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New PC? Your Apps and Passwords Do Not Come Across

Microsoft publishes what gets left behind, and four things on that list are the four people most expect to arrive.

It is genuinely Microsoft’s and it costs nothing, but it is not part of Windows and most of what it does you already own.

Three of the four commands people recommend returned nothing here. The one that worked is a performance counter nobody mentions.

Windows lets you pause and will not let you stop. Active hours is the setting that solves the real complaint.

A laptop screen is not window glass. Dell publishes the list of chemicals that strip the coating permanently.

Everyone opens it for the Windows 11 question. It reports three other things, and one predicts the next year.

Windows 11 changed where File Explorer starts and hid the desktop icon. Both are single settings you can put back.

There are two Outlooks on Windows now, they search in completely different ways, and most published fixes only apply to one.

Photos are a separate switch, and the 15 GB is your whole account rather than a backup allowance.

Two devices each holding a stale record of the other, and clearing only the phone side is why re-pairing fails.