The privacy dashboard provides tools to view and clear this data and to manage your privacy settings for the products you use. Data that appears on the dashboard can include data related to your Bing and Cortana searches, Microsoft Edge browsing, and location, voice, media, and apps and services activity. Once you clear your data, we'll delete ...

Cortana voice assistance in Windows as a standalone app was retired in the spring of 2023. Additionally, Cortana in Teams mobile, Microsoft Teams display, Microsoft Teams Rooms, Outlook mobile, and Microsoft 365 mobile was retired in the fall of 2023. In June of 2024, we will be retiring the voice search and the Play My Emails feature in ...

How to block pop-ups in Microsoft Edge. In Edge, go to Settings and more at the top of your browser. Select Settings > Cookies and site permissions. Under All permissions, select Pop-ups and redirects. Turn on the Block (recommended) toggle. When this feature is turned on and a pop-up has been blocked, Edge will display the following image in ...

In your email invite, select Join the meeting now. Continue on this browser: Join a Teams meeting on the web. Open your Teams app: If you already have the Teams app, go right to your meeting. Type your name. Choose your audio and video settings. Select Join now. Depending on meeting settings, you'll get in right away, or go to a lobby where ...

Indexing is the process of looking at files, email messages, and other content on your PC and cataloging their information, such as the words and metadata in them. When you search your PC after indexing, it looks at an index of terms to find results faster. When you first run indexing, it can take up to a couple hours to complete.

Turn on Windows backup. To turn on Windows backup and choose your backup settings, select Start > Settings > Accounts > Windows backup. Open Windows backup settings. The following items can be backed up: OneDrive folder syncing. Turn on OneDrive folder syncing to start backing up your files and folders right from Settings.

How to redeem a gift card, Xbox download code or token. Both Microsoft and Xbox gift cards and download codes and tokens work the same way: once redeemed to your Microsoft account, you can spend your balance at Microsoft Store online, on Windows or Xbox, and you can get downloads for the latest apps, games, movies, TV shows, and Surface, Xbox, and accessories.

To review the data types you can import from Internet Explorer: In Microsoft Edge, go to Settings and more > Settings > Profiles > Import browser data. Under the Import from other browsers section, select Choose what to import and then choose Microsoft Internet Explorer from the list under Import from. Under Choose what to import you'll ...

If you trust a file, file type, folder, or a process that Windows Security has detected as malicious, you can stop Windows Security from alerting you or blocking the program by adding the file to the exclusions list.

Uninstall an app in Microsoft Edge. Open Microsoft Edge and go to edge://apps. Select Details on the card of the application you wish to uninstall. Scroll down and choose Uninstall. Confirm if you also want to clear data from the associated origin and select Remove.