Windows 11 Tips & Tricks You Should Be Using!

hello everyone today you have joined the DT creative elk YouTube channel Windows 11 Microsoft's newest operating system is packed full of enhancements and features that are quite useful so coming up to help you get the most out of using Windows 11 I'll show you tips tricks and features you'll want to usc.to improve your overall experience using the operating system let's get started when you first launch Windows 11 you'll notice the start menu and taskbar icons are Center aligned instead of being located on the left personally I think this looks a lot better and makes it more convenient to access your start menu and pin programs with less movement of your mouse but if you're someone that prefers the old layout with the start menu and pin programs aligned to the left right click on an empty space in your taskbar and select taskbar settings scroll down to the bottom of this page and click taskbar behaviors let's scroll down some more we're taskbar alignment click the drop down you have two choices click on left you'll now notice that the start menu and pin programs have been moved to the left as I said I now prefer the center alignment so I'll switch it back Microsoft has made a change in Windows 11 that has annoyed quite a few people when you right click on a file it will now only show you what Microsoft deems to be the most important items in the menu now if you want to print or access other choices you must take the extra step of clicking on show more options and what shows up looks like the old right-click menu some people have also been unhappy that Microsoft has removed the ability to pin selected folders to the start menu well you can still add folders to start but only those that are system folders to add system folders to start open the settings app in the left pane select personalization if you need to scroll down to start and select it then click on folders for those of you that want to see folders when you open the start menu toggle the switch on for each you may need to choose from I'll turn on documents downloads music pictures and videos when you're done close up the settings app now when you go to start you'll see those folders you turned on to the left of the power button while we're on the subject of the start menu you'll notice apps pinned by default by Microsoft that you might want to get rid of to unpin any app right click on it and select unpin from start on the flip side if you'd like to pin any app to the start menu click on all apps find it in the list after most use the list in an alphabetical order click on the header for each numbered or lettered entry to quickly jump through the list when you find the app that you'd like to pin right click on it and select pin to start click on back if you don't see it listed scroll down and you can easily move any pin app by left clicking on it and dragging it to where you want it a new feature shown in another one of our videos is the ability to arrange any open windows on your screen to snap any window on your screen of your cursor over the resized maximize button in the upper right you'll see various snapping templates select the Zone within one of the layouts listed then select the other windows you want to snap to the layout this especially comes in handy if you're on the laptop or any PC with only one monitor just like previous iterations of Windows Windows 11 also has a secondary start menu sometimes referred to as the secret start menu to open it right-click the start menu icon or you could use the keyboard shortcut Windows key plus X here you can access your power options device manager Windows terminal task manager and a whole lot more widgets in chat can't be unpinned the same way you right click on them does nothing to remove these from your taskbar let's open settings here on the left choose personalization scroll down and select taskbar in addition a search and task view clicking the searches for widgets in chat will remove them from the taskbar widgets is actually kind of useful so I'll turn that one back on earlier we were discussing Focus assist to selectively decide to turn off or set a priority level for notifications if you find the notifications in Windows 11 just to be way too much you can turn those off altogether so let's go into settings in system select notifications notifications are turned on by default clicking on the switch will turn them off for all apps you can also turn off notifications individually for maps and other senders as well if you want to give your eyes a break the dark mode in night light features are still available in Windows 11. to enable dark mode Let's Open the settings app any left pane select personalization then colors and choose your mode click the drop down and select dark that is so much better if you want to give your eyes more of a break let's enable the night light by going to system and display here at the top click on the switch for night light to turn it before they go to bed sleep better if you click Into Night Light you can set the strength of the blue light filter and you can also schedule a time for it to automatically turn on and turn off themes are still a thing in Windows 11 and not too much has changed to select the default theme right click on your desktop and select personalize those that say premium are also free and contain 4K images to download and install it click on get thanks for watching if this video is useful for you give it a thumbs up if you have a tip or trick for Windows 11 you'd like to share let us know about it in the comments and if you haven't done so already subscribe and ring the Bell so

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Length: 7min 12sec (432 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 17 2023