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Scheduled, not reactive How-To Geek's Arol Wright repairs the component store with DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth, restores protected system files from it with sfc /scannow, and wires the pair into Task Scheduler with highest privileges, the SYSTEM account, and a Conditions rule that keeps the scans on mains power, leaving Quick Machine Recovery under Settings, System, Recovery for the boot failures, with the limits said out loud: SFC needs DISM to have run first, a repair can take from several minutes to much longer, and Quick Machine Recovery is built for widespread outages and needs a network connection to reach its fix.

Five settings, one sitting How-To Geek's Tony Phillips opens unrelated files in separate Excel instances by holding Alt and right-clicking the icon so one undo cannot reach into another workbook, teaches the fill handle the alphabet by adding A to Z under File, Options, Advanced, Edit Custom Lists, unchecks Allow editing directly in cells so a long formula stops covering the cells you are trying to select, opens a second window on the same workbook from View, New Window so Alt+Tab moves between worksheets, and presses F2 when the arrow keys start inserting cell references instead of moving the cursor.

Four tiles became a panel Android Police's Jon Gilbert minimizes the tile size so a long press opens each tile's secondary action, removes the ones never tapped (Alarm, Wallet, Device controls, Cast), adds the native TV remote, Focus mode, and VPN tiles, installs the free Toolkit Tiles app for everything Android does not ship, and hands the multi-step routines to MacroDroid or Tasker, with the result reported honestly: the Temperature tile refused to work and the Level stopped after a few seconds on a Pixel 10 Pro, while both behaved on a Galaxy Tab S9 FE.

Save it where search works Android Police's Anu Joy switches on Google Workspace under Gemini's Personal Intelligence, Connected Apps, closes a useful conversation by typing Summarize this chat and add it to Google Keep, and gets a Keep note of the key points carrying a Gemini tag that links back to the original thread, then searches Keep rather than the chat list later, because asking Gemini to hunt through its own history went in the wrong direction and came back saying it could not find anything.