Request a refund for digital games | Xbox Support
Refunds are typically issued for requests meeting the following criteria: Requests are made within 14 days of the purchase date; Requests are for games in which you haven’t accumulated a significant amount of play time
Welcome to Copilot on Windows - Microsoft Support
At Microsoft, we're guided by our AI principles, our Responsible AI Standard, and decades of research on AI, grounding, and privacy-preserving machine learning.Data privacy and security is a key principle of responsible AI. We aim to help our customers use our AI products responsibly, sharing our learnings, and building trust-based partnerships.
Remove specific prevalent malware with Windows Malicious Software ...
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.
Account has been locked - Microsoft Support
You can use any phone number that can receive text messages; it doesn’t need to be associated with your account. We won't use or give out the phone number, and the code sent to it will expire after 10 minutes.
Automatically get recommended drivers and updates for your hardware ...
Information. Windows can download high-resolution icons for many hardware devices that you connect to your computer, along with detailed information about them, such as product name, manufacturer, and model number—even detailed information about the sync capabilities of a device.
Customize the ribbon in Office - Microsoft Support
What you can customize: You can personalize your ribbon to arrange tabs and commands in the order you want them, hide or unhide your ribbon, and hide those commands you use less often.Also, you can export or import a customized ribbon. What you can't customize: You can't reduce the size of your ribbon, or the size of the text or the icons on the ribbon.
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Use Smart charging in Windows - Microsoft Support
Lithium-ion batteries wear out over time, which can result in a battery not holding a charge for as long as it did when it was new. Keeping the battery charged to 100% all the time can cause it to deteriorate faster.
Set up an authenticator app as a two-step verification method
Note: If you receive a prompt asking whether to allow the app to access your camera (iOS) or to allow the app to take pictures and record video (Android). select Allow so the authenticator app can access your camera to take a picture of the QR code in the next step.If you don't allow the camera, you can still set up the authenticator app as described in Manually add an account to the app.
Use voice recognition in Windows - Microsoft Support
Tip: If you've already set up speech recognition, pressing Windows logo key +Ctrl+S opens speech recognition and you're ready to use it. If you want to retrain your computer to recognize your voice, press the Windows logo key , type Control Panel, and select Control Panel in the list of results. In Control Panel, select Ease of Access > Speech Recognition > Train your computer to better ...
How to perform a clean boot in Windows - Microsoft Support
How to determine what is causing the problem after you do a clean boot. If your problem does not occur while the computer is in a clean boot environment, then you can determine which startup application or service is causing the problem by systematically turning them on or off and restarting the computer.