At the edge of tweaking
Advertisement
You can add Open in Windows Terminal as Administrator to Context menu in Windows 10 File Explorer, so this entry will allow you to open the app elevated from the right-click menu in the current folder.
When you have Windows Terminal installed, it add the Open in Windows Terminal entry to the right-click menu of folders in File Explorer. In addition, you can add a new administrative menu command, so you can have the app open in the folder of your choice running elevated.
You can enable or disable Automatic HTTPS for URLs in Microsoft Edge. The browser now includes a special option to control this behavior. There is a new flag that adds the Automatically switch to more secure connections with Automatic HTTPS setting, so you can turn it on/off or further configure it under Settings > Privacy, search, and services.
Microsoft has done a useful change to Device Manager tool which make it easier to see what hardware is using which drivers. A new option in the View menu allows you to arrange devices by the drivers they use.
Yet another new feature found its path to Microsoft Edge. Currently available to a small select group of Insiders, it allows the user to search for similar images on Bing right from the context menu of an image on the open page. The result will appear in the sidebar. As you could guess, Edge uses Bing when searching for similar images.
Here's how you can make Microsoft Edge remember the pinned state for Downloads, Favorites, Collections and History pop-up flyouts.
Recently, Microsoft introduced the pop-up flyouts for Favorites, Collections, Downloads and History in the Edge app. They now appear as menus. Edge allows pinning them, so they will remain visible all the time. There only problem that the browser didn't remember the pinned state for flyouts, so they used to disappear after you restart Edge. This issues has been finally addressed.
Microsoft released Edge 92.0.873.1 to Insiders in the Dev channel. It is the first build of the browser based on Chromium 92. The former version 91 branch is now in the Beta channel. Today's release includes a couple of new features, but they are minor and won't be visible to a causal user. There are also general improvements and minor fixes.
Following Canary builds, Microsoft Edge Dev is now available to Android users. From now, mobile Edge users can choose from stable, Dev and Canary releases in order to try the most recent changes in the browser.
Microsoft released a new stable version of their PowerToys suite. PowerToys 0.37, while doesn't include the Video Conference Mute tool yet, comes with various fixes and enhancements made to the included apps.
Microsoft today released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21370 to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. While it doesn't include a lot of changes, it finally groups plenty of Bluetooth endpoints into one device and detects the correct endpoint automatically.
Yet another release of the excellent browser, Vivaldi. Version 3.8 of the one and the only follower of the classic Opera 12 ideas brings more control on bookmarks to your hands, and also features great improvements in the privacy area. This version doesn't include Google's FLoC, and allows you to prevent cookie content popups from appearing on sites you visit.
