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Steps To Disable Location Tracking In Windows 10

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Windows 10 operating system was launched with a lot of features and security included in it. It has a lot of improvements when compared to that of its predecessors. Location based tracking is something that annoys the users as it is a security nightmare as it feels for many. But not many know that it doesn’t actually have to be that way, you can actually change the location settings and disable location access in Windows 10 using a few simple steps.

Disabling Location Tracking in Windows 10 Using Settings

  • Firstly, open Settings (Windows + I) and select Privacy
  • Here on the left-hand side panel, you will find App Permissions, below that you can see Location, just tap on the toggle button to turn it off

That’s it, this will disable the location access for Microsoft, built-in Windows 10 apps and even Microsoft Store apps on your device.

Disabling Location Tracking By Microsoft Store Apps

If you wish to track all apps from tracking you but have got no issues in letting Windows accessing your location, you can keep the earlier settings ‘On’

  • As you open the Settings page on your computer by clicking (Windows + I)
  • Scroll down on the same page and you will find Privacy option on the left side panel on your Windows screen
  • There under the option app permissions, you can find the option Location, turn off the toggle to disable location access for all the apps listed there

Disabling Location Access On Per App Basis

If you wish some of the apps on your computer like Weather, Clock, News access your location but don’t wished to be tracked on a wholesale by each and every app, then you need to keep both the earlier settings turned on. Then scroll down further to grant permissions for certain apps.

  • Under the Settings menu in your computer, head to the option Privacy
  • There, you will find App permissions option, below that you can see Location option, tap on it
  • Now, on the right-side panel you will see the list of apps. To grant or disable permission on per app basis, you just need to turn on or off each of the toggles individually

Disabling Location Tracking By Windows Apps

Desktop applications usually don’t ask for permissions to access data like the Microsoft apps does. To disable them from accessing your location, scroll down further and turn off the toggle for ‘Allow desktop apps to access your location’

Clear Location History In Windows 10

It can be noted that the location information saved on your device will automatically be deleted after a limited time, you can even delete it manually.

  • To clear location history, head to Settings>Privacy>Location then on the right hand side pane, find Location History and then tap on Clear

This is how you can pretty easily prevent Microsoft and its app from accessing/ collecting your geographical location information.

Quick Productivity Tips For Every Microsoft Outlook User

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Even though Gmail is the most popular email service Outlook remains one of the best email platforms for professional purposes.  This service from Microsoft even comes with a lot of productivity tools packed in it that helps you to save a lot of time. Here are a few tips that can add up to your features of the Outlook.

Outlook Tips You Should Know

Mark messages as read:

This email service will keep the messages as unread if you just open them and delete without moving to the other message, but this will create you a confusion about the messages, so avoid these things change your mail settings and let it mark as read immediately after open the mail.

For this, you need to open File>Options>Mail. Now click the reading pane button under the outlook panes. Here you should make sure that the ‘Mark items as read when viewed in the reading pane’ dialogue box is checked and in the number of seconds box enter 0.

Create new emails with copied text:

If you have something copied on your clipboard from the browser, document, or another email, or from somewhere on your computer and you want to send it as an email to someone, then you just click CTRL + V anywhere and it creates a new email with your copied text as its body.

Turn Off notifications with exceptions:

Completely turning off the email notifications of your Outlook mail will not be a good idea. The email service has a feature where you can turn off the notifications with some exceptions.

You need to go to File>Options>Mail, under the message arrival option check whether all the options are unchecked.

You can even create some rules for receiving notifications from particular important persons. Select the mail from the particular mail id or person and right click it, then select Rule>Create Rule. Here set up the settings as per your requirements. You can even use this option for creating conditions regarding the subject line and the level of importance.

These tips for Microsoft’s mail service will surely help you a lot.

Microsoft Develops a brand new operating system for computers

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For a long time, we all know that Microsoft has been dominating the desktop operating system market with Windows OS.

