People notifications. Keep track of the status of your colleagues and contacts, and get notified when they appear available or offline. Select Manage notifications, then enter the name or names of the contacts you want to keep track of. Select the correct contact (s) from the list. You'll see those contacts appear below the text box.

What is: Multifactor Authentication. When you sign into your online accounts - a process we call "authentication" - you're proving to the service that you are who you say you are. Traditionally that's been done with a username and a password. Unfortunately, that's not a very good way to do it. Usernames are often easy to discover; sometimes ...

Zip and unzip files. Zipped (compressed) files take up less storage space and can be transferred to other computers more quickly than uncompressed files. In Windows, you work with zipped files and folders in the same way that you work with uncompressed files and folders. Combine several files into a single zipped folder to more easily share a ...

Add or delete boxes in your flow chart. Add a box. Click the SmartArt graphic that you want to add a box to. Click the existing box that is located closest to where you want to add the new box. On the Design tab, in the Create Graphic group, click the arrow next to Add Shape. If you don't see the Design tab, make sure that you've selected the ...

About Microsoft Authenticator. Microsoft Authenticator is a free app that helps you sign in to all your accounts without using a password - just use a fingerprint, face recognition, or a PIN. You can use Authenticator to sign in to your Microsoft personal, work, school or other accounts. Authenticator can be used three ways:

To pin your favorite apps to the Start menu, select and hold (or right-click) the app you want to pin. Then select Pin to Start . To group your apps into folders, simply drag an app on top of another with mouse or touch or highlight the app with your keyboard and use the Ctrl + Shift + < Left or Right arrow > keyboard shortcut.

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 ...

For help with your Microsoft account and subscriptions, visit Account & Billing Help. For technical support, go to Contact Microsoft Support, enter your problem and select Get Help. If you still need help, select Contact Support to be routed to the best support option. Admins should view Help for OneDrive Admins, the OneDrive Tech Community or ...

Select the Start button , and then select Control Panel. In the search box, type Performance Information and Tools, and then, in the list of results, select Performance Information and Tools. Select View and print detailed performance and system information. In the System section, you can see what type of operating system you're currently ...

The exception to this is if you turn off the setting that disables all non-essential connected experiences. The service that roams your privacy settings across devices is also turned off by that switch, so when that setting is off your settings will not roam to, or from, that particular device.