To find your BitLocker recovery key in Windows 11, sign in at account.microsoft.com/devices on a phone or a second computer, find the locked PC in the device list, click Show…
Prompt injection is an attack where hidden text tricks an AI into following instructions it was never supposed to obey. Because an AI model cannot reliably tell your commands apart…
Microsoft Edge now includes an on-device AI feature called the Scareware Blocker. When a web page forces itself into full screen, a small computer-vision model running locally on your PC…
Microsoft has extended free Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) for home users by another full year, pushing the consumer end date to October 2027. If your PC is already…
Secure Boot certificates on Windows 10 and Windows 11 that were issued in 2011 are expiring in June 2026. Your PC will not stop booting — existing software keeps running…
To disable the Advertising ID on Windows 10 and 11, open Registry Editor, navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AdvertisingInfo, and set the Enabled DWORD value to 0 (create it if it doesn’t exist)….
To disable Remote Assistance in Windows 10 and 11, open Registry Editor, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Remote Assistance, and set the fAllowToGetHelp DWORD value to 0. This prevents Windows from allowing incoming…
To disable Wi-Fi Sense in Windows 10 and 11, open Registry Editor (Windows + R, type regedit), navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WcmSvc\wifinetworkmanager\config, and set the AutoConnectAllowedOEM DWORD to 0. Then create the…
To disable location services on Windows 10 or Windows 11 via the registry, open Terminal as administrator and run three reg add commands that set the ConsentStore location value to…
To disable automatic feedback sampling in Windows 10 and 11, open Registry Editor, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\DataCollection, and create three DWORD values: NumberOfSIUFInPeriod set to 0, PeriodInNanoSeconds set to 0, and…
