Important: Before trying any of the solutions below, make sure you back up your personal files. You can back up your Windows PC, or insert a USB drive and use File Explorer to drag and copy important files to the USB drive.If you’re signing into Windows with a Microsoft account, your system settings will be automatically restored after updating, once you’re connected to the internet.

Sign in to a work/school account using a remote computer. Many apps allow you to authenticate by entering a code on another device such as a PC.

Whether you're at home, work, or out and about, chances are you'll find a Wi-Fi network that you can connect to for internet access. Select the Network, Sound, or Battery icons ( ) on the far right side of the taskbar to open quick settings. The Disconnected icon appears when you’re not connected.

Select Start > Settings > Personalization.The preview window gives you a sneak peek of your changes as you make them. In Personalize your background, you can select a picture, a solid color, or a slideshow of pictures you create.Or you can choose Windows spotlight to see a new image from around the world every day.

Notes: If you know your password, but just want to change it, go to account.microsoft.com Security tab, and select Change my password. If you know your username and password but they have stopped working, read My username and password have stopped working.

Learn how to open MSConfig in Windows 10 using the taskbar search bar and access system configuration.

For keyboard shortcuts in which you press one key immediately followed by another key, the keys to press are separated by a comma (,). For example, for è you would press Ctrl + `, release and then type e.

Contact Microsoft Support. What's new. Surface Pro; Surface Laptop; Surface Laptop Studio 2

Problem. Description. Quotation marks appear in result string. Use commas to separate adjoining text items. For example: Excel will display =CONCATENATE("Hello ""World") as Hello"World with an extra quote mark because a comma between the text arguments was omitted.

Learn how to run Windows Update Troubleshooter to resolve errors downloading or installing Windows updates.