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TAKE PRECAUTIONS

We’re entering potentially risk territory with some of these tips. Therefore, make sure you have some kind of system backup in place – either a rollback option like System Restore or Rollback Rx or an up-to-date drive image using Macrium Reflect Free (www.macrium. com/reflectfree.aspx). Done that? Good, let’s move on…

CUSTOMISE LOCK SCREEN

Can’t tweak the lock screen to your satisfaction using the options under Settings > Personalisation > ‘Lock screen’? Check the ‘Boot and Logon’ section of Winaero Tweaker for options, like not automatically selecting the last logged-on user

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