Informational - Pcglance

Adjust Appearance and Performance? Two Places, Not One

Two different screens both claim to turn Windows animations off. They do not match, and the preset here had never been touched.

The temporary folder here held 11,622 files. The Recycle Bin, which everybody empties first, held twelve.

Microsoft says it is not enabled by default, and the machine here proved it. An empty list is the normal state, not a fault.

Group Policy Editor does not ship with Home, and neither does Local Security Policy. The registry is where those settings live anyway.

It takes every saved Wi-Fi network with it. Ten were stored on the machine here, and Microsoft calls a reset the last step you try.

Ten seconds in Display settings. Then why it happened, which is a graphics driver shortcut rather than anything in Windows.

One of the three cannot hold a file over four gigabytes. Microsoft publishes the number, and it decides the choice for most people.

Documents and Pictures moved into OneDrive on the machine here and Downloads did not. Microsoft explains exactly why.

A default is stored per file type, not per app. Eight extensions on the machine here held eight separate entries.

It replaces the password for one site and lives on your device. And no, you do not need a fingerprint reader.