If your system is asking you for your BitLocker recovery key, the following information may help you locate your recovery key and understand why you're being asked to provide it. Important: Microsoft support is unable to provide, or recreate, a lost BitLocker recovery key.

The Microsoft Authenticator app helps you sign into your accounts when you're using two-step verification.

Use the Add a language feature to install another language for Windows 11 to view menus, dialog boxes, and supported apps and websites in that language. To do this: Select Start > Settings > Time & language > Language & region. Go to Preferred languages, select Add a language.

Learn more about chatting via SMS. Mobile Desktop. Add SMS users to a new group. Tap the New Chat button. Tap New group chat. Take or add a photo, type a group chat name, then tap Next. In the To: line, type the SMS user's phone number and Add contact name to the phone number.

Meeting recordings expire and are automatically deleted after a set period of time. The default amount of time it's available is set by your admin. If you're the meeting organizer, you can change or remove the meeting's recording expiration date. For more info, see Record a meeting in Teams.

Use Game Bar to play and chat with friends. Performance (9) – Track your game’s frames-per-second (FPS) and other real-time stats. For more info, go to: Track your PC’s performance with Game Bar. Resources (10) – See what apps and processes are using system resources to help you optimize gaming performance.

Did this resolve your issue? Check the Xbox services, games, and apps for any service outages.

You can start a chat with an SMS participant in supported countries, see How to chat via SMS on Microsoft Teams (free) . You can also link your Android in Microsoft Teams (free) to connect your phone to Teams—get access to your SMS text messages and contacts, and receive notifications.

After this time, you may be billed, and you’ll need to request a refund to cancel your order. For more info about digital game pre-orders, see: Pre-order Xbox digital games in the Microsoft Store. Visit the links below to find out about refunds for other types of products: Xbox subscription cancellations and refunds.

Use Remote Desktop on your Windows, Android, or iOS device to connect to a Windows 10 PC from afar. Here's how to set up your PC to allow remote connections and then connect to the PC you set up.