I've just recalled a tip for desktop icons: Hold Control + Mouse scroll up/down It will change desktop icons size. If you do the that shortcut in a file explorer, it will cycle through different views (small icons, large icons, list, details, mosaics, etc.). It also works for doing zoom in apps like browsers, Word, Excel, etc.
That's was awesome video especially the (Window + ;) for the emoji menu. I used it to make my clock more customizable by adding 2 different emojis to The AM and PM symbols, so my clock on the Taskbar looks like this: 07:54:02 AM 🌞 03:21:09 PM 🌚 You can't edit this from the normal Settings. You have to go to Control Panel > Region > Additional settings... > Time > then look for the ( AM symbol: PM symbol: ) and add or modify whatever you want, and this a none destructive way that there is a Reset button in case you did something you don't like! Thanks for the nice tips. Have a great day 😊
I love your show, especially the tips shows. I've been tech side on PCs since the 1980s, and editing Windows registries since Windows 2.1. I still learn things from you. I just wish you put chapters on shows like this. There are some especially useful shows that I save to a playlist, and it'd be great to be able to get immediately to the segment I need.
Shift+Shutdown is a special command that triggers a full shutdown of the computer in Windows 10/11. It is different than a regular shutdown in that it clears all the cached information and completely powers down the system.
Ok, not having control panel and getting it back just saved me HOURS of time. I have 27 items I had no idea where there most are proprietary Dell but I just fixed a Bluetooth issue in 15 seconds
Thank you, Rich! These videos are great fun to watch, and I love learning/re-learning things for the OS. A lot of these I totally forgot about, and the middle mouse button one is completely new to me. If you hit the keyboard combo Windows + D it's the hotkey combo for show/hide desktop. That way you don't have to frantically search for the taskbar button while getting caught looking at things you don't want people to know about. 😉 On my system, since I'm using an Elecom Huge trackball with extra buttons, I have the emojis panel, and the snip tool set to macros for quick use. As far as getting the control panel, one really neat option is a reg edit you can install that will allow it to be put into your context menu. All you do is right click desktop, and it'll be in the list of entries you can click on. Super helpful if you need it quickly, and don't wanna piss about with the start menu, lol. One thing I'm super curious about, and can't really get a definitive answer on is upgrading to Win11 from 10. Do I have to upgrade to 11 first, or can I do a clean install straight into 11? Also, how good/bad is 11 compared to 10? I've been reticent to using 11 because I'm worried about all the new ways they try to block you from auto updates being disabled, and the account thing. Mostly because I like to fire up my PC first, then go get coffee so my PC is loaded up, and ready for use with no lag time. I don't like having to put a password in before Windows is loaded because it's wasted time.
@@CyberCPU Yup. I mentioned in an earlier comment: I've been in tech support & IT since 1998 and never knew about the middle mouse button either until recently or just forgot I guess?? Usually I just hold down the CTRL or shift buttons, but now I can't stop using the MMB. hehe
@@theoptimisticskeptic I use Logitech marble trackballs on my tech bench because it's easier to fit computers closer together. I'm sad that they don't have a middle mouse button. 🤣😂
The Win+D hotkey is much better than using the Hide/Show Desktop buttton these days because we're more apt to multiple monitors. With a single monitor, you could just throw you mouse over to lower right of the screen and it will park on the button. With multiple monitors, this isn't going to be the case depending on how you've arranged your displays.
I've been experienced in both Linux and Windows for over 27 years, and never knew about the middle click button on the task bar. I've learned something new for sure. Glad I clicked on this video, I wasn't originally because of the title "Basic Windows Tips" lol. Definitely going to watch the second one when it premiers.
@@CyberCPU Thanks for the great tips, keep them coming! When it comes to the tech industry, you surely learn something new everyday! Thanks for the great videos!
Thanks for the basic tips. There were actually a few pieces I didn't know about. For example, pressing the center / wheel button helps me a lot. In addition, there are notifications from under messages. And last but not least pathfinder with startup like in the good old days!
With the control panel I like to switch to the large icons view it gives the more traditional look . I've enjoyed you videos on making windows 10 & 11 look like windows 7.
