Cortana is a virtual assistant bundled with Windows 10. Cortana appears as a search box or an icon on the taskbar and comes with tight integration with the Search feature in Windows 10. Signing in to Cortana with your Microsoft account allows it to keep track of what interests you, save your favorite places to its Notebook, collect notifications from other devices, and sync your data between all your devices with Cortana enabled. By default, Cortana is able to read your location data in Windows 10. If you are not happy with defaults, here is how to change permissions for Cortana.
Category: Windows 10
Change System Locale in Windows 10
As you may already know from previous articles, Windows 10 supports changing the display language using language packs. If you are working in a localized user account in Windows 10 which is your native language, you might be interested in learning what language is used for older apps that doesn't support Unicode and how to change it.
Windows 10 Build 18362.113 is out to Insiders with KB4497936
Microsoft released a new cumulative update to Window Insider program Slow, Fast and Release Preview rings. If you have installed build 18356.30 or a later, you will be offered to install this update. Here are the key changes.
Arch Linux for WSL now [unofficially] available on Microsoft Store
If you are using the WSL feature in Windows 10 (formerly known as Bash On Ubuntu), you definitely know that you can install and run multiple Linux distros from Microsoft Store. Arch Linux is yet another distro you can install starting today.
Windows 10 Sticky Notes 3.6 with Image Attachments and Multi-Desktop Support Released
Sticky Notes is a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app which is bundled with Windows 10 starting in "Anniversary Update" and comes with a number of features which the classic desktop app didn't have. Microsoft today released a new version of the app to the stable branch users that finally includes the image attachments feature along with other useful features.
Cumulative Updates for Windows 10 May 14, 2019
Microsoft is releasing a set of updates for supported versions of Windows 10. Here is the list of updates with their change logs.
Show or Hide Window Contents While Dragging in Windows 10
You can configure the Windows 10 operating system to show an outline border of a window you are dragging instead of the contents of the window. This change improves the OS performance a bit, as the OS shouldn't redraw the full window image. Here are two methods you can use to change the dragging behavior.
Get Media Feature Pack for N Editions of Windows 10
You have probably heard about special N and KN editions of Windows 10. These are editions that don't include Windows Media Player and its related features, including Store apps like Music, Video, Voice Recorder. Users who need to get these apps and features installed should do this manually.
Search for Similar Images on Bing with Windows 10 Photos app
Windows 10 ships with a Photos app which replaced the Windows Photo Viewer and Photo Gallery. Its tile is pinned to the Start menu. It comes with tight integration with Microsoft's very own cloud solution, OneDrive. A new version of the app allows searching for similar images on Bing directly without opening the browser.
Make Navigation Pane Expand to Open Folder in Windows 10
The Navigation pane is a special area on the left of File Explorer which shows the folders and system places like This PC, Network, Libraries and so on. You can make it automatically expand to the open folder, so it will show the full directory tree.
