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How do I Stop Website Notifications in Microsoft Edge?

November 11, 2025 / Dave Taylor / Windows PC Help / No Comments
How to manage and block website notifications in Microsoft Edge for Windows

I share my PC with my mom and I don’t know what she does but we get a lot of notifications from different websites. They all have the Microsoft Edge icon in the notification window, so are they from Edge? In any case, how can I disable them?

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Some Ways to Circumvent Ad Blocker and Subscription Paywalls

November 3, 2025 / Dave Taylor / Computer & Internet Basics / 1 Comment
How to bypass pay walls and add blocker blocks in popular web browsers like Microsoft Edge

Ever gone to a website just to have it complain that it can’t display the page because you aren’t a subscriber? Or, even more commonly, to have it refuse to show you the content because you have an “ad blocker” running? In both cases there are ways to try to get around the problem. Let’s look at some of the basics…

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How to Use Copilot to Analyze Photos in Microsoft Edge

September 16, 2025 / Dave Taylor / Amazon, eBay, and Online Shopping Help / No Comments
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I’m an avid Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace bargain hunter and would like to use Copilot in Edge to analyze listings. Is that possible? Mostly I’m interested in collections rather than individual items.

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Can I Play Wordsearch Within the Microsoft Edge Web Browser?

August 18, 2025 / Dave Taylor / Microsoft Outlook and Office 365 Help / No Comments
msn.com games apps in microsoft edge how to find, install, play word search puzzle

I work as a temp receptionist and so am constantly using different computers. A lot of time it’s boring so I like to play games and puzzles. I can’t use my phone, so I’m wondering, can I play puzzles like word search in a web browser instead?

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How to Remove Copilot AI from Windows and Microsoft Edge

August 12, 2025 / Dave Taylor / Windows PC Help / No Comments
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Dave, I know you’re a fan of AI, but I hate it. I would like to remove it entirely from my Windows PC. Is that possible? Running Windows 11 on a relatively new Dell laptop.

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How to Utilize “Secure Network” VPN within Microsoft Edge

August 11, 2025 / Dave Taylor / Microsoft Outlook and Office 365 Help / No Comments
microsoft secure network VPN in Microsoft edge - how to enable use secure DNS considerations security

One of the great enhancements of the Web over the last few years is the migration to full-time SSL secure connections. Just about every site you visit nowadays – including AskDaveTaylor – utilizes a secure connection for your privacy. But if that’s not enough, you can also tap into the even more secure Virtual Private Network built into Microsoft Edge…

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Is There a Way to Pin Favorite Websites to the Taskbar?

July 1, 2025 / Dave Taylor / Windows PC Help / No Comments
windows 11 edge how to add favorite website favicon icon to win11 taskbar

I’m all about shortcuts and convenience, and love lots about Windows 11. I can drop Website favorites onto my Desktop, but is there a way to add a few to the Taskbar itself? That’d be really helpful!

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How to Easily Summarize the Contents of a Web Page

February 28, 2025 / Dave Taylor / AI and ChatGPT Help / No Comments
summarize web page in browser or by URL on a Mac with Edge/Copilot/ChatGPT

I have to analyze a lot of Web pages as part of my job and am wondering if there’s any way to have that feature within my browser? I’m on a reasonably new iMac, but it’s not the latest generation M-series chip. What are my options?

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How to Use Copilot Vision Gen AI within Microsoft Edge

February 14, 2025 / Dave Taylor / AI and ChatGPT Help / No Comments
copilot vision in microsoft edge mac windows - how to enable get started using genai ai voice

It’s not news that AI is hot nowadays, but integrating it into our daily tools in a way that’s actually useful is still a work in progress. Are they listening for a key phrase to be utterred, or a floating button waiting to be clicked? With the release of Copilot Vision, Microsoft offers a different way for its smarter GenAI system Copilot to be tightly integrated into Microsoft Edge, and therefore your daily Web browsing adventures. Here’s how it works…

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Quick and Easy Way to Customize Edge New Tab Background?

September 24, 2024 / Dave Taylor / Windows PC Help / No Comments
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I’ve been assuming that Microsoft Edge just had a generic grey background for all newly opened tab windows, but a friend has a pretty wild sportscar image. How’d they do that? How can I customize the wallpaper or background image on blank windows in Microsoft Edge?

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