Dave W. Shanahan
Email: [email protected]
https://www.onmsft.com/author/davewinbeta-org
Twitter: @ahandsawhaven
Earlier today, Microsoft announced that more people will get access to see personalized news and interests in the Windows 10 Taskbar. While this is a great addition for some people, others might find this feature as an unneeded distraction. If you ... Read more
What browser you use and how it looks can be a very personal experience. Did you know you can customize Microsoft Edge with custom themes? If you didn't already know, you can change themes to light, dark, and system default. ... Read more
Microsoft Teams is a great collaboration and communication tool on Windows 10. However, sometimes you may find the need to block someone on Microsoft Teams. On Microsoft Teams, communication is usually locked down because who you can message or call ... Read more
Microsoft now has vertical tabs, which can help you browse faster in Microsoft Edge. This tabs feature first appeared back in October 2020 on Microsoft Edge Dev and Canary channels, but it's now generally available. If you use a large ... Read more
PowerToys has a lot of great utilities to help fix your workflow quickly. Interestingly, Windows 10 already comes with a built-in Snap Assist feature that lets you quickly snap the windows on your desktop so you can see all your ... Read more
PowerToys is such a handy utility that it's hard to pick which specific utility is the most useful for your productivity. Keyboard Manager, Image Resizer, and PowerRename are all great utilities by themselves, but discovering another PowerToys utility that you ... Read more
If you are using Windows 10 and are looking for free ways to record your screen, there are options available. There are three free ways to record your screen on Windows 10; using the Xbox Game Bar, using PowerPoint in ... Read more
Have you ever wanted the ability to rename files in bulk instantly on Windows 10? PowerToys has your back with PowerRename, another amazing utility offered by the recently updated PowerToys suite of Windows 10 tools. In addition to Image Resizer ... Read more
If you are already using PowerToys, you may already know of all of the helpful utilities available to make your life easier, including Keyboard Manager. Another bonus of PowerToys is the Image Resizer utility, which allows you to ability to ... Read more
Have you ever wanted to change keyboard shortcuts on Windows 10 to something else? In the past the process of remapping keys or keyboard shortcuts usually involved downloading a difficult-to-use third-party application. Now, the process is a a whole lot ... Read more
Are you ever in the middle of something on your Windows 10 PC and you are interrupted and have to log out or turn off your PC? Do you wish there was a way to pick up where you left ... Read more
There are several ways to lock your Windows 10 PC, but did you know that you do it with an onscreen shortcut you create? Creating a shortcut to lock your Windows 10 PC can come in handy if you want ... Read more
Your Phone is a Windows 10 app that allows you to see your Android and iOS phone messages and more on your PC. However, sometimes you might not want Your Phone to pop up automatically at startup. Here's a quick method ... Read more
Windows 10 has a lesser-known feature that allows you to save time and see all the items that you copy, cut, and paste on your PC called Clipboard history. Previously referred to as Cloud Clipboard, Clipboard history first appeared in ... Read more
Microsoft Teams is a great way to communicate with people at work. Recently, Teams has added a number of great functionalities, including the ability to respond to specific messages starting next month. When using Teams on Windows 10, you may ... Read more
If you are new to Microsoft Edge, here is a useful tip to help you automatically clear your browsing history every time you exit your browser. Here’s what you need to do. Launch Microsoft Edge Go to Edge settings (three dot ... Read more
Today, Intel officially unveiled the details on its 11th-gen Rocket Lake-S processors. led by the new flagship Core i9-11900K, with 8 cores, 16 threads, boosted clock speeds up to 5.3GHz, support for DDR4 RAM at 3,200MHz, a total of 20 ... Read more
Today, Microsoft acquired The Marsden Group, a leader in industrial technology innovation and rapid prototyping, for an undisclosed amount. Microsoft's acquisition is to help customers build more quickly vertical solutions using Microsoft Azure cloud, edge-computing, and AI services, in particular. ... Read more
Windows Terminal Preview 1.7 is here and it comes new features including Windowing improvements, JSON fragment extensions support, read-only panes, and more as detailed by a recent blog post by Kayla Cinnamon, Program Manager at Microsoft. You can install both ... Read more
No Man's Sky is getting its first content update allowing players to tame, breed, and bond with wild animals in the game. In an announcement on Xbox Wire, Hello Games, the development team behind No Man's Sky, announced that the ... Read more
In case you are looking for a webcam to use on your PC, you can use the Xbox Kinect as a webcam on Windows 10. Once you make your Kinect a webcam on Windows 10, you can use it for ... Read more