In Windows 10 and Windows 11, when you log into an app (e.g. Teams) with your Microsoft Online account, you might get a pop-up: Stay signed in to all your apps You will have a big OK button to accept this or a small link saying "No, sign in to this app only". If you click on the OK button, all Apps that use a Microsoft Online account will now be logged in with the account. In addition, Windows tries to do a Workplace Join to Azure. So in most cases, clicking OK does more bad than good. To prevent Read more [...]

If you need to change the background color of your Windows 11 desktop via Registry, it can be done like this:

Start Regedit.exe and go to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors

Change the "Background" entry to the color you want. E.g. "255 255 255" for white.

Windows 11 brings a new version of the context menus (the ones that appear when you right-click on a folder, for example). They contain less items, so this can be quite annoying. If you want to bring back the behaviour from Windows 10, do either of the following: Open the Command Prompt (admin) and run the “reg add “HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32″ /f /ve” command Open the Registry in the “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\CLSID” Read more [...]