Pinned

Quick Controls

Quick and easy access to common functions and settings.

Pinned apps

You're not a TikToker, Instagram fan, or note-taker? Well, you probably don't need to see these apps, so feel free to remove them.

Recommended

Choose how much information you want to share with Microsoft.

Windows 11 comes integrated with advertising. Microsoft assigns a unique identifier to track your activity in the Microsoft Store and on UWP apps to target you with relavant ads

Let apps show me personalized ads by using my advertising ID

Tips and Suggestions Notifications on your Windows device for a more focused computing experience

Get tips and suggestions when using Windows

Windows won't be able to help you keep track of your device if you lose it.

Find my device

Send only info about your device, its settings and capabilities, and whether it is performing properly. Diagnostic data is used to help keep Windows secure and up to date, troubleshoot problems, and make product improvements

Diagnostic data

Help Microsoft improve your Windows experience and fix problems more quickly by sending us additional diagnostic data. This includes data about websites you browse, how you use apps and features, and enhanced error reporting.

Send optional diagnostic data

You can customize your lock screen. Try changing the background to a favorite photo or slide show. You can also choose quick status notifications to show you upcoming calendar events, social network updates, or other app and system notifications.

Use personalized lock screen

If your PC is experiencing slowdowns or inexplicable crashes, then you should make it your priority to diagnose what’s causing those problems. You can configure Windows so that you receive verbose startup, shutdown, logon, and logoff status messages. Verbose status messages may be helpful when you're troubleshooting slow startup, shutdown, logon, or logoff behavior.

Display highly detailed status messages

When you create a new account in Windows, it comes up with options related to privacy. For example, you will see the option to enable or disable Speech recognition, Location service, Find my device, Inking & typing, and so on.

Privacy Settings Experience at sign-in

The Windows 11 Start menu comes with a default Bing search engine. It shows up when you use Windows Search or open the Start menu. For local searches, it doesn't work well and slows down the search experience.

Say goodbye to Bing Cloud content search

Visual effects are the visual bells and whistles for the appearance of Windows for your account. These visual bells and whistles can affect the performance of Windows on the PC though. This will turn off all visual effects under My computer > Properties > Advanced > Settings > and set to "Adjust for best performance".

Adjust visual effects for best performance

The built-in Game DVR feature helps you record your gameplay, capture screenshots, and share them online. But it can interfere with your game’s performance, too. Background recording requires some of your GPU power, and some gamers will want all the GPU power they can get. If you experience low FPS or FPS loss after upgrading to Windows 11, you may resolve the issue by disabling the Xbox DVR feature.

Game DVR feature

With the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, Microsoft’s OS has added feature called Power Throttling Power Throttling is only available on Intel 6th gen and higher processors), a way to increase the battery life of laptops by slowing down background processes. This feature is enabled by default in laptops and tablets. Though Windows is good at detecting background apps and limiting power, there might be situations where this feature is not so desirable.

Power Throttling

Remove pinned apps *Microsoft may not like it, but we don't care.

Here are some candidates that have made it onto my death list. Microsoft partnered with other companies to add stylish app icons to the new Windows 10 and 11 Start Menu. Want to personalize your desktop? Just click on icons like Picsart Pro or WhatsApp, and you're all set! But wait, there's more – Windows 11 also comes with popular apps like Spotify, Instagram, and TikTok. Feeling a bit crowded? No worries! If you're ready to tidy things up, you can remove these apps right here.

Installed App Packages

Install missing apps

Clippy's app picks for a delightful Windows experience! Windows comes with basic apps for many purposes, but a lot of the best Windows software isn't pre-installed. You may choose to download and install a web browser other than Microsoft Edge, such as Chrome or Firefox. Because every app is a new adventure!

ID Google.Chrome

A more simple, secure, and faster web browser than ever, with Google’s smarts built-in.

ID Mozilla.Firefox

Mozilla Firefox is free and open source software, built by a community of thousands from all over the world.

ID Opera.Opera

The Opera browser includes everything you need for private, safe, and efficient browsing, along with a variety of unique features to enhance your capabilities online.

ID VivaldiTechnologies.Vivaldi

Web browser based on Chromium with added features inspired by Opera.

ID VideoLAN.VLC

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files, and various streaming protocols.

ID 7Zip.7zip

Free and open source file archiver with a high compression ratio.

ID Notepad++.Notepad++

Notepad++ is a free source code editor that supports several languages.

ID Microsoft.PowerToys

Microsoft PowerToys is a set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows experience for greater productivity.

ID Adobe.Acrobat.Reader.64-bit

The free global standard for reliably viewing, printing, signing, and commenting on PDF documents.

ID IrfanSkiljan.IrfanView

Fast and compact image viewer and converter

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