As per the information we got from various sources, Microsoft is ready to release a Lite-weight operating system, which is intended for the low-end laptops and foldable devices. The OS is entirely a new one programmed from scratch. It doesn’t have any similarities with Windows 10.

It is clear that the new OS won’t pronounce as Windows 10 Lite also. That’s why Microsoft is using “Santorini” as the code name for this project. The company may name the OS when it is ready for the general public. Slowly, Google is occupying the desktop market with Chromebooks. At last Microsoft started countering Google in the low-end desktop devices by focusing on the new OS.

The new OS might be announced in the Microsoft Build 2019 conference, which is scheduled to start in between May 7 and May 9 of this year. Everything is perfect, but Microsoft needs to focus on the number of applications available on Microsoft Store. Google Chromebooks achieved popularity after they have been supporting Android Apps. Microsoft must address the gap to compete with Chromebooks. Otherwise, only a brand new operating system doesn’t do magic, and users feel helpless when there is a lack of app support. Nowadays people are expecting innovative applications to address their day to day requirements.

A Simple Guide On How To Use Microsoft OneNote

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Microsoft OneNote is one of the most underrated note taking app. Many have just known it as an application to save to do lists and write down notes, but you can also actually write notes, to do lists, shopping lists with a stylus, and you can also convert your handwritten notes into text and can also organize your recipes collection.

Creating Notes:

The structure of OneNote involves three layers which include Notebooks, Sections, and pages. Once you are done with creating Notebook and sections, you can rename the page by typing in the top left corner of the page. You can then start writing or typing your notes. When you right click on the particular page name you have on the left-hand side of the OneNote, you will get the various options that you can do with the page. You can either choose to have a plain page, or lined page or a page with grid lines.

If your monitor supports using a stylus, I mean if your monitor is a touch screen then you will be provided with the Radial menu which will allow you to choose among the four different pen styles and various colours of pens and sizes of the pen lines.

In case your screen is not a touchscreen, then you will find the paper icon which will have different options which are also OneNote’s more complex.

Camera option which allows you to click pictures and insert them directly into the OneNote page, draw option allows you to draw with your mouse, table option to create your own customized tables. This radial menu is one of the best things in OneNote which gives you easy access to the settings.

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Customization:

There is a big room for customization in Microsoft OneNote which makes it the best application. You can get a lot of customizing options once you right click on the particular section or a page you will get the various options to customize. Under the customization options for the section, you will get colour changing option, there will be about 16 colours to choose from which will change the appearance of the entire application once you select a colour, but the right panel and bottom panel colours will be default and will never change and will be purple always.

You can pin a particular page or section to the start screen which will give quick access to that page or section.

Microsoft OneNote automatically saves the content to SkyDrive which will not give a chance to lose your content. And this also allows you to share the links to your pages with your friends and all.

So this is how you can easily use your OneNote application, hope you like this and start using OneNote and make it your default note-taking app.

 

Good bye, No more Command Prompt in Windows 10

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Every Windows user is familiar with the Command Prompt available in the operating system. Once upon a time time when DOS is the only operating system available, Command Prompt played a crucial role in issuing various commands and getting the results. 

Later Microsoft removed the complete DOS environment and limited the Command Prompt to a shell. Now, coming to the point, Microsoft completely stopped the DOS shell in the latest insider build and replaced it with the most powerful tool called `Power Shell’. 

If you issued cmd command in the run dialog box, instead of executing the command prompt now you will get the Power Shell. So Microsoft brought a major change in the opening system with the latest move. 

At present Microsoft provided a provision to get the Command Prompt back by disabling a setting called ‘Replace Command Prompt with Windows PowerShell in the menu when I right-click the Start button or press Windows key+X’ to Off’  in the personalization settings. 

Actually Power Shell is not new to the Microsoft users. It offers more powerful features to those who use core commands in the operating system. The sophisticated tool is celebrating its 10th anniversary right now. The change will be reflected in the final build of the Windows 10 operating system soon. So get ready to use the Power Shell.