You can enable or disable News and Interests open on hover in Windows 10. Windows 10 includes a new News and Interests widget on the taskbar. You can make it open when you hover over its taskbar icon with your mouse pointer. By default the flyout only appears when you click on the weather icon.
Edge Dev 91.0.852.0 is out with UI improvements
Microsoft has updated the Dev channel of Edge with a new build 91.0.852.0. It will allow you to open the History, Favorites, Downloads, etc. full page views with a middle-clicking or ctrl+click on the appropriate button on the toolbar. Also, the Password Monitor feature is now available to everyone.
Cumulative updates for Windows 10, April 13, 2021
Today's Patch Tuesday brought a number of cumulative updates to Windows 10 version 20H2 and older. Here's what's new in the released patches.
Enable or Disable Wake on LAN in Windows 10 (WOL)
Here's how to enable or disable Wake on LAN in Windows 10 (WOL)
Wake-on-LAN (WOL) is a cool feature that allows you to wake your PC from sleep or shutdown over the local network or the Internet. It works like a remote power button. If your hardware supports WOL, you can turn on your computer remotely.
Chrome 90 is out with AV1 encoder and read-only file paste
Google Chrome 90 is now available for download. This is quite and interesting release of the world's most popular browser, which includes such novelties as an AV1 encoder, the ability to paste read-only files from the clipboard. It also comes with a number of security enhancements, including blocking of the port 554 for HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP servers.
How to find the Windows Accessories folder in the Start menu
Where to find the missing Windows Accessories, Windows System, and Windows Administrative Tools folders in the Start menu.
Windows 10 has many different built-in apps. To make these apps more accessible and easier to find, Microsoft has arranged them under several thematic folders in the Start menu. Every consumer-based Windows 10 version comes with these folders: Windows Accessories, Windows System, Windows Administrative Tools, and Windows PowerShell.
Proton UI is now enabled by default in Firefox Nightly
Mozilla is inching closer toward the release of Firefox 89 that will bring some radical UI changes. Developers have been actively working on a brand-new design since the beginning of the current year. Codenamed Proton UI, this redesign will come with Firefox 89 due to release on June 1, 2021. Previously, Mozilla planned to ship this update in mid-May, but the company changed its plans and postponed the release by two weeks to gather more feedback.
You can now resize the Start menu independently from Windows Search
Windows has a ton of new visual changes coming soon in the next update. Some of these modifications are tiny and come without much fanfare or completely unannounced. A small change to how Windows handles the Start menu and Windows Search UIs is one of these improvements. Now, users can resize the Start menu independently from Windows Search.
Global Media Controls in Chrome receive a progress bar
Global Media Controls is a feature of Google Chrome that allows controlling all active media sessions in the browser from a single flyout. Today's Canary build of the browser adds one more minor feature that many may find useful. It now includes a progress bar for the video stream you currently play, so you can scroll back and forth with ease.
How to Enable Workspaces in Microsoft Edge
Here is how you can enable Workspaces in Microsoft Edge if this new feature is not yet available in your browser. While currently there is no flag for that in edge://flags, this can be done with by modifying the Edge shortcut.
