Windows 11 is here and although microsoft is of course promising the
moon as usual there are some changes from Windows 10 that you might not be
super thrilled about imagine that so here are five features
that we think it's a good idea for you to go and tweak right now if you've
already installed Windows 11. it's impossible not to notice how the icons
on the taskbar including the start button are now aligned to the center of
the screen maybe microsoft is trying to copy macOS or maybe they just thought
it looked prettier but regardless of what the real reason was many folks
immediately wondered if they could just put everything back to the left turns
out you sure can just open up the settings app and you'll see a
personalization and taskbar menu choose that then hit taskbar behaviors and
you'll see an option to align everything to the left as god intended our next tip
will address another feature that's frustrating for power users the new
right-click context menu in Windows explorer microsoft tried to simplify it
by putting common options like copy paste delete and rename up top as icons
but other options such as send to and create shortcut are hidden now so you
might want to get the old style menu back if you find yourself missing those
unfortunately there's not a simple switch in the settings app for this so
you'll need to do a little digging around and you guessed it the registry
fortunately it's just a matter of creating a new key in the right spot and tweaking a couple of values we're going
to link full instructions for how to do this down in the video description so
you can copy and paste the correct values instead of trying to type them out yourself moving on it's not
surprising that Windows 11 features some icons on the taskbar for microsoft
services you may have no interest in
using probably the most obvious of these is chat which is a new app that's kind
of like microsoft teams except it's geared more towards users than
businesses and organizations nice try microsoft but most of your
users probably rely much more on a chat app like signal or telegram or whatsapp
and simply have no use for microsoft chat so that icon is just wasting space
on your taskbar to remove it just go to your settings app go to personalization
then taskbar you'll find an options group that lets you show or hide taskbar
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
folders and shortcuts we've been used to since the days of Windows 95 with the
new start menu relying a lot more on keyword searches and automatically
recommended shortcuts based on your usage patterns but you can still pin
frequently accessed system folders like downloads and documents to the new start
menu if you'd like in your settings app go to personalization then start then
folders where you can toggle what you'd like to see on and off unfortunately it
looks like the registry tweaks that some people were using to bring back the
Windows 10 start menu and pre-release builds of Windows 11 no longer work
bummer but we've saved possibly the most consequential tweak for last disabling
virtualization based security or vbs in
a nutshell vbs is an advanced security feature that has been documented to slow
down performance particularly in gaming and while vbs shouldn't be an issue if
you've upgraded from Windows 10 it can actually be enabled by default if you do
a clean install of Windows 11 or if you bought a pc that ships with it
fortunately it's pretty easy to turn off if you know what to look for in the
settings app go to privacy and security then Windows security then device
security you should see something that says core isolation details click that
then toggle off the switch under memory integrity see what i meant about knowing
what to look for restart your computer and vbs should be disabled you can
confirm this actually by checking Windows as Windows's Windows system
information app what are your pro tips for Windows 11 let us know in the
comments below but it would really be nice if microsoft could just give us
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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