Yes Rich I keep things like regedit ,Control Panel, Snipping tool, my browser (Brave), File explorer, and command prompt and a few other things that I access on a almost regular basis on my taskbar it saves a lot of typing what you want into the search bar😉
I like your tips, because no matter how basic, anyone can learn from them, including people who have been in the tech industry for years. The middle mouse wheel one was my fav. Increases productivity by just a hair, but makes a big different in the long run. I dont know if you've done this already, but it would be fun to do a tips video on time saving hacks and tricks.
Speaking of keeping a nice and clutter-free desktop, I've removed absolutely all desktop and taskbar icons (save my browser which is pinned to my taskbar). It looks so much better off away from those icons and shortcuts. Now all I'm left with is a huge, neat and perfectly organized display
That scroll wheel click was a new one for me as well. 🙂 One keyboard shortcut I learned in the last couple months was how to open the task manager. Ctrl + Shift + Esc. That is a time saver!
You and your videos are truely awsome mate..im a blind user but still managing to follow you and your amazing tips ive learnt si much..thank you and keep em comming ..cheers carlos
Knew them all. Been doing the My PC thing on every PC for friends/family for years. Another basic tip is Win+V to open up clipboard. I use it every day.
17:20 You can also do Win+D shortcut one more tip you can in task manager add the command line for the proccesses that you can find there and see the command line running behind every service it can be helpfull
One of my favorite Windows tips: The Windows Clipboard. Anything you copy is saved to it and if you hit the Windows key + V (rather than CTRL + V like normal) you'll get a pop up, usually asking if you want to turn it on for the first time but once you do, it'll start saving a history of everything you've copied for that session. But you can also PIN some of the copied text (and images, even if using windows Snip tool) and the Windows Clipboard will save those items even between restarts. One major caveat: I have no idea how secure it is, so I would not use it for saving passwords or any other sensitive data. I teach this to all my co-workers and they LOVE IT. And after 25+ years in IT & tech support I only learned about it 3 years ago myself.
I didn't know Windows key + . for Emoji's and symbols. Admittedly I'll only ever use it for symbols, a lot easier than trying to Alt codes. Thanks Rich!
I learned a couple of tips I didn't know such as the regedit stuff and open file explorer in 'This PC'. When you dragged your document onto the desktop, you just moved out there. Then when you moved it to the recycle bin, you effectively deleted it. I would've dragged the document to my desktop with my right mouse button and clicked 'Create Shortcut' from the submenu. That way, when you drag it to the recycle bin, you haven't deleted it and the original document is still organised.
I use shortcuts to shutdown and restart my pc. SSD drives is so fast today, so fast startup is not necassary. You get a fresh start every time pc is booted. I have deactivated fast bootup as well in the power section. I had some issues with some drivers that didn't load properly when fast startup was activated. Thanks for the tips Rich. 😊😊
I haven't had many issues with hybrid shutdown. I still personally use it myself. The only downside that I've experienced is the necessity to occasionally do a proper restart.
The one tip I use all the time is the key combination Ctrl-Shift-Esc to bring up the Task Manager. Another one I learned in the last year is to right click on the start menu, then there is a menu for shutting down or signing out of your system. I hate how windows hid the sign out and the multiple clicks you have to do in the start menu to shutdown or reboot.
When I was lead MIS I drove my office crazy with sounds. My empty recycle bin was a toilet flushing everyone else heard MY VOICE saying "Have you checked with MIS PRIOR to performing this action?" My CTO thought it was hilarious but made me change his to the toilet. I sent it via group policy which sure beats 28 computers individually especially seeing 4 were in other countries.
That one I actually learned from a comment in another video I made a year or so ago. I was complaining about it in a video and someone responded with how to change it.
I was wondering where the button was for minimize all windows. I remember it from NT 3.51 and 4.0 (I think?). But thanks, I didn't know about the far right task bar button. I also didn't know about the wheel press to start another occurrence. Thanks again!!! I've been using Windows since ver. 3.0 (talk about a buggy, crashy version) and I always find it amazing how many things I don't know. Thanks!
@@root4-all I believe it's always been that way. At least I don't recall ever having to enable it in the past. I know it's off by default in KWrite in KDE, that's always annoyed me.
