When adding a new user account in Windows 11, a profile for the account is automatically created when the user signs in to the new account for the first time. A user profile is a collection of settings that make the computer look and work the way you want it to for a user account. It is stored in … Read more
First, open the Start Menu and search for “Registry” to find and open the “Registry Editor.” Next, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft in the left sidebar. Right-click on a blank space in the “Microsoft” folder and click New > Key. Name the subfolder “Edge.” Now, in the “Edge” subfolder you just created, right-click and select New > DWORD. Name … Read more
There are two methods for this. Either method disables any HID compliant touch screens the device may have. This tricks windows into using the “desktop” icon spacing, rather than the more touch friendly spacing. Via Powershell Via Device Manager Look for the “HID-compliant touch screen” device under “Human Interface Devices and disable it. The changes … Read more
Running these in order is a good place to start. DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /AnalyzeComponentStore DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase sfc /scannow
See if the computer is activated.
First, set the local security policy You’ll need to make sure the local security policy for network adapters is set to private, rather than public or not configured. The steps below describe how to set that policy against unidentified networks. But you should also check any other listed networks to avoid strange errors when configuring WinRM. From the start menu, … Read more
From an administrative command prompt To poll an ntp server for time: NTP GPO details explained So what all these settings mean. Configuring Windows NTP Client: Enabled NtpServer: Here you specify which NtpServers to use seperated by a space but also with a special NTP flag. I decided to use the public ntp.org pools:0.se.pool.ntp.org,0x1 1.se.pool.ntp.org,0x1 2.se.pool.ntp.org,0x1 … Read more
By default, programs’ title bars in Windows 10 are white. You can change the color of the active program window, but what about the title bars on inactive windows? No worries. There’s an easy registry tweak to solve that. Here’s what a normal background window looks like in Windows 10, with no color: When we’re done, it’ll … Read more