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The Windows Settings app will refuse to download additional language packs if you’ve locked a language in the legacy Control Panel.

Report false-positives in Windows SmartScreen to Microsoft when it thinks your software is malicious. Useful for programs without a security reputation.

Update to the latest version of EdgeDeflector for compatibility with Windows 10 16241 onwards. EdgeDeflector makes Windows respect your default browser setting.

Windows Search still doesn’t understand partial matches, favors Microsoft products, and struggles with finding newly installed programs.

A look at Microsoft’s next-generation Resilient File System (ReFS) in Windows 10. Here’s what worked, and what didn’t.

Is the Microsoft Network Speed Test or Ookla Speed Test the best bandwidth-measuring and network testing app for your Windows device?

Get rid of the Cortana digital assistance and reinstate the traditional Windows Search experience in your Windows 10 Start menu.

An app in the Microsoft Store lets you earn some Bitcoin pocket-change to be part of crypto-currency future. Or, at least enough to play with it.

Fluxfonts — the open-source anti-font-fingerprinting program — is now available on Windows. Helps prevent your device from being fingerprinted by trackers.

The OneDrive app comes pre-installed in Windows 10. Sometimes it can be useful to reinstall it to fix various issues. Here’s how to do a clean install.

Microsoft finally gives in and gives customers more choice regarding when to reboot their devices to apply software updates.

Windows 10 supports syncing email, contacts, and calendars with all major providers. However, Microsoft chooses to close it down to a handful of providers.