Windows Hello is a more personal, more secure way to get instant access to your Windows 11 devices using a PIN, facial recognition, or fingerprint. You’ll need to set up a PIN as part of setting up fingerprint or facial recognition sign-in, but you can also sign in with just your PIN.
These options help make it easier and safer to sign into your PC because your PIN is only associated with one device and it’s backed up for recovery with your Microsoft account.
You can set up facial recognition sign-in with your PC’s infrared camera or an external infrared camera.
If Windows Hello can’t always recognize your face (ex: with and without glasses, different lighting conditions, or face angles) while trying to unlock and sign in to your PC, then you may need to improve recognition for your face to help.
This tutorial will show you how to improve recognition for the Windows Hello facial recognition sign-in option for your account in Windows 11.
Windows Hello is a more personal, more secure way to get instant access to your Windows 11 devices using a PIN, facial recognition, or fingerprint. You’ll need to set up a PIN as part of setting up fingerprint or facial recognition sign-in, but you can also sign in with just your PIN.
These options help make it easier and safer to sign into your PC because your PIN is only associated with one device and it’s backed up for recovery with your Microsoft account.
You can set up facial recognition sign-in with your PC’s infrared camera or an external infrared camera.
This tutorial will show you how to remove the Windows Hello facial recognition sign-in option from your account in Windows 11.
Windows Hello is a more personal, more secure way to get instant access to your Windows 11 devices using a PIN, facial recognition, or fingerprint. You’ll need to set up a PIN as part of setting up fingerprint or facial recognition sign-in, but you can also sign in with just your PIN.
These options help make it easier and safer to sign into your PC because your PIN is only associated with one device and it’s backed up for recovery with your Microsoft account.
You can set up facial recognition sign-in with your PC’s infrared camera or an external infrared camera.
This tutorial will show you how to set up the Windows Hello facial recognition sign-in option for your account in Windows 11.
You can change your desktop background in Windows 11 to be a picture, solid color, a slideshow, or Spotlight collection.
Windows keeps the last 5 recent images referenced with full path in the registry as your desktop background wallpaper history.
This tutorial will show you how to delete all or specific recent images from desktop background wallpaper history for your account in Windows 11.
Find My Device is a feature that can help you locate your Windows 11 device if it’s lost or stolen. To use this feature, sign in to your device with a Microsoft account and make sure you’re an administrator on it. This feature works when location services is turned on for your device, even if other users on the device have turned off location settings for their apps. Any time you attempt to locate the device online at Microsoft, users using the device will see a notification in the notification area.
If you have Find My Device turned on, your device will automatically update its location periodically while connected to the Internet.
If needed, you can use Find My Device to remotely lock your Windows device. Remotely locking your Windows device will log out any active users and disable sign in for local users (standard users). Administrators with permissions will still have access, but unauthorized access will be blocked. Your device will be locked and location tracking services will be enabled. It will be required to have an administrator sign in to the remotely locked device first before any standard users are able to sign in.
Once your device is locked, you can reset your password if needed for added security.
This tutorial will show you how to use Find My Device to remotely lock your Windows 10 or Windows 11 device.
Find My Device is a feature that can help you locate your Windows 11 device if it’s lost or stolen. To use this feature, sign in to your device with a Microsoft account and make sure you’re an administrator on it. This feature works when location services is turned on for your device, even if other users on the device have turned off location settings for their apps. Any time you attempt to locate the device online at Microsoft, users using the device will see a notification in the notification area.
If you have Find My Device turned on, your device will automatically update its location periodically while connected to the Internet.
This tutorial will show you how to use Find My Device to see the last known location of your Windows 10 or Windows 11 device.
Find My Device is a feature that can help you locate your Windows 11 device if it’s lost or stolen. To use this feature, sign in to your device with a Microsoft account and make sure you’re an administrator on it. This feature works when location services is turned on for your device, even if other users on the device have turned off location settings for their apps. Any time you attempt to locate the device online at Microsoft, users using the device will see a notification in the notification area.
If you have Find My Device turned on, your device will automatically update its location periodically while connected to the Internet.
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off Find My Device to see the last known location of your Windows 11 device from your Microsoft account online.
Shared Experiences allows the use of cross-device experiences (continue experiences) like Nearby Sharing and Share Across Devices.
You can disable the Continue experiences on this device policy so the Windows device is not discoverable by other devices, and cannot participate in cross-device experiences.
This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable Shared Experiences for all users in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
Share across devices (aka: “Project Rome“, “Shared Experiences”, and “Cross Device Experiences”) allows you to continue app experiences on other devices connected to your account.
You can select to share app experiences on My devices only or with Everyone nearby.
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off sharing across devices for your account in Windows 11.
You can press the Alt + Tab or Ctrl + Alt + Tab keys to switch between open windows in Windows 11.
