Disk Management in Windows helps you perform advanced storage tasks like initializing a new drive and extending or shrinking volumes. Here’s some info on things you can do using Disk Management: Initialize a new drive. Extend a basic volume. Shrink a basic volume. Change a drive letter. Troubleshoot Disk Management.

Open Device Manager. Windows 10. In the search box on the taskbar, type device manager, then select Device Manager from the menu. Was this information helpful?

Create and format a hard disk partition. To create a partition or volume (the two terms are often used interchangeably) on a hard disk, you must be logged in as an administrator, and there must be either unallocated disk space or free space within an extended partition on the hard disk.

Install and use a scanner in Windows 10. When you connect a scanner to your device or add a new scanner to your home network, you can usually start scanning pictures and documents right away. If your scanner doesn't automatically install, here's some help to get things working.

Select File > Get Add-ins. Alternatively, you can also view your add-ins directly from the Home tab by selecting Add-ins . You can directly install add-ins from this page or select More Add-ins to explore. In the Office Add-ins dialog, select My Add-ins tab.

OneDrive is built into Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, so you can’t uninstall it like an app. However, you can hide it and stop syncing OneDrive files to your PC. To do so, follow the steps in. In Windows 10, OneDrive is the default save location for your files and documents.

To create the best command-line experience, PowerShell is now the command shell for File Explorer. It replaces Command Prompt (cmd.exe) in the Windows Logo Key + X menu, in File Explorer' s File menu, and in the context menu that appears when you shift-right-click the whitespace in File Explorer.

Click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click Speech. On the Text-to-Speech tab, click Audio Output. Select either Use preferred audio output device or Use this audio output device. Use preferred audio device sets the output device as the default for the system.

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For general help, visit Microsoft Support. On this page you can find links to accessibility help articles that are written for people who use screen readers with different Windows features and apps such as text suggestions, Game Bar, and Feedback Hub. Text suggestions. Enable text suggestions in Windows. Game Bar.