There’s so much beauty around the places in England, being that in the cities where you’ll find incredible architecture, or in the middle of the woods and also beaches. Photographer Sean Byrne captured images from each of these stunning points that are now presented to you as the Beauty of Britain 2 theme of wallpapers. The Palace of Westminster and Elizabeth Tower are such breathtaking photographs, and the waves crashing by Cromer Pier and the image of Happisburgh Lighthouse, both in Norfolk, are incredible views....

Windows 11 build 26100.6584 (KB5065426) is now available as the September 2025 update for version 24H2. It introduces a redesigned Recall homepage, a clock in the Notification Center, a grid view for image searches, Lock Screen widget customization, a new Widgets board, a redesign of the Windows Hello experience, and numerous fixes. Windows 11 build 22631.5909 (KB5065431) for version 23H2 is now available for download through the Stable Channel with fixes and changes....

Google Now, the same functionality found in Android, makes its first official landing, after earlier attempt in the latest experimental Canary desktop version of Chrome 34.0.1788 for Windows, Mac, and Chrome OS. The Google Now integration isn’t enabled by default, but you can easily turn it on by going to the experimental page (chrome://flags/#enable-google-now) , changing the setting to “Enabled”, don’t forget to enable rich notifications as well (chrome://flags/#enable-rich-notifications) , and relaunching the browser....

On Windows 11 and Windows 10, Credential Manager is a legacy feature available through Control Panel designed to store sign-in information for websites, apps, and network services (such as shared folders and printers ), so you do not have to repeat the credentials in the future. Although you can store and manage network user information with Credential Manager, it’s also possible to use Command Prompt to add, remove, and view credentials....

To pause a print job, open Settings > Bluetooth & devices > Printers & scanners , select the printer, click “Additional printer settings,” and click the “Pause” button. To pause or cancel a print job, open the “Print Queue” app, right-click the job, or open the main menu and choose the “Pause” or “Cancel” option. You can also use the “Print Management” app to pause or cancel all the print jobs on your computer....

Starting with Android 7.0 Nougat, you can make elements on the screen smaller or larger with the “Display size” setting. There are so many Android devices with different screen resolutions and pixel density that it’s up to manufacturers to set the appropriate density settings (ro.sf.lcd_density). This allows the operating system and apps to scale properly on and display the same amount of content on a small as well as on larger screen....

To change the user folder name on Windows 11, you have to create a new local administrator account using the name as you want the user folder to appear from the “Other users” settings, transfer your files and settings from the old to the new account, delete the old account, and link your new account with your Microsoft account. Alternatively, you can also rename the user folder through the Registry by updating the “ProfileImagePath” string with the new name and then changing the account folder name from the “Users” folder....

To check your Windows 11 edition, open Settings > System > About , and confirm whether the specifications section reads “Windows 11 Pro” or “Windows 11 Home.” It’s also possible to confirm the edition using the System Information or Run app or by running commands using PowerShell or Command Prompt. UPDATED 2/10/2025: You can check whether a computer has Windows 11 Home or Pro simply to understand the edition installed on your computer....

The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) allows you to clone a Linux distribution, and in this guide, you will learn the steps to complete the process successfully. Although the WSL platform doesn’t include a clone option, you can use the export and import commands to make a copy of an existing Linux distribution on Windows 11 . Usually, you want to download the distributions from the Microsoft Store, but sometimes, you may need to test changes without affecting the original setup, which you may spend hours configuring....

There are many ways to configure port forwarding in a router, but the concept is the same from brand-to-brand, knowing how to set up port forwarding in one router will teach you to configure in almost all routers. The most common need of port forwarding is for online gaming, but there also other circumstance where you’ll want to forward ports. For example, when you need to be able to connect from the internet to your FTP server or just to connect to your VPN server to remote access your home computer ....

The ability to have multiple desktops is a powerful feature, as you can better organize and group your tasks, but it’s a problem when you only have one display. On Windows 10, the solution to this problem is “virtual desktops,” which is a feature that allows you to create additional desktops to overcome the limitations of a physical monitor. Virtual desktops on Windows 10 is new, but the idea isn’t actually new....

On Windows 11 , “Desktops” is a feature that allows you to organize your apps using virtual desktops to overcome the limitations of one monitor. The feature is also useful for keeping tasks separate. For example, you can create a desktop for personal tasks and another for work. You can rename each desktop, and each virtual space can have its own background image. The “Desktops” feature isn’t new. It’s been available for a long time as “Virtual Desktops,” but on Windows 11, Microsoft decided to change its name....

Windows 10 is capable of reopening apps you’re running in the last session on startup automatically. Of course, as long as the app has been designed with this functionality. While this might be a convenient feature for many users to speed up the sign-in process and pick up where you left off quickly, it’s not a feature for everyone. If this isn’t a feature you prefer to use, you can use the Settings app to stop this behavior....

Open Amazon on the web . Sign in your Amazon Prime account credential. Click the Account & Lists menu and select the Prime Membership option. Click the “Manage Membership” menu and choose the End Membership button. Click the Cancel My Benefits button. Click the Continue to cancel button.

To disable Remote Desktop on Windows 11, open Settings > System > Remote Desktop and turn off the “Remote Desktop” option. You can also turn off the feature using commands with PowerShell and Command Prompt. Other options include using the Group Policy Editor or the Registry Editor. On Windows 11 , if you don’t use Remote Desktop, it’s best to disable the feature to minimize the risk of malicious individuals trying to gain unauthorized access to your computer remotely....

On Windows 10, starting with version 2004 (May 2020 Update) there’s a new feature known as Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling , which is part of the Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) 2.7, and it allows supported graphics cards to manage their own memory to reduce latency and improve performance. However, it doesn’t work right out-of-the-box, as it requires newer drivers from the graphics card manufacturers. Nvidia supports Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling starting with its driver version 451....

Although Microsoft didn’t mention it, in addition to the new fixes and improvements, Windows 11 build 25188 also introduces a new set of animated icons for the Settings app. The feature is disabled by default, but when enabled, you will notice a specific animation based on the icon as you move between each section using the left pane, something that Microsoft describes as “delightful, unexpected moments of joy with purpose.”...

Windows 11 includes S nap layouts , a feature that when hovering over the maximize button in File Explorer or other apps gives you a visual aid to quickly snap windows on the screen, and you can enable or disable the feature as needed. Perhaps one of the best parts is that the feature is aware of the size of the display, which means that depending on how big your canvas is, you will see different ways to snap windows....

To enable Windows Terminal portable mode, download the “.zip” package, extract its content, create a “.portable” file to enable portable mode, and copy the folder to a USB flash drive, network drive, or another location. You can now use Windows Terminal in portable mode, and in this guide, you will learn how to set it up. Starting on version 1.7 and higher releases , the Windows Terminal allows you to deploy a self-contained portable environment that saves and maintains the application state and configuration to easily transport the console to different devices, maintaining the same experience....

On Microsoft Edge, “Sleeping Tabs” is a nifty feature designed to save system resources (such as memory and processor). When you enable the feature, open tabs will enter into a sleep mode after inactivity to free up resources to improve system performance and battery life. The next time you switch to the website, the tab will resume automatically. It is not a new idea since similar features are already available in other browsers through extensions like The Great Suspender for Chrome ....