Battery Life: Lowering your refresh rate can save battery power by reducing the amount of energy your display consumes.This can be useful when you are using a laptop or tablet and want to extend your battery life.

Here's how to change the size of text, images, and apps in Windows. To change your display in Windows, select Start > Settings > Accessibility > Text size.To make only the text on your screen larger, adjust the slider next to Text size.To make everything larger, including images and apps, select Display , and then choose an option from the drop-down menu next to Scale.

In most cases, all you have to do to set up a scanner is to connect it to your device. Plug the USB cable from your scanner into an available USB port on your device, and turn the scanner on.

To pin apps to the taskbar. Select Start , select the arrow next to All apps, right-click the app, then select More > Pin to taskbar.

The recommended (and easiest) way to get SP1 is to turn on automatic updating in Windows Update in Control Panel and wait for Windows 7 to notify you that SP1 is ready to install.

The files on your OneDrive are private until you share them. Keep in mind that when you share folders with Edit permissions, people you share with can add the shared folders to their own OneDrive.. This lets them keep the folder alongside their own folders and items, easily move items between folders, and more easily work on it offline.

When you get a new device and start up Windows 10 for the first time, the antivirus protection that comes installed with the device is your default security app.

Website notifications appear in the lower right corner of your screen and are also displayed in the Notification Center.When notifications are turned on for a website, they will still appear even if Microsoft Edge is closed.

Track and print results. When you create and send an email with voting buttons to others, you may want to track and print the results. You can either quickly copy the voting results into a blank Word document or a new email, or copy them into Excel so you can work with the data later.

Learn how to manage extensions in Microsoft Edge, including adding, disabling, or removing them as needed.