If you have a touch screen device with Windows 10 installed, you can tweak its touch scrolling friction. The friction is the amount by which the content scrolls up, down, left or right when you slide your finger to scroll.
Category: Windows 10
A refined look for Search in Windows 10 features rounder corners
As you may remember, Microsoft is testing an update to Cortana in Windows 10. In the latest Insider Preview build, developers separated Cortana and search in the taskbar by giving them individual taskbar buttons and flyouts. A server-side change adds a new section to the search pane.
Windows 10 v1903 Introduces “Additional Updates Available” Feature in Windows Update
Microsoft is rolling out a new Windows Update feature to Windows 10 version 1903 users. A new section in Windows Update, named "Download and install now" is intended to make updates more transparent to the user, and to provide more control over the update installation process in Windows 10.
Windows 10 Build 17763.439 (KB4501835)
Microsoft is releasing a new cumulative update for Windows 10 version 1809. The patch KB4501835 raises the OS version to 17763.439. The change log comes with a number of fixes along with support for for the new Japanese era.
Windows 10 Build 18890 (20H1, Fast Ring)
Microsoft is releasing a new build from the 20H1 development branch. Build 18890 doesn't including new features; it comes with a number of fixes only.
How to Enforce Disk Quota Limits in Windows 10
NTFS is the standard file system of the Windows NT operating system family. It supports disk quotas, that help administrators track and control disk space usage by users. Today, we will see how to enforce disk quota limits.
Change New Mail Notification Sound in Windows 10
When Windows 10 shows a notification, e.g. when you need to update your Defender signatures or need to perform some action related to system maintenance, a sound is played by default. However, for a new email message, Windows 10 plays an individual sound. Here's how to change or disable it.
Disable Message Preview Text in Windows 10 Mail App
Windows 10 includes a new Mail app which is simplistic and allows you to send and receive e-mail from multiple accounts. By default, the app show the subject and first line of an email message in list of messages. For privacy reasons, you might want to hide the first line (message preview) and only have the subject line shown for your emails.
Deny Write to Fixed Drives not Protected by BitLocker
For extra protection, Windows 10 allows enabling a special policy that prevents write operations to fixed drives that are not protected by BitLocker. Non-protected drives will be mounted as read-only to ensure that all your sensitive data is written to an encrypted storage device.
Delete Hyper-V Virtual Machine in Windows 10
Windows 10, Windows 8.1 and Windows 8 come with Client Hyper-V so you can run a supported guest operating system inside a Virtual Machine. Hyper-V is Microsoft's native hypervisor for Windows. It was originally developed for Windows Server 2008 and then ported to Windows client OS. It has improved over time and is present in the latest Windows 10 release as well. Here are a number of ways to delete an existing Hyper-V virtual machine.
