Tips Trick

If it’s off, turn it back on right away. System Restore is the most effective way to save your day when it turns bad to you.

Being notified what’s going on is nice but having too much will get you distracted. Heading over to Settings → System → Notification & actions to turn off those unnecessary ones.

If you are like me, you would need all the space you can get on the Taskbar as you will be pinning apps down there as much as you can. If Search box takes too much space, let’s make it either smaller or disappear for good, along with the Taskview icon.

By default, windows 10 syncs all of your settings, themes, passwords, and other preferences with your Microsoft Account to bring a consistent environment for you if you log in the same account on different computers. But if this is not your thing or you just don’t want everything sync’d across board, Settings → Accounts → Sync your settings is the place to go.

If Microsoft Edge is yet good enough to be your primary browser for internet, it’s time to install Chrome or Firefox on your Windows 10. Otherwise, let’s customize your Edge a little to make it more personal and easy to use, things like theme, default search engine, start page, home page, bookmarks, etc.

If you decided to keep using Chrome or Firefox as your browser or Adobe as default PDF reader, you need to set them as default apps in Settings → System → Default apps.

To make sure 1) real-time protection is on; and 2) version info is up to date. It’s the built-in anti-virus system that comes with Windows 10 so you save money on something else. Keep it running in good shape is important to your system.