Pressing Alt+Tab will show open windows as thumbnails by default.
You can also press and hold the right Alt key, press and release the left Alt key, and press Tab to have Alt+Tab show open windows as classic icons instead of thumbnails.
This tutorial will show you how to always show classic icons or thumbnails on Alt+Tab by default for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
You can press the Alt + Tab or Ctrl + Alt + Tab keys to switch between open windows in Windows 11.
You can select Alt+Tab to show:
This tutorial will show you how to change what shows when pressing ALT+TAB to switch between open windows and tabs in Microsoft Edge for your account in Windows 11.
You can press the Alt + Tab or Ctrl + Alt + Tab keys to switch between open windows in Windows 11.
Starting with Windows 11 build 22526, Microsoft is experimenting with showing ALT + TAB as windowed by default instead of full screen for some.
This tutorial will show you how to change the Alt+Tab experience to show as windowed or full screen for all users in Windows 11.
A shortcut is a link to an item (such as a file, folder, or app) on your PC. You can create shortcuts and then place them in a convenient location, such as on the desktop, so you can easily access the item that the shortcut links to. Shortcut files (.lnk) can be distinguished from the source target by the arrow that appears overlayed on the shortcut’s icon.
This tutorial will show you how to remove the shortcut arrow overlay on all shortcut icons for all users in Windows 11.
Windows Update keeps Windows 11 updated by automatically downloading and installing the latest updates, drivers, and hotfixes released by Microsoft.
The TargetReleaseVersion policy allows you to specify which feature update version of Windows 11 you would like your computer to move to and/or stay on until the version reaches end of service or you reconfigure this policy.
If you don’t update this policy before the device reaches end of service, the device will automatically be updated once it is 60 days past end of service for its version.
If you specify a TargetReleaseVersion the same as the current version, Windows 11 will stay on this version until it reaches end of service.
If you specify a TargetReleaseVersion higher than the current version, Windows 11 will directly update only to the specified version even if a higher version is available.
This tutorial will show you how to specify a TargetReleaseVersion version of Windows 11 you want to move to or stay on in Windows Update until it reaches end of service in Windows 11 Pro, Enterprise, or Education.
Windows Update keeps Windows 11 updated by automatically downloading and installing the latest updates, drivers, and hotfixes released by Microsoft.
Sometimes you may have an issue with Windows Update such as not being able to download or install updates, error messages, not being able to search for new updates, etc. These kind of issues can occur when the Windows Update database or components are corrupted, one or more services related to Windows Update are not running, etc.
Resetting the Windows Update components can usually solve these types of issues.
Microsoft can offer you suggestions throughout Settings. This content comes in a variety of forms, and can help you discover new features within Settings, or suggest new content and apps you may find interesting.
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off show suggested content in the Settings app for your account in Windows 11.
Miracast is a wireless technology your PC, laptop, or tablet can use to project your screen to wireless TVs, projectors, and streaming media players that also support Miracast. You can use this to share what you’re doing on your PC, present a slide show, or even play your favorite game on a larger screen.
You will see a control banner at the top of your screen when you are connected to a wireless display. The banner keeps you informed of the state of your connection, allows you to quick disconnect or reconnect to the same sink and allows you to tune the connection based on what you are doing. This tuning is done via the settings gear, which optimizes the screen to screen latency based on one of the three scenarios:
By default, all connections start off in working mode.
This tutorial will show you how to wirelessly connect your Windows 11 PC to a TV, projector, another PC, or other kind of external display that supports Miracast.
Some websites may have their content available in different languages. Windows can share information about your preferred language list with websites so that they can have the opportunity to respect your language preferences without you having to independently set them for each site.
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off website access to the language list for your account in Windows 11.
Windows generates a unique advertising ID for each user on a device, which app developers and advertising networks can then use for their own purposes, including providing more relevant advertising in apps. When the advertising ID is enabled, apps can access and use it in much the same way that websites can access and use a unique identifier stored in a cookie. Thus, app developers (and the advertising networks they work with) can associate personal data they collect about you with your advertising ID and use that personal data to provide more relevant advertising and other personalized experiences across their apps.
The advertising ID setting applies to Windows apps using the Windows advertising identifier. The advertising ID setting does not apply to other methods of interest-based advertising delivered by Microsoft or third parties, such as cookies used to provide interest-based display ads on websites. Third-party products accessed through or installed on Windows may also deliver other forms of interest-based advertising subject to their own privacy policies. Microsoft delivers other forms of interest-based ads in certain Microsoft products, both directly and by partnering with third-party ad providers.
This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable letting apps use advertising ID for relevant ads for your account or all users in Windows 11.
App launch tracking allows Windows to personalize your Start menu based on the apps that you launch. This allows you to quickly have access to your list of most-used apps both in the Start menu and when you search your device.
This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable app launch tracking for your account, all users, or specific users in Windows 11.