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Author: Sergey Tkachenko
Cumulative Updates for Windows 10, July 9, 2019
Microsoft is releasing a set of cumulative updates for supported Windows 10 versions. The updates do not add new features to the OS, instead they fix various security and reliability issues and add improvements to existing features.
Disable Send and Receive MMS Attachments in Your Phone app
How to disable Send and Receive MMS Attachments in Your Phone app in Windows 10
Windows 10 comes with a special app, Your Phone, that allows pairing your Android or iOS smartphone with your desktop computer and browse your phone data on the PC. In recent version of Your Phone app, you can send and receive images and GIFs, including Giphy, right from the Your Phone app when connected to an Android phone. Here's how to enable or disable this feature.
Minimize Task Manager to Notification Area in Windows 10
Windows 8 and Windows 10 have a new Task Manager app. It looks completely different compared to Windows 7's Task Manager and has different features. It comes with a number of options that can be customized by the user. One of them allows minimizing the Task Manager to the system tray area and hide its taskbar button.
Disable Extension Recommendations in Firefox 68
How to Disable Extension Recommendations in Firefox 68 Add-ons Manager
Mozilla today released Firefox 68, a new version of the popular browser. One of its new features is extension recommendations which appear in the add-ons manager. Here's how to disable extension recommendations if you are not happy to see them.
Firefox 68 is out, here are the key changes
Mozilla is releasing a new version of their popular Firefox browser to the stable branch. Firefox 68 is out with focus on add-on management improvements. Let's see what is new in this release.
Microsoft discontinues Internet Games in XP/Vista/Windows 7, turns off servers
Microsoft has revealed that the company discontinues their classic Internet games which were first introduced in Windows Millennium Edition. The servers behind the set of games will become unavailable very soon.
Microsoft Edge Chromium Now Allows Switching Theme
Yet another new feature made its appearance in the Canary branch of Microsoft Edge Chromium. There is a new feature that allows switching between the dark and light themes in Edge independently from the Personalization > Colors page in Settings .
Turn On or Off Narrator Audio Cues in Windows 10
How to turn On or Off Narrator Audio Cues in Windows 10
As you may already know, Narrator is a screen-reading app built into Windows 10. Narrator lets users with vision issues to use PC and complete common tasks. Narrator plays a sound when you do things like perform a Narrator command or when suggestions are available. This is called "audio cues". We will review how to disable or enable this feature with either Settings, or a Registry tweak.
Change System Cooling Policy for Processor in Windows 10
How to change System Cooling Policy for Processor in Windows 10
In Windows 10, you can specify the System cooling policy setting for active or passive cooling. Starting with Windows 8, devices that have thermal management capabilities can expose these capabilities to the operating system with a special driver. A driver that has passive-cooling capabilities implements the PassiveCooling routine. A driver that has active-cooling capabilities implements the ActiveCooling routine. In response to changes in computer usage or environmental conditions, the operating system calls one (or possibly both) of these routines to manage thermal levels dynamically in the hardware platform.
