This tip mostly applies to gamers who buy monitors with above-average refresh rates.
Now, you can tweak your monitor’s refresh rate in Windows 10’s Settings hub (System > Display > Advanced Display Settings). Before now, you needed to adjust your frame rate by diving into the Device Manager’s arcane settings, or using software provided by Nvidia or AMD if you had a compatible graphics card. It’s taken endless iterations and dozens of years, but as of the October 2020 Update, Windows 10’s display settings finally let you adjust your monitor’s refresh rate. You can deactivate Timeline by heading to Settings > Privacy > Activity History. That includes Office, Adobe’s Creative Cloud, and native Windows 10 apps like News and Maps, as well as Microsoft Edge and Google’s Chrome browser (after you install a Microsoft extension). The fly in the ointment: Only a limited number of apps work with Timeline, though Microsoft offers tools for developers to bake in support. This even syncs across devices so it could be especially useful if you use multiple PCs, though Microsoft sadly plans to kill Timeline’s cross-device syncing soon. Even more handily, Microsoft lets you group related apps together into “Activities” in Timeline, so that when you open that week-old budget document, for example, the presentations and websites you referenced at the time can be easily summoned as well. Clicking the Task View button in the taskbar or pressing Windows Key + Tab summons the feature, which displays a-you guessed it-time line of your activity in supported apps, stretching back over the past. Timeline helps you pick up where you left off. Windows 10 also has a dedicated Gaming section in its Start menu Settings to let you tinker with options, including Xbox networking and parental controls.
The Game Bar’s handy even if you don’t actually play, as it can be used to record video of any app-not just games. It’s great, and the May 2020 Update added more helpful features in the form of a frame rate counter and GPU temperature monitoring.
The now-customizable interface packs a performance widget, an audio widget with system-wide and per-app controls, a Discord-like interface for Xbox Live friends, a photo gallery, and even full Spotify integration. Better yet, the May 2019 Update transformed it into a full blown overlay that does stuff no rivals offer. It’s always been able to take screenshots or videos of gameplay clips, but it also offers easy-peasy Beam game streaming and the intriguing Game Mode. If you’re into playing around on your PC, Windows 10’s Game Bar-summoned by pressing Windows + G in-game-holds all sorts of nifty extras.
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