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Windows 11 is here and although microsoft is of course promising the

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moon as usual there are some changes from Windows 10 that you might not be

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super thrilled about imagine that so here are five features

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that we think it's a good idea for you to go and tweak right now if you've

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already installed Windows 11. it's impossible not to notice how the icons

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on the taskbar including the start button are now aligned to the center of

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the screen maybe microsoft is trying to copy macOS or maybe they just thought

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it looked prettier but regardless of what the real reason was many folks

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immediately wondered if they could just put everything back to the left turns

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out you sure can just open up the settings app and you'll see a

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personalization and taskbar menu choose that then hit taskbar behaviors and

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you'll see an option to align everything to the left as god intended our next tip

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will address another feature that's frustrating for power users the new

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right-click context menu in Windows explorer microsoft tried to simplify it

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by putting common options like copy paste delete and rename up top as icons

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but other options such as send to and create shortcut are hidden now so you

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might want to get the old style menu back if you find yourself missing those

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unfortunately there's not a simple switch in the settings app for this so

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you'll need to do a little digging around and you guessed it the registry

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fortunately it's just a matter of creating a new key in the right spot and tweaking a couple of values we're going

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to link full instructions for how to do this down in the video description so

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you can copy and paste the correct values instead of trying to type them out yourself moving on it's not

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surprising that Windows 11 features some icons on the taskbar for microsoft

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services you may have no interest in

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using probably the most obvious of these is chat which is a new app that's kind

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of like microsoft teams except it's geared more towards users than

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businesses and organizations nice try microsoft but most of your

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users probably rely much more on a chat app like signal or telegram or whatsapp

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and simply have no use for microsoft chat so that icon is just wasting space

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on your taskbar to remove it just go to your settings app go to personalization

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then taskbar you'll find an options group that lets you show or hide taskbar

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buttons just disable chat to reclaim that space we'll tell you about our next

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20 bucks off now let's talk a bit about the start menu gone is the big list of

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folders and shortcuts we've been used to since the days of Windows 95 with the

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new start menu relying a lot more on keyword searches and automatically

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recommended shortcuts based on your usage patterns but you can still pin

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frequently accessed system folders like downloads and documents to the new start

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menu if you'd like in your settings app go to personalization then start then

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folders where you can toggle what you'd like to see on and off unfortunately it

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looks like the registry tweaks that some people were using to bring back the

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Windows 10 start menu and pre-release builds of Windows 11 no longer work

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bummer but we've saved possibly the most consequential tweak for last disabling

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virtualization based security or vbs in

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a nutshell vbs is an advanced security feature that has been documented to slow

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down performance particularly in gaming and while vbs shouldn't be an issue if

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you've upgraded from Windows 10 it can actually be enabled by default if you do

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a clean install of Windows 11 or if you bought a pc that ships with it

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fortunately it's pretty easy to turn off if you know what to look for in the

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settings app go to privacy and security then Windows security then device

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security you should see something that says core isolation details click that

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then toggle off the switch under memory integrity see what i meant about knowing

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what to look for restart your computer and vbs should be disabled you can

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confirm this actually by checking Windows as Windows's Windows system

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information app what are your pro tips for Windows 11 let us know in the

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comments below but it would really be nice if microsoft could just give us

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what we want in the first place wouldn't it so thanks for watching guys if you liked this video hit like hit subscribe

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and hit us up in the comments section with your suggestions for topics that we

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should cover in the future