Windows Help and Advice - USA (2019-06)

2 Choose colour settings

While it’s tempting to preserve sepia

tints in older photos, choose the greyscale

option from your scanner’s colour settings to

deliver a more vibrant scan – you can always

tint it back again afterwards using an image

editor such as Adobe Photoshop Elements.

1 Set preview

Open your scanning tool and click

Preview. Use the selection tool to crop

around the photo – the scanner will

automatically adjust its lighting settings

to adapt to the photo, ensuring a better-

quality scan.

IMPROVEDYOUR
SCANNEDPHOTOS

Q I have a load of old photos to
scan in – some of them are
quite small. What’s the best way to
blow them up and preserve as
much quality as possible?
GregoryDahl

Cat’s solution
The following step-by-
step guide is based
around Dell’s scanning
tools, but other scanner makers
provide similar controls – and in
some cases, better ones too,
particularly when adjusting lighting
and colour balance.

Quickfirequestions

Better still, once the May Update

is in place Windows 10 Home users

will also gain the ability to pause

non-feature updates up to five

times for seven days (so holding

back for up to 35 days) before the

update must be applied.

Hardware

CLONINGHELP

Q I need to clone my hard drive

before it fails. I’ve purchased a

new 1TB drive, but how do I attach

it to my PC to be able to clone the

old drive to it?

JohnAndrews

Ian’s solution

The easiest option for a

2.5-inch drive would be

a simple SATA III-to-USB

cable (on sale for £3-£4 online) –

just connect it to the new drive and

plug it into a spare port before

cloning using Macrium Reflect Free.

A 3.5-inch drive requires something

beefier with its own independent

When I go to change my lock

screen settings, it tells me

some settings are disabled

because of administrative

policies. How do I fix this?

Keith Furnell

Open Ultimate Windows

Tweake r (https://bit.ly/uwt-10),

and go to the Customization >

Universal UI tab. Then, untick

either ‘Disable Lock Screen’ or

‘Disable Changing Lock

Screen Image’.

After double-clicking an ISO

file to access its contents, how

do I remove it from my PC?

Louise Harris

Open a File Explorer window

and select This PC in the

left-hand pane. Right-click the

virtual drive and choose Eject

to unmount it.

I was recently forced to disable

my Surface 2’s ambient light

sensor driver to fix a memory

leak. How do I resolve this?

Anthony Parlance

Install the latest version of the

Ambient Light Sensor driver

(v4.1.139.0) through Windows

Update – this should

automatically re-enable the

driver but go to Device

Manager > System Devices

to check; but if it hasn’t been,

right-click it and choose

‘Enable device’.

same collection. Once complete,

right-click the audiobook title in

Music view and choose Album Info,

clicking Edit Items when prompted

to edit multiple items. Switch to

Options and change Media Kind to

Audiobook. Import cover art via

Artwork and go to Sorting to verify

the correct author has been

attributed before clicking OK.

The only slight complication is if

some (or all) of the chapters in an

audiobook have been split into

separate tracks on the CD. In this

case you’ll need to select the

individual tracks you want to

combine before you rip the disc. To

do that, select the tracks you want

to combine (to make up one

chapter, say), then select Join CD

Tracks from the drop-down menu.

WindowsUpdate

NOMORE

FORCEDUPDATES

Q

Afterbeingplaguedwith

issuesbythemostrecent

majorWindows 10 update,howcan

poorWindows 10 Homeuserslike

myselfavoidfallingintotrapslaid

bythenextfeatureupdate?

AlanFleet

Rob’s solution

We have excellent news

for you, Alan: Microsoft

has finally accepted it

cannot simply push these major

updates on to Windows 10 Home

users. When the 1903 ‘May Update’

is finally ready to install on your PC,

instead of it being forced on you

you’ll see a notification under

Settings > Updates & Security >

Windows Update inviting you to

‘Download and install now’, but

only when you’re ready. You’ll only

be forced to update when your

current version reaches ‘end of life’

• around 18 months from its
  original release.

PASSWORD

RECOVERY

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resolve Microsoft

account lockouts.

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