Sergey Tkachenko, Author at Winaero

Enable or Disable Reveal Password Button in Microsoft Edge

How to Enable or Disable Reveal Password Button in Microsoft Edge

Windows 10 includes a password reveal button. If you have entered your password but are not sure if you entered it correctly, you can click this button with the eye icon at the end of the password text field to see the typed password. Edge, Microsoft's latest Chromium-based browser also includes that button. Starting with the Canary release 87.0.666.0 and higher, you can turn enable or disable the Reveal password button when entering passwords, independently from the OS.

Change Screen DPI Scaling in Xubuntu

How to Change Screen DPI Scaling in Xubuntu

If you are running Xubuntu with a modern HiDPI display, you may want to adjust the DPI scaling level to make everything look bigger on the screen. You may already notice that the only option that the Xfce desktop environment offers is scaling for fonts. This is usually not enough, as the other controls remain downscaled and tiny.

A bug in Windows 10 version 2004 prevents cookies and logins from being saved

New reports indicate that some users have issues with Windows 10 2004 and 20H2 successor. They says that cookies or login data fails to be saved, especially with the Chrome browser. As one user figured out, it is due to the S4U task "TASK_LOGON_S4U" in the Task Scheduler.

PowerToys 0.23.2 released with fixes

Microsoft has released a maintenance update for the stable version of the PowerToys suite. Also, the company has announced the conference muting tool is coming to the next stable PowerToys version, which is 0.24. Today's release, version 0.23.2, only comes with bugfixes and general improvements.

Update from WSL to WSL 2 in Windows 10

How to Update from WSL to WSL 2 in Windows 10

Microsoft has ported WSL 2 to Windows 10 version 1909, and version 1903. Initially, it was exclusively available in Windows 10 version 2004. Now users who have installed two older releases of the OS can upgrade Windows Subsystem for Linux to the latest generation and get benefits from using it.

PowerToys to get a new tool, Paste as plain text

Microsoft is planning to implement a new addition to its Windows PowerShell app suite. The upcoming tool will add the ability to paste the clipboard contents as plain text without formatting.

Microsoft Edge is getting Price Comparison in Collections, New Tab Page improvements, and more

Microsoft Edge is getting a price comparison feature inside Collections. Microsoft has announced a bunch of new features that are coming to the browser. The first come to the Dev channel, and expected to reach the stable branch by the end of this year.

Edge Stable 86.0.622.38 released, here are the changes

Microsoft today released Edge 86.0.622.38 to the stable branch, increasing the browser's major version to Edge 86. As you can expect, it comes with a huge list of new features that were not earlier available in the stable releases of the app.

Windows 10 will soon allow you to use Spotlight as Desktop background

Windows 10 features the Spotlight feature which allows you to have a random image on the Lock screen every time you see it. It downloads beautiful images from the Internet and shows them on your lock screen. So, every time you boot or lock Windows 10, you will see a new lovely image. The images are breathtakingly beautiful. One of the most anticipated Windows 10 features is the ability to use those stunning lockscreen images as your Desktop background. The good news is that Microsoft is currently working on it.

GIMP 2.10.22 released with AVIF AV1 format support

GIMP, the excellent image editing software available for Linux, Windows and Mac, today received a new update. Version 2.10.22 comes with improvements made to various image format support. This is the first release of the app that supports AVIF images, and can export and import images from AV1 files.