three places: Device Manager, PowerShell, or the Print Management…

Secure print keeps your document waiting in the printer until you type a PIN on the printer’s control panel. That way, nobody else can grab your pages from the tray.…

The machine inactivity limit locks a Windows 11 PC after a set number of seconds with no keyboard or mouse input. It is a single setting, and it affects every…

Desktop icons move on their own for one of two reasons. Either Auto arrange icons is turned on, or Windows 11 is changing your screen resolution or monitor layout. Turning…

The AppData Roaming folder is where Windows keeps settings and data that follow you between computers on the same network. The fastest way to open it is to press Win+R,…

Xbox Mode is a full-screen, console-style view in Windows 11 that can load every time you turn on your PC. To stop it, open Settings, go to Gaming, then Full…

Windows Update can replace a printer driver with its own copy, which sometimes breaks printing or removes features the maker’s driver includes. To stop this, turn off automatic driver downloads…