Category: Windows 11

Here's how to install the new Microsoft Store for Windows 11 if your preview setup doesn't include the updated app. Alongside Windows 11, on June 24, 2021, Microsoft announced a brand-new marketplace. Apart from fresh and significantly better design and Android apps support, the new Microsoft Store brings tons of new policies for developers that make publishing and maintaining apps much easier. Developers can use their own content delivery network and payment systems without sharing fees with Microsoft. Also, Microsoft Store now accepts virtually any app.

In Windows 11, you can change the touch keyboard size and theme. Microsoft significantly reworked the touch keyboard in the latest OS. It now comes with a new design and a bunch of customization options. You can change its size and create custom themes similar to how keyboards work on Android and iOS. Here is how to change touch keyboard size and create custom themes in Windows 11.

Here is how you can set an animated user profile image in Windows 10 and Windows 11. For example, you can set to a video. While Microsoft officially does not allow using videos or animations as profile images, a simple trick can bypass that limitation.

Here is how to open the Win + X menu in Windows 11. It remains available in the latest version of the operating system.

The first preview build comes with new boot animation in Windows 11. While we got a new Windows logo, the system still uses an almost ten-year-old spinner on the boot screen. A new loading animation previously appeared in a leaked Windows 10X build, but that operating system recently bit the dust. Windows 11 has borrowed from now-deceased Windows 10X many new features and design ideas, including the new boot animation.

Here's how you can open Quick Settings in Windows 11, a new flyout that allows changing essential operating system options with a single click. You can access either from the taskbar, touch screen, or with a keyboard shortcut.

You can reset taskbar corner overflow icons (notification area or tray icons) in Windows 11 if they look messed up or broken. Windows 11 taskbar includes a notification corner at the right edge.

Windows 11 comes with many new features and improvements, among which there are several new keyboard shortcuts. So far, Microsoft released only one official preview build, so in the future, the list of new keyboard shortcuts in Windows 11 may expand.

On June 28th, 2021, Microsoft released the first official Windows 11 preview build to the public. Windows 11 comes with a huge list of new features and UI improvements that will make users happy and excited about Windows again. As is always the case with pre-release software, early Windows 11 builds contain bugs, instabilities, and rough surfaces. Microsoft has published the official list of known bugs in Windows 11, plus enthusiasts managed to find workarounds for other hiccups you may encounter while testing the new OS from Microsoft.

You can enable DNS over HTTPS in Windows 11 using four methods reviewed in this post. Microsoft updated the Settings app, so it is now easy to configure this feature with just a few clicks.