Windows 11

File Explorer copies files from a USB drive to a Windows 11 laptop. Small transfers usually finish in about a minute. To copy files from a USB drive to your…

Windows Hello, the face, fingerprint and PIN sign-in system, can brighten your screen for a moment when the room is too dark for it to see your face. This tutorial…

Changing the Microsoft Store download path in Windows 11 means telling Windows to install new Store apps and games on a different drive than C:. The quickest way is Settings…

Nearby sharing in Windows 11 lets you share across devices by sending files, photos and web links from one PC to another. It works over Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, with no…

AppData is a hidden folder at C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData that stores app settings, caches and temporary files for your account. To open its Local subfolder, press Windows key + R, type %localappdata%,…

You can reset every default app in Windows 11 back to Microsoft’s recommended choices from one button in Settings. Open Settings › Apps › Default apps, scroll to the bottom…

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…