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Turn off your system. Remove the power cord and disconnect all the peripherals. Disconnect the charger if it is a laptop. Press and hold the power button for up to 30 seconds. Turn on your system.

Microsoft's default settings for Windows are designed to be helpful to the average person, but that's exactly what makes the defaults so unusable for most people. Because not one of us is average, and ...