How To Set Default Location Of Your PC In Windows 11 [Tutorial]
18How To Set Default Location Of Your PC In Windows 11 [Tutorial]
The location data is used by various Windows services and third party apps to provide you country-specific information. For example, a news app can show you local news, and a weather app can utilize location information to provide you the actual weather forecast.
Several apps and services in Windows 11 and Windows 10 require access to your location in order to impart Location-based services. However, sometimes things can go wrong, and location discovery may break causing the apps and services to fail in fetching your current location. Keeping in mind such circumstances, you can set the default location which can be used when apps and services are not able to pinpoint your current location correctly
When you run an app in Windows 11, you may need a location for the app to run properly, or to produce relevant information for you. Windows 11 tries to find your device's location, but it may fail to get one. To cope with these situations, Windows 11 has introduced a Default location that directs the Windows apps and services when Windows can't detect a more exact location for your PC. Setting your default location is easy as pie, as you will see in this guide:
To make your applications more useful and tailored to you, setting your physical location is paramount. You will then be able to receive news of what’s going on around you, be able to find places e.g. restaurants near you among other services. There are several other apps that could use your location information to make your Windows 11 experience better. These include Cortana, Weather, Maps, News and others. Without the correct physical location for these apps, they turn out to be useless and a waste of space.
Some apps need to know when you’re in a specific location to work correctly. For instance, if you’ve asked an app to remind you to buy bread when you’re in the grocery store, the app will need to know when you’re in the store. To give you maps to get you where you’re going, or to show you lists of shops or restaurants near you, many apps and services request location information from your device. That’s what the Windows 11 location service does: tells your apps and services where you are or where you’ve been, so that you can get info more relevant to you.
There has been an error associated with the physical location of Windows PC. Users keep getting a notification message swinging out from the right side of the screen asking them to ‘Set the default location of your PC,’ but when clicked on nothing happens. The message furthermore says, “We’ll use it when we can’t detect your exact location (like right now)!” Further diagnosis shows that the app is using the wrong location for the said PC. The location could be a few miles to hundreds of miles away, thus the information returned by the news, weather and maps apps are irrelevant. This tutorial will delve into the reasons for such an error and how it can be cleared.
Issues addressed in this tutorial:
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location windows 11
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This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops, and tablets running the Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems (Home, Professional, Enterprise, Education) from all supported hardware manufactures, like Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, Alienware, Razer, MSI, Huawei , Microsoft Surface, and Samsung.