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.

Find it. To get to This PC in Windows 10, open File Explorer from the taskbar and select This PC in the left pane.. Pin it to Start. If you want This PC to show up in your Start menu, open File Explorer, right-click (or press and hold) This PC in the left pane, and then select Pin to Start. Now, there's a This PC tile on the Start menu.

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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.

May 2024. Use Copilot after meetings. Ask Copilot questions about a transcribed meeting on your mobile device after it ends. Just tap the meeting on your Teams Calendar and tap Details or Recap.This is available in Teams Premium or a Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. To learn more, see Get started with Copilot in Microsoft Teams meetings.. Change your background while recording

There are a few common scenarios in which Windows running on a PC might be discovered to be non-genuine during validation. Repairs. If your PC has been repaired, you might start to see messages on your desktop that Windows isn't genuine.

If you want to secure your content and get a link that only works for the people you invite, select Specific people in Link settings when creating the sharing link.. The recipients' experience depends on the settings you select when creating the sharing link, and the account they use to view the file.

To change notification settings for individual senders, under Get notifications from these senders, turn a notification sender either on or off—or select a sender's name and then turn on or turn off notification banners, lock screen privacy, turn notification sounds on or off, and set the priority of notifications.

Important: If your device is out of support, it is no longer receiving security updates from Microsoft and may become more vulnerable to security risks and viruses.For this reason, we strongly recommend that you update to the latest version of Windows. Each version of Windows is supported for 18 months.

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.