In Windows 11 22H2 and up, when you double-click “Devices and Printers” from the classic Control Panel, it redirects you to the Settings → Bluetooth & devices page. You may wonder how to access the classic Device and Printers Control Panel applet.Read more
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Can’t Set “Windows Spotlight” as Desktop Background in Windows 11
When you select “Windows Spotlight” from the list of background choices in the Personalization page in Windows 11 Settings, the default choice is immediately reset to “Picture”. This problem occurs if you’ve turned off background apps globally.Read more
Fix: Time Zone Settings Grayed out in Windows 11
When you open the Date & time settings to change the time zone, the Time zone settings may be fully grayed out or missing on your Windows 11 computer. Let’s see how to resolve the issue.Read more
Fix: Windows Update Missing from Settings in Windows 10/11
If the Windows Update option (and the “Check for Updates” button) is missing in Settings, it may be due to a group policy or registry-based policy setting.
Despite this issue, you’re able to install updates manually by downloading the .msu package from the Microsoft Update Catalog.Read more
No Internet after Installing Windows Updates [Windows 10]
After installing a Windows Update — be it a Cumulative Update, Feature Update, or a driver update, internet access may get broken in some configurations. To name a few, the Quality Updates KB4556799, KB4023057, KB4495620, and the 20H2 Feature Update broke network connectivity on some devices. This article provides some troubleshooting steps to restore internet … Read more
“Users must enter a user name and password” option missing
When you open the User Accounts dialog by running control userpasswords2
or netplwiz.exe
to configure automatic login to your user account, the Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer option may be missing in that dialog.
As a result, you’re unable to configure auto-login to your user account. This post tells you how to bring back the option in Windows 10 or 11.Read more
How to Free Up Gigabytes of Disk Space in Windows
Windows 10 updates, especially the feature updates, consume enormous disk space as Windows stores the older copies in case you want to roll back to the previous version. Hard disk drives have become cheaper and affordable nowadays. A 1 TB SATA HDD costs less than $50. But, if you’re using an old, low-capacity hard drive from an old computer and want to free up disk space, this article tells you how to do that.
After installing a feature update, Windows 10 automatically cleans up the previous Windows installation files (Windows.old) after ten days. However, there are some other ways with which you can free up disk space in Windows. Let’s see some of the options.Read more
Windows 10 Desktop Background Slideshow Not Seeing Subfolders
The new Settings interface in Windows 10 doesn’t allow selecting multiple files at once as the desktop slideshow. You can only select one folder at a time. Also, the images in the subfolders are not utilized for the slideshow.Read more
Fix: Start Menu Cortana Search Not Finding Apps – Search Results Blank
When you use Cortana search to find an installed program, the program may not appear in Start menu search results although the shortcut exists in the Start menu folder. For example, with Word 2016 installed and its shortcut present in the Start menu folder, when you type in “word”, the search results will display WordPad … Read more
“Show Most Used Apps” Setting Greyed out in Personalize
The “Show most used apps” toggle switch may be grayed out on the Personalization → Start page in Windows 10 or 11. This is due to a Privacy setting that turns off the ability to track recent programs.Read more