Articles Tagged “Windows Settings”
7 articles tagged “Windows Settings”, newest first.
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What Stops When You Turn On "Metered Connection"? ── The Effect on Windows Update, OneDrive and Store Apps
On a metered connection, Windows Update gets only priority updates and OneDrive pauses sync. Store apps, setup, tethering, and forgetting to turn it off.
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Is It Safe to Delete Windows.old and "Temporary Files"? ── When to Use Storage Sense and When to Use Disk Cleanup
Delete Windows.old or temporary files only if you won't lose anything. The 10-day rollback window, Downloads, the Recycle Bin, Storage Sense and Disk Cleanup.
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What Changes with the Windows Power Mode? ── Best Performance, Balanced and Best Power Efficiency Compared, and How to Choose
What changes with the Windows 11 power modes Best performance, Balanced and Best power efficiency: the CPU settings underneath, power plans, plugged in vs. o...
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What Is Windows Game Mode? ── What Changes When You Turn It On, and Does It Affect Anything Besides Games?
Windows Game Mode stops driver installs and restart notifications from Windows Update while a game runs, aiming for a steadier frame rate. What it changes, i...
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What Are “Dedicated GPU Memory” and “Shared GPU Memory” in Task Manager? — Why the Numbers Differ So Much on Integrated GPUs, and What Happens When Memory Runs Short
What dedicated and shared GPU memory in Task Manager mean, why integrated GPUs show little dedicated and a lot of shared memory, how the limit is set, and wh...
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Should Hardware Acceleration Be On or Off? — Chrome, Edge, Office and Teams Settings, and How It Differs from HAGS
Keep hardware acceleration on in Chrome, Edge and Office, and turn it off only to isolate display faults. Where the settings are, what you lose, and how it d...
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What Is Windows' Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling? — Does Turning It On Make Your PC Faster?
An illustrated, non-technical guide to Windows' hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling (HAGS): how it works, when to turn it on or off, why the setting may be m...