user control

With an ongoing evolution in the features of Windows 11, Microsoft has sparked discussions within the community regarding its latest addition: the Recall feature, which is part of the Windows 11 version 24H2. This functionality, initially expected to be controversial due to privacy concerns, has...

In what may be seen as a significant step for Windows 11 users, Microsoft has announced that its controversial Recall feature will soon return for beta testing. This tool was initially touted as a “photographic memory” for your PC when it was supposed to launch alongside the first Copilot+ PCs...

Windows users often find themselves frustrated with the frequency and timing of update prompts that can appear unexpectedly. Complaints about these updates usually revolve around two major points: their overwhelming number and the fact that they often require a system restart at inconvenient...

I've heard that organising the Start menu in 11 is not possible. (It became pretty convoluted in 10). Is this true? I like ( or even need) to organise programme links, grouped according to purpose ( graphics, Office, internet, etc,) because I have lots of useful little programmes, many of which...

Find out how Cortana uses your personal data to personalize your experiences and assistance, and how to control which data is collected. Continue reading...

Learn how to locate and manage your app permissions on Windows devices. Some apps or games need specific permissions to work properly. Continue reading...

My PERSONAL Win8.3 PC has always requested a PW to login. It was just a local PW. Today, we lost power for a little while, then when it came back on and I rebooted, my PW didn't work. Windows told me I have to use my Windows live PW. It also sent a confirmation to the Windows...

Some of my settings in settings(the program) have the sentence "Some of these..... by your organization" and my laptop is personal. I tried many tutorial like enable "Alow Telemetry" then disable it again, it did work for the Diagnostics and Feedback settings but not work for the Clipboard one...

So, this is something that took me hours to figure out because it's so unbelievable. I use a game trainer program that is blocked from executing in an AppData temp folder because it uses code-injecting behaviour associated with malware. Usually, I just have to disable my AV program and Windows...

We can hardly believe it’s been about one year since we launched the new Microsoft Edge – and what a year it’s been! It’s safe to say that a lot has changed since our launch in January 2020, but one thing that remains constant is our commitment to our users. We’re all more dependent on the web...

Today, we’re excited to announce the “first-look” rollout of the Storage Access API in our Canary and Dev channels. For developers, this API allows them to determine whether their access to browser-based storage is restricted by a user’s privacy settings and to request storage access from users...

I have got a new notebook with a pre-installed Win10 Home v1803. This Win10 version updates itself automatically every week.. But I don't want this: I want to decide when I want to update Win10. As far as I read this is only possible from Win10 v1903 onwards. So I decide a one-time update to...

UPDATE May 22nd 2019: Microsoft has now made the Windows 10 May 2019 Update available via their media creation tool with which you can create your own iso/USB install media. Link Removed Starting next week via release preview the Windows 10 May update will start to roll out. Windows 10 May...

My son and I share a PC. Everything I have read said to install this app, run this thing, gpedit, etc blah blah blah. Did Windows 10 REMOVE the most BASIC of basic user settings?!Link Removed ovo.fyi/temp-mail ovo.fyi/10-minute-mail I JUST want to stop my son from installing $h%! onto my PC...

For a long time, desktop PC users have been able to configure Win32 apps to start at startup or user log-in. This has also been possible for Desktop Bridge apps since the Windows 10 Anniversary Update (v10.0.14393.0). We’ve now extended this feature to allow regular Universal Windows Apps to...

I left GTA V to download overnight last night, but my computer restarted during the download, preventing the game from finishing the download. I'm now looking for a way to turn this off. I still want the updates to download automatically, but I don't want them to install and restart my computer...

European authorities raise fresh concerns over Windows 10 data collection (via neowin.net) A few weeks ago, Microsoft announced changes to Windows 10 to offer users greater control over how it collects data about them from its devices and services. Among the changes were a new web privacy...

Starting with the most recent Windows Insider Preview release (build 14.14342), Web Notifications are enabled by default in Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 PCs and tablets. This feature will be available to all Microsoft Edge customers in EdgeHTML 14, coming this summer with the Windows 10...

I personally need to generate file hashes quite a bit for verifying file integrity as well as analyzing malware samples. I really wanted to have code that I had complete control over so I wrote a short powershell script and some minor registry editing to set this up. Registry Change If you...

I have a relatively new laptop and am setting it up. I created one local administration account and one local standard account for my one of my Laptops. However, when i log in to my local standard account I am prompted by UAC asking if windows command processor can make changes to my PC. I have...