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When using your PC, sometimes you will need to quickly change a setting, but you probably don't want to look through the menus or the entire Windows Settings app to change them. Then, Quick Settings in Windows 11 is exactly what you need. We load Windows 11 Insider Preview for an early look.
To enter the Quick Settings menu in Windows 11, all you need to do is click on a set of status icons (Wi-Fi, speaker and battery in our example) in the lower right corner of the screen. It's located just to the left of the date and time on the taskbar. Or you can press Windows + A on the keyboard (what is the shortcut of the Action Center in Windows 10).
Once you click on it, a small menu with rounded corners will instantly appear. Includes buttons that allow you to quickly connect or disconnect Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, one button for airplane mode, battery saving, focus assist, accessibility and night light (that changes the color temperature of the screen) by default.
In addition there is a volume slider and a screen brightness slider, a small battery charge indicator (on the corresponding devices) and a quick link to Windows settings (a little gear).
For menu items such as Accessibility that have secondary options, if you click your main button, the Quick Settings menu will change to include the new options. A back button in the upper left corner will take you back to the normal Quick Settings screen.
To change the content of the Quick Settings menu, click on a little pencil icon in the lower right corner of the menu.
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If you add them all, the Quick Settings menu will expand vertically to accommodate the new buttons.
To close the Quick Settings menu, click outside the menu area on the screen or press Escape. Toggling the menu by clicking the Quick Settings button area on the taskbar does not work consistently, but this could be a bug in Windows Preview 11 Insider we are using here.
Even so, things look good so far, and Quick Settings will likely continue to improve over time as Windows 11 gets closer to its eventual release. Here is the hope!
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