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 that's got 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 in
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 gonna 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 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 in pre-release build of Windows 11
No longer work bummer But we say possibly the most consequential tweak for last disabling
virtualization based security or VBS in a nutshell VBS is an advanced security features 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 shifts 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's 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?
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