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VIVETOOL AND WINDOWS 10 OR 11 github.com/PeterStrick/ViVeTool-GUI

WINDOWS IS BEING CONSTANTLY DEVELOPED, and Microsoft makes new beta features available on a rolling basis. However, many are available only to Windows Insiders signed up to preview versions. The good news is that you can often enable these features yourself. One of the easiest ways to do this is with ViVeTool.

Here, we’ll show you how to download pre-release versions of Windows and use ViVeTool to enable features. Before starting, make a backup of your system. The features that ViVeTool can activate are experimental, so proceed with caution.

–NIK RAWLINSON

1 SIGN UP FOR WINDOWS INSIDER First, you need to turn on optional diagnostic data in Windows. Press Windows key+I to open Settings, then in Windows 10, click Privacy (or ‘Privacy & security’ in Windows 11), followed by ‘Diagnostics & feedback’. Now, make sure the slider in the ‘Send optional diagnostic data’ section is on [Image A] . Once that’s done, click Windows Update on the left, followed by Windows Insider Programme in the main part of the window. Next, click the blue ‘Get started’ button, followed by ‘Link an account’. Select your Microsoft account in the box that appears, then click Continue, and choose which ‘channel’ you want to sign up to.