With his combination of technical knowledge and writing talent, he is able to create clear, accurate, and engaging content that helps users get the most out of their technology. In Windows 11, even if you copy other folders into those containers, they won’t be backed up. This turns a general-purpose backup tool (for user folders, anyway) in Windows 10 into something more focused and specific in Windows 11. My trimming method cuts the size of each snapshot from over 300GB to a much more manageable 1.5GB on my target disk. That leaves a LOT more room on the target drive for saving snapshots, too. In the next section, I’ll describe how to exclude folders from your snapshot contents. Microsoft recommends, and I concur, that File History works best when it targets an external storage device (such as a USB drive, preferably an SSD or hard disk of 100GB or greater capacity).

• Even if you need to uninstall something later, a few registry entries — or even a lot of registry entries — won’t cause a slow down.
• Still available in both Windows 10 and 11, it can help you make sure you never lose an important file.
• In the future, if you want to re-enable the lock screen n your Windows 10 PC, either delete the NoLockScreen DWORD value from the Registry Editor or set the NoLockScreen DWORD value to 0.
• Virtual memory links the same page of physical memory to different programs’ virtual addresses — also known as address space — as different processes are run.

File Explorer lets you remove your search history, and in this guide, we’ll show you the steps to complete this task. If you don’t want File Explorer to store your recent file and folder history, then uncheck both checkboxes under the Privacy section and click on the “Ok” button to save the changes. To start, open File Explorer using the “Win + E” shortcut, and then select “Options” from the “View” tab.

How To Clean Registry in Windows 10 and 11 safely

In her spare times, she likes shopping, playing games and reading some articles. This wikiHow teaches you how to register a DLL file, which creates a path from the file to the Windows registry.

You could also simply rename the file in the same directory by giving it a different extension. Copy the new DLL to the directory that contains the renamed DLL.

Deleting the values under the WordWheelQuery key will not damage your system, so click “Yes” to confirm the deletion of the value. Alternatively, you can also clear the list of recent searches in File Explorer using the Registry.

Next, right-click on the address bar and select Delete History. This should clear all the address bar history from File Explorer. If you don’t want to clear your history all the time, you can completely disable it from keeping track of your searches. On Windows 10 Pro, you can turn off search history in Group Policy, but for Windows 10 Home, you need to do a bit of tweaking in the Registry.

How to prevent DLL file error?

This takes just a couple of minutes, but requires Windows 10 Pro or higher. After restarting the system, the modified policy is fully enabled. From this point onwards, no user on the system can lock Windows. To revert the change, set the policy status to “Not configured” in step 6. In a previous article https://windll.com/dll/microsoft-corporation/kernel32, we showed you how to disable the Windows 10 lock screen by tweaking a key in the Windows Registry File.