As you may already know, Windows 10 comes with two color schemes for Store apps. The default one is light, there is also a darker one. Starting in Windows 10 Build 18282, that represents Windows 10 19H1, also known as "version 1903", you can apply the light or dark theme separately to Windows and to the Store apps.
Category: Windows 10
Firefox 65: New Content Blocking Settings
In Firefox 65, Mozilla is changing the appearance and features of the Content Blocking settings. Version 65 introduces three different modes that you can select to apply various levels of content blocking and filtering.
Disable Narrator Keyboard Shortcut in Windows 10
Narrator is a screen-reading app built into Windows 10. Narrator lets users with vision issues to use PC and complete common tasks. In recent Windows 10 versions, the Win+Ctrl+Enter keyboard shortcut is assigned to turn on the Narrator. Here is how to enable or disable it.
All Ways to Open Folder Options in Windows 10
Folder Options is a special dialog that allows changing settings and preferences for the built-in file manager of Windows 10. The dialog includes three tabs General, View, and Search. The changes you made here can be applied to all folders.
Windows 10 Sticky Notes Will Allow Adding Images To Your Notes
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. A new announcement reveals that the app will get support for image attachments in notes.
Change Folder Picture in Windows 10
In Windows 10, you can assign a picture to a folder. That picture will appear on the folder's icon instead of the default thumbnail preview of contents of the folder. Here is how it can be done.
Remove Drive from Storage Pool of Storage Spaces in Windows 10
Storage Spaces helps protect your data from drive failures and extend storage over time as you add drives to your PC. You can use Storage Spaces to group two or more drives together in a storage pool and then use capacity from that pool to create virtual drives called storage spaces. You can remove an existing drive from the Storage Pool of Storage Spaces in Windows 10, so it will be possible to use that drive for something else.
Create Environment Variables Shortcut in Windows 10
Environment variables in an operating system are values that contain information about the system environment, and the currently logged in user. They existed in OSes before Windows as well, such as MS-DOS. Applications or services can use the information defined by environment variables to determine various things about the OS, for example, to detect the number of processes, the currently logged in user's name, the folder path to the current user's profile or the temporary files directory. Recently I covered how to view those variables for system, for a specific user or for a process. In this article, I would like to share with you a trick to view or edit environment variables directly, from the command line or a shortcut.
KB4469342 Build 17763.165 is out to Release Preview Ring
Microsoft is silently releasing a new cumulative update KB4469342 to Insiders who have configured their PCs to receive updates from the Release Preview ring. They are getting KB4469342 along with a new servicing stack update, KB4470788.
Windows 10 Mail May Show Ads for Non-office 365 Subscribers
Windows 10 includes a new Mail app which is simplistic and allows you to send and receive e-mail from multiple accounts. It looks like Microsoft is working to make the app show ads for non-office 365 subscribers.
