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How to Refresh Microsoft Teams

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Whether your messages aren’t synching or you have trouble locating new files, refreshing Microsoft Teams helps fix these and other minor app problems. Doing so doesn’t delete your account data, and you can refresh your app in a few easy steps. We’ll show you how to do that in Teams on your Windows 11 or Windows 10 computer. A few other reasons to refresh Teams are that you’re experiencing issues with the app, new contacts aren’t appearing in the app, the sidebar isn’t displaying all your chats, and more. What Refreshing Microsoft Teams Does Note that Teams doesn’t offer a dedicated option to refresh your chats. You can only refresh your files in the app, which forces Teams to load all the available files in your chats. Other methods like fully closing and relaunching the app and deleting the app’s cached files force Teams to reload many app components, possibly fixing the app’s various problems . How to Refresh Microsoft Teams To begin refreshing Teams, use the methods in the o

How to Reset Display Settings in Windows

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Changing your PC’s display settings might not always give you the results you’re looking for. You might end up with a weird screen resolution, text that’s too large, or colors that don’t look right. A simple fix is to reset your display settings to how they were before. Windows 11 does not have a one-click option to factory reset all display-related preferences, but it’s pretty easy to manually restore the most important settings to their defaults. Reset the Display Resolution If your Windows screen looks off, with items appearing too big, too small, or blurry, the display resolution is likely to blame. Falling back to the operating system’s recommended resolution should allow for a better viewing experience. To do that: Right-click the Start button and select Settings . Go to System > Display . Open the pull-down menu next to Display resolution and select the recommended resolution for your display. Note : If nothing happens when you attempt to change re

How to Rollback or Uninstall NVIDIA Drivers in Windows 11

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Keeping your video drivers up-to-date is crucial for optimizing performance in Windows 11. But there are also rare instances where an update might create graphical anomalies in applications, produce choppy FPS (frames per second) in games, or affect the operating system’s stability. If a driver update to your NVIDIA graphics card is causing problems, you should revert to an earlier version during routine troubleshooting. This tutorial will show you how to roll back or uninstall NVIDIA drivers in Microsoft Windows. Rollback NVIDIA Driver in Device Manager Suppose you began experiencing issues immediately after updating your NVIDIA video card drivers. In that case, you can use the Device Manager in Windows 11 to revert to the driver version you were on before. Here’s how: Right-click the Start button and open Device Manager . Expand the Display adapters section. Right-click your NVIDIA GPU—e.g., NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 —and select Properties . Go to the Driver

Bitdefender vs Windows Defender: Which One’s Best for Your PC?

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Beating long-standing industry names like Mcafee and Norton, Bitdefender has emerged as the top third-party antivirus software. But how does it stand up against the default Windows Defender? Let’s find out. This is an especially pertinent question in the age of the improved Windows Defender, where most basic antivirus capabilities like updating virus definitions and a firewall are already covered by it. So is it still worth getting a premium antivirus option like the Bitdefender? Bitdefender vs Windows Defender Bitdefender is an excellent antivirus utility with many advanced features and capabilities not possessed by the default Windows Defender. But that does not necessarily mean that Bitdefender is the better option – unless you really need those additional benefits, Windows Defender might be all that you need. The differences between the two boil down to the fact that Bitdefender offers an entire suite of cybersecurity protections, not just an antivirus program. This include