Category: Windows 10

Here's how you can change the default Lid close action on Windows 10. The Lid Close Action setting is a special power option that allows specifying the default action to take when the laptop lid is closed. You can set it to one of the following actions: sleep, hibernate, shut down, or just do nothing.

You can add Open in Windows Terminal as Administrator to Context menu in Windows 10 File Explorer, so this entry will allow you to open the app elevated from the right-click menu in the current folder.

When you have Windows Terminal installed, it add the Open in Windows Terminal entry to the right-click menu of folders in File Explorer. In addition, you can add a new administrative menu command, so you can have the app open in the folder of your choice running elevated.

Not so long ago, Microsoft provided detailed information about a neat feature called "Known Issue Rollback" or KIR. This tool helps Microsoft prevent widespread stability issues and bugs hitting more than 1.3 billion devices running Windows 10.

On January 1, 2021, Adobe finally pulled the plug on Flash and stopped supporting this outdated technology. Since then, different companies have been removing Flash from their browsers, operating system, etc. In the upcoming month, Microsoft will release a Windows update to hammer the last nail into the Flash's coffin. The company has quietly updated its blog, providing more details about the final stage of the Flash removal from Windows. It is a significant change, considering that more than 1.3 billion devices are running Windows 10 only. Soon, billions of computers will get rid of the old technology.

Microsoft has done a useful change to Device Manager tool which make it easier to see what hardware is using which drivers. A new option in the View menu allows you to arrange devices by the drivers they use.

You can add Disk Cleanup the the drive context menu in Windows 10 to quickly remove temporary files. When performing daily tasks, your computer downloads, creates and uses temporary files to keep the system and apps running. Most of the time, Windows 10 gets rid of these files in due time. Still, sometimes temporary files get stuck and fill up your system drive. Thus, almost every Windows 10 user knows that it is necessary to perform regular disk cleanups.

You can add the Settings app to the Classic Control Panel in Windows 10 for your convenience.

Since very first version of Windows 10, released in July 2015, Microsoft is actively trying to migrate the Classic Control Panel options to the new Settings app. After six years, many users still prefer the old Control Panel. Nevertheless, lots of the Windows 10 settings are now available exclusively in the new Settings app. Thus, Microsoft makes users to use both Control Panel and Settings.

Microsoft today released Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21370 to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. While it doesn't include a lot of changes, it finally groups plenty of Bluetooth endpoints into one device and detects the correct endpoint automatically.

Today, Microsoft is releasing its monthly Preview updates for Windows 10 2004 and version 20H2. The updates share the change log, since both Windows versions share the code base, and the only difference is the set of enabled features by default in the releases.