Windows 11 updates provide the latest features and security improvements to help keep your PC more current and more secure. Before the installation process starts, Windows checks to make sure there’s enough storage space on your device for the installation process and for these new features and security improvements.

Under Personalization & advertising, turn on or off the setting for Allow Microsoft to save your browsing activity including history, usage, favorites, web content, and other browsing data to personalize Microsoft Edge and Microsoft services like ads, search, shopping and news.

Edit photos and videos. Whether you like to apply changes that affect your photo's quality, feel, and look—or you want to add information on top of your photos, the Photos app offers you comprehensive features to transform your photos and videos looking their best.

Note: If your version is newer than those listed below, it’s because there may be a delay between when versions start rolling out and when they are updated on this page.

Here are a few different ways to find help for Windows. Search for help - Enter a question or keywords in the search box on the taskbar to find apps, files, settings, and get help from the web.

Limited emergency calling Skype is not a replacement for your telephone and has limited emergency calling capabilities depending on your country.

Note In addition to the DefaultSecureProtocols registry subkey, the Easy fix also adds the SecureProtocols at the following location to help enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 for Internet Explorer.. The SecureProtocols registry entry that has value 0xA80 for enabling TLS 1.1 and 1.2 will be added in the following paths: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings

Examples To view your System Information, type: msinfo32 To create an .nfo file in the folder C:\Temp with a name of Test.nfo, type:. msinfo32 /nfo C:\TEMP\TEST.NFO To create a .txt file in the folder C:\Temp with a name of Test.txt, type:. msinfo32 /report C:\TEMP\TEST.TXT To view System Information from a remote computer with a UNC name of BIGSERVER, type:

Open Edge browser, select Settings and more in the upper-right corner of your browser window.

Data Execution Prevention (DEP) is a technology built into Windows that helps protect you from malicious code launching from areas of memory that have been designated as for data only.