Registering your Microsoft device. Before you can check your warranty or get service, you may need register your Surface or Xbox to your account. For help registering your Surface or Xbox, see Manage devices used with your Microsoft account or Getting your Xbox device serviced. Check your Microsoft warranty

Click into the Add members field to select people in your school organization.Note: You can select one of your existing groups, like a class or staff group, and add all those members into your new group. No permissions or videos from those groups carry over to the new one, you just get to add everyone at once.

If you want Microsoft Defender to tell you if we find a threat, you'll need to allow us to send you notifications on your device. Run in the background Note: If you already allowed Microsoft Defender to run in the background for web protection, you won't be asked for this permission again.

If your device doesn't support BitLocker, you may be able to use Windows Device Encryption instead. To see if you can use Windows device encryption In the search box on the taskbar, type System Information , right-click System Information in the list of results, then select Run as administrator .

To enable the achievement tracker: Press the Xbox button to open the guide.; Select Game activity > Achievements, and then select the toggle switch to enable the Achievement tracker.; Select the Settings icon, if you’re not prompted automatically by the console, to determine where you’d like the tracker to be on your screen. You can also adjust the number of achievements that are displayed ...

Tips: If you don't see the OneDrive icon, OneDrive might not be running. On a PC, go to Start, type OneDrive in the search box, and then click OneDrive in the search results. You might need to click the Show hidden icons arrow next to the notification area to see the OneDrive icons. On a Mac, use Spotlight to search for OneDrive and open it.

Kids Mode is a convenient browsing mode inside Microsoft Edge that’s designed for kids. With its kid-friendly features and safety guardrails in place, Kids Mode is a great place for children to safely explore the web.

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Chat: If you wish to guarantee Chat is turned off for a given PC, you can do so by mapping www.bing.com to either Nochat.bing.com (which will lock Chat as turned off for the given PC) or Nochatstrict.bing.com (which will lock Chat as turned off for the given PC and the SafeSearch setting as locked to strict), by following the same steps as outlined above but in step 6, pinging either “nochat ...

Microsoft Edge uses it to provide browser history results in the address bar. Outlook uses it to search your email. Cortana uses it to provide faster search results from across your PC. Many apps in the Microsoft Store also depend on the index to provide up-to-date search results for your files and other content. Disabling indexing will result ...