Talkspace Ad Voice (7:32)

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Paul Throt (8:33)

Privacy is also a big one, so there's a lot here. If you think back to the privacy episode we would have done a million years ago, or if you've read the Windows 11 field guide, one thing you may know is that these settings are actually in the Settings app for the most part, all but one. But they're all over the place and you have to know where to dive in and out to find these things. It's nice to have this right here where it is right. So I always do enable location tracking, I disable optional telemetry, but this allows you to actually turn it off. And that's the unique feature that's in here. So this is worth looking at. This is a night just for this one area alone. This is super nice because this is an area where Microsoft purposely makes it hard to find these options. They're all over the place. So this is a really nice one. And then ads. You know, again, this is not as convoluted, but these are all for the most part features that you can go into settings and disable as well. And so typically the way I do something like this is a pop up will appear and it'll say hey, this there's a suggested app and I'll say hey, time to turn off that notification. But this gives you a one stop shop for that, right? I've left this homepage in Settings on and that's just because it's kind of a nice front end. This is the homepage here. So if you disable this, it will default to the system view instead. But I actually don't mind the homepage and settings. One of the issues here is there are little bits of ad type things occurring in here. It wants you to back up, et cetera. You might get a, a banner up here at the top, but I don't find this objectionable. So I leave that on. But that's, you know, something that you should look at for sure. And then in Settings, this, this is an option that Microsoft added to Windows 11 recently, but it's not enabled by default. It's somewhere in Settings. It's in there. But now what you. So if I ran an app like Notepad, for example, and I right click this, there's a new option here for End task and this gives you the same functionality you would typically get if you went into, you know, maybe this app is crashed and it's. But it's not going away. It's still sitting there. So you open task, manage, you find it right click End task, right? This is just a quicker way to get to that. I find that useful. It says something negative, I think about how reliable Windows apps are, but I think this is kind of a nice thing. And then you could look again, as always, look through whatever else is there. But to me that's the big one there. And the last thing, this is one actually it might be in system. Is this in system? Where is this? I don't see it right now, but there's an option in here. It is. Sorry, it is in system. So there's an option in here called Digital Markets Act. And Microsoft has made a series of changes to Windows 11 available to people who live within the EU or the European economic area. And some of those capabilities are things that they don't give to people in the rest of the world. So for example, you could uninstall Microsoft Edge. If you absolutely never want to run this thing, you want your own browser to actually appear, God forbid, when you run, you know, something from widgets or from search or whatever, you can enable this. So I've actually enabled it originally I went back and disabled it. I don't want to inadvertently do something that screws around too much with the system. But that is one of the things that this app gives you a capability that gives you the capability to do even if you don't live with the in the eu. So I think that's pretty cool. So again, just for this Tweaks page and all of the subpages that appear here, this app to me is pretty amazing. There's more stuff going on. You can see down here Spotlight images. So I don't have those on the desktop. I'm pretty sure I must have them enabled on the lock screen. But this allows you to actually get those images and download them to your computer. We can use them for wallpaper, right this stuff like that. So it's absolutely worth going through this entire app. But again, for me, the point of this is this Tweaks UI user interface, I should say. And there's just an incredible range of stuff in there from, you know, the privacy to the File Explorer change that I made, etc. So this is. This has been kind of a game changer for me. I would say. The only thing that this app is missing is a way for it to monitor your system and prompt you if you install an update that changes one of those things back. So every once in a while you kind of want to go in and take a look, make sure things are the way you wanted them to be, or maybe it's something you'll see in the ui, then you can go back in and make that change again. But so far, so good. Like I said, at this point, I think I've been running this about three weeks and I. It's. It looks like it's all set up exactly the way it was when I first configured it, or whatever changes I've made since. So I don't think. I don't think Windows has screwed with it yet. So that's good news. So there you go. This is something to check out if you want Windows to work the way you want it to work. And I certainly do definitely look for Wintoys in the Microsoft Store. Hopefully you found this interesting or entertaining. We will have a new episode of Hands on Windows every Thursday. You can learn more at TWiT TV. H O W thank you to everyone for watching, but thank you especially to our club Twitter members. We love you. If you are not a subscriber, please consider subscribing and you can find out more about that at TWIT TV Club. Twit. Thanks. See you next week.

Talkspace Ad Voice (14:15)

This podcast is sponsored by Talkspace. May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and Talkspace, the leading virtual therapy provider, is telling everyone, let's face it, in therapy by by talking or texting with a supportive licensed therapist at Talkspace, you can face whatever is holding you back, whether it's mental health symptoms, relationship drama, past trauma, bad habits, or another challenge that you need support to work through. It's easy to sign up. Just go to talkspace.com and you'll be paired with a provider, typically within 48 hours. And because you'll meet your therapist online, you don't have to take time off work or arrange childcare. You'll meet on your schedule. Plus, Talkspace is in network with most major insurers, and most insured members have a $0 copay. Make your mental health a priority and start today. If you're not covered by insurance, get $80 off your first month with Talkspace when you go to talkspace.com and enter promo code space80. That's S P A CE 80 to match with a licensed therapist today, go to talkspace.com and Enter promo code space80.