Stop Auto Reopen of Programs after Restart in Windows 10

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One of the many small changes in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update is that the operating system can now automatically reopen programs that were running before shutdown or restart. If you shut down Windows 10 with some apps (e.g., Chrome browser, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word) open, some of them are relaunched at next startup, which is undesirable; to put it fairly, it can be annoying for many. How to disable this feature?Read more

Process Monitor “Unable to write PROCMON23.SYS” Enabling Boot Logging

Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity. It can also trace the entire boot process and save to a PML log file. When enabling the setting “Enable Boot Logging” from the Options menu in Process Monitor, the following error may pop up:Read more

How to Configure Controlled Folder Access to Stop “Unauthorized changes blocked” Notifications

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Windows 10 and 11 include a beneficial security feature named Controlled folder access, which is part of the Microsoft Defender Exploit Guard. You may have noticed the Unauthorized changes blocked notifications. Microsoft Defender’s Controlled folder access feature is the one behind those notifications. Controlled folder access helps you protect valuable data from malicious programs, such as ransomware.

This article explains how to configure CFA and prevent Unauthorized changes blocked notifications when running a program.

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Photos App Mouse Wheel Settings: Scroll to Zoom or View Prev/Next [Windows 10]

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When viewing a single photo in Windows Photo Viewer and Windows Picture and Fax Viewer (Windows 7), rotating the mouse scroll button used to zoom the image, and most people expected the same with new Photos app in Windows 10.

In early builds of Windows 10, the Photos app included the behavior of scrolling prev/next photos with the mouse wheel. Then in one of the interim builds, the functionality was changed, where mouse wheel started zooming. Some users were not happy with this inconsistency.Read more

Limit Windows Update Bandwidth for Background Downloads in Windows 10

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Windows 10 Fall Creators Update introduces a new delivery optimization setting wherein you can throttle the Windows Update background downloads. Windows 10 by default dynamically optimizes the amount of bandwidth used to download (and upload) Windows and App updates. You can see the report on the Windows Update Activity Monitor page.Read more