Microsoft Tips, Tricks & Info
2024MAY28
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How to show file extensions in Windows 11
By default, Windows 11 hides file extensions, which can lead to confusion and lost productivity. Thankfully, revealing file extensions in Windows 11 is a straightforward process.
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How to Delete Old Windows Update Files
Windows Update is now almost entirely automated, relying on active hours, customizable restarts, and manual pauses to give users more control. But there is still one part of Windows Update that needs your attention: the old files that are left behind, which otherwise take up a lot of space.
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How does Windows Recall work in Windows 11? We explain.
On Windows 11, the Windows Recall feature uses AI to track everything you do on your computer and makes the content searchable with simply natural language queries. It works like a photography memory, allowing you to scroll back in time to find files, folders, images, apps, messages, text, and more.
Further reading:
- 5 Reasons why you should (and shouldn't) use Windows Recall on Windows 11 - windowscentral.com
- Windows Recall could solve my biggest problem in tech - pcworld.com
- Retrace Your Steps with Recall - support.microsoft.com
- New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC - arstechnica.com
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Microsoft is turning Windows Copilot into a regular app - and here's why you'll like it
Copilot for Windows is going through a redesign to make Microsoft's AI assistant easier to access and use. Currently available through a sidebar panel, Copilot will soon become a regular resizable and movable Windows app, Microsoft revealed in a blog post on Wednesday.
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Microsoft Build 2024: everything announced
Microsoft Copilot expands with autonomous agents and adds AI to your Windows clipboard.
Further reading:
- Microsoft Build 2024 recap: Copilot AI, Surface laptops, Windows 11, and more - laptopmag.com
- What are Copilot+ PCs? Microsoft's new era of AI PCs explained - laptopmag.com
- Microsoft Surface event: the 6 biggest announcements - theverge.com
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Troubleshooting guide for printing on Windows
If you’re facing a very real printer issue right now, we’ve put together this handy guide to help you identify and fix the problem. Let's cut through the confusion and get your printer back to work!
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9 Ways to Make Google Chrome Safer and More Private
It only takes a few clicks to reduce Google Chrome's tracking and guard your privacy.
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Track your stuff: How Google's new Find My Device network works
If your headphones, keys, luggage and Android phone are constantly going missing, then there's a new Google feature that you may find helpful. Find My Device, a new network for tracking devices similar to Apple's Find My network, lets you track down compatible devices without an active internet connection.
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Google Messages users are getting spam-like encrypted RCS messages
Encrypted spam seems to have spiked this past week.
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Mobile industry is quietly preparing for the biggest change to your smartphone in a decade — iSIM will hasten the end of SIM cards and allow networks to preload plans on devices
10 million iSIMs are expected in the next two years.
