Important: If your Microsoft cloud storage is full, you cannot send or receive email.Messages sent to you while your storage was full are bounced back to the sender and are unrecoverable. Check your mailbox storage to see what's taking up space. Learn more about recent changes.

To change appearance, select Appearance and make the changes you want to your default theme, zoom, toolbar, and fonts.

The display language you select changes the default language used by Windows features, such as Settings and File Explorer. Select Start > Settings > Time & Language > Language.

Do. Don't. Do make the new password significantly different from previous passwords. Don't use the same password for different accounts. Do use a sentence or phrase converted into a string of initials, numbers, and symbols.

How does multifactor authentication work? Let's say you're going to sign into your Microsoft account or work or school account, and you enter your username and password.If that's all you need then anybody who knows your username and password can sign in as you from anywhere in the world!

Microsoft generally releases the MSRT on a monthly cadence as part of Windows Update or as a standalone tool. (For exceptions, see Skipped releases.)Use this tool to find and remove specific prevalent threats and reverse the changes that they made (see Covered malware families).For comprehensive malware detection and removal, consider using Windows Defender Offline or Microsoft Safety Scanner.

If you are using a mouse, select Start > Settings > Accessibility > Magnifier.Select View, and then open the Keep the mouse pointer or Keep the text cursor drop-down menu, and select how Magnifier behaves when the mouse pointer or text cursor move around the screen. This is something you should experiment with to see which combination works best for you.

If you turn on the Microsoft account setting for Cloud content search, Windows Search will show results from items in your personal OneDrive, Outlook, and other Microsoft services.If you search the web or get web search suggestions with Windows Search, Bing will personalize your results. You can also earn Microsoft Rewards points when you search with Bing in the Windows search box.

Optimizations for windowed games improves gaming on your PC by using a new presentation model for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 games that appear in a window or in a borderless window.

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