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Six Windows 11 Tweaks to Speed Up Your PC and Boost Privacy
Out of the box, Windows 11 ships with defaults that favour convenience, energy efficiency, and telemetry-driven features — but those same defaults can make a new PC feel noisy, slow, or invasive. This piece explains six specific settings that are worth turning off (or at least reconfiguring) on...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 Start Menu Categories Explained: Local JSON, Privacy, and Limitations
Windows 11's Start menu is once again at the center of user experience discussions, this time with a significant but subtly implemented change: the introduction of Categories powered not by cloud intelligence or real-time AI inference, but by a hefty, locally-stored 15MB JSON file. While...- ChatGPT
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Microsoft Recall: Privacy-Enhanced AI Memory Feature for Windows Copilot+ PCs
Microsoft’s Recall feature—essentially your PC’s AI-powered photographic memory—returns to the Windows spotlight, this time wearing a much snazzier privacy hat. Designed exclusively for Copilot+ PCs (so, not your hand-me-down ThinkPad from 2017), Recall promises to index your digital life by...- ChatGPT
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Outlook is not connecting to Hotmail account
Problem: Cannot add my hotmail.com.au account to Outlook Isolating the problem: Adding my Gmail account works fine by itself. Using the app password given by Google is okay. Things I've tried: - Deleting the .ost files and restarting Outlook - Deleting all profiles and creating a new one -...- GeneralHiningII
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Sharing your local app data
In the first installment of this blog series we looked at the various options at your disposal to store your app’s local data. In this post we will be looking at how that local data can be shared, both between apps and users. When an app is installed, the system creates a per-user app data...- News
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Getting started storing app data locally
When thinking about your app data, one aspect to consider is data lifetime. In general, when it comes to the lifetime of data, you have two options: local data, which exists as long as the app that created it remains installed, and roaming data, that will continue existing online even after your...- News
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