When you shut down your PC, Windows gives a bit of time to running applications to save their data before it force closes them. This ensures that no unsaved app data is lost and no app functions get corrupted due to force stopping in the middle of working.
However, if faster shutdown matters to you and you have the good habit of closing all apps and saving data before you shut down, then you can decrease this timer to speed up shutdown.
[mai mult...]You can add a shortcut of any application (.exe) to the context menu to access the app from anywhere by simply right-clicking an empty space and selecting the shortcut. For demonstration, I am going to add a Chrome browser shortcut to the context menu.
[mai mult...]Windows 11 has a new context menu that is small in size and has most of the options hidden behind the Show more options button that basically opens the classic context menu. I personally don’t like the new context menu as most of the time I have to hit the Show more options button anyway. Why make this a 2-click process when you can just open the old context menu on the first attempt?
[mai mult...]Several Windows apps and browsers such as Google Chrome have their own in-built DNS caches. These cache files are different than the DNS caches maintained by your operating system.
So apart from clearing the DNS caches for the operating system you also need to clear the DNS for Google Chrome explicitly.
Are you experiencing issues while connecting to websites and apps on Windows 11? The underlying cause of the problem can be the erroneous network configuration. You should start by wiping off the temporary files of Windows and delete the app cache.
[mai mult...]Verbose status messages are messages you see when Windows is starting or shutting down such as the “Preparing your desktop” message. Basically, it tells you exactly what is Windows doing currently which is causing the delay in startup/shutdown. By default, these messages are very limited and won’t give all the information.
If you are seeing long delays while shutting down or starting up, then you can turn on these verbose status messages to see exactly what is causing the delay and possibly fix the problem.
[mai mult...]When you start the PC, a screen comes before entering the password that goes away when you press any key. It serves no other purpose other than showing a beautiful picture and some extra info about it. Many people may find this screen an annoying extra step to access your PC. If you want to remove it to access the password screen directly, you can do so using the registry.
[mai mult...]Typing things manually into the command prompt all the time can be a pain. It would be much easier if, say, you could just open the command prompt pointing straight to a location by right-clicking in that location.
[mai mult...]Windows 11 has renamed the Windows 10 News and Interests feature into ‘Widgets’ and displays it as an icon on the taskbar, as shown below.
Windows 11 introduces a redesigned Snap Assist feature where you can hover over the maximize button to see a flyout containing four predefined Windows snap layouts.You can now access four predefined Windows snap layouts by hovering your mouse cursor over the maximize button in an open window, as shown below.