To shut down your computer completely, you need to hold down the Shift key while clicking shutdown in the menu. You can also completely disable the hybrid shutdown mode by opening Control Panel > Power Options > Choose what the power button does > and disable the "Turn on fast startup (recommended)" option😉
I've been using windows 10 for, long enough, and I didn't even notice the default file explorer thing. Instead, I use a run command (Windows + R) and then type the path. You might like to try that.
I'm blind and use a screen-reader. I didn't know how to set This PC as the default when I opened File Explorer, and although I had to find a slightly different way to do it because I use the keyboard and not a mouse and I was finding it so hard to locate the View Tab just from Home (I found the View thing that has all the options for icons and which files to show/not show but not what was being described) I did find a way for me to do it with a quick Google search. So thanks for tipping me off about it! :D
I'm also a screen-reader and keyboard-only user. Directing file explorer to open at This PC is one of the first things I do when setting up File Explorer on a new system. Windows has a lot of cool stuff -- that I don't use, and I like to keep it an uncluttered and minimalist experience. obviously using the run command a lot, which is a game-changer as far as Windows goes I think -- no more hunting around for files and folders, settings etc.
@@DamnableReverend I don't use the Run command all that often, though it's faster to get into the appdata directories that way than to find it in wherever the heck they're nested. I don't mind diving into my personal folders for whichever files I need, Quick Access is just stupid because I don't always want my most recently opened files/folders. How does one change Downloads from listing the contents in order of most-recently downloaded? I somehow got my downloads folder on my last computer to be nice and alphabetical, the way I like it, but I don't remember how I did it...
@@theimaginatrix7625Make sure nothing's selected in the folder, activate the context menu, select group by, and change "date modified" to "aame". I think that oughta do it. Personally I really, really like downloads sorted in the new default way, and wish there was even more granularity available for the time sorting. But I realise a lot of people prefer the alphabetical sorting, maybe because it's just what they're used to. having downloads organised by date downloaded is awesome though especially if you have a lot of stuff in there.e
If you're like me, and have a lot of icons on your desktop, but then you need to share your screen in a web meeting (i.e. Teams, Zoom, etc), you'll want to clear them out. Not sure if this is the same on Windows 11, but it is in 10. Right-click on an empty space of your desktop. Select View, and then un-check Show Desktop Icons. All icons will vanish. Reverse the steps and re-check the item to bring them back.
OH! I TURNED ON AND THEN CHANGED THE START-UP SOUND ALL RIGHT! Thank you! Long story short? I repeatedly told my granddaughter to NOT USE my office Windows 11 computer! Need I say more?
My tips: Search in the start menu “preformance” and now click the option “Adjust the appearance of performance of Windows” In the window that appears (after UAC) click “Adjust for best performance” Now you just want to click apply at the bottom, then OK. In my experience, windows itself will use less RAM giving you more for your programs. Next, search “Mouse pointer” then open “Change the mouse pointer display or speed” Now you can turn off “Enhanced pointer persecution” which is mouse acceleration, although you should use your mouse software to do that if present in the software. Now click on the “Pointers” tab at the top of the window. Now click where it says “Windows Default” A drop-down will appear, now you just want to click “[ NONE ]” Make sure pointer shadow is turned off also. Now just click apply and then click OK. You just reverted your mouse pointer back to the one used in much older versions of windows.
DO NOT store important files on your desktop! Shortcuts to them only, people! My story: Setting up a new computer - have a massive folder with all my work to a game I mod. Put it on the desktop, and OneDrive immediately attempted to upload the whole thing. Of course, with a 5GB limit for non-paid, it got only a portion leaving me with upgrade popups and annoying icons all over the place. I attempted to remove the upload directly from OneDrive, but here's the thing - OneDrive will not let you do that. It will erase the files from the cloud AND from your hard drive - PERMANENTLY! I tried just moving material to a spare drive, AND THE DESKTOP FOLLOWED ME! I could not invoke the desktop without having that drive engaged. LSS, I eventually got everything back in place, found out in OneDrive settings how to unsync the computer and maybe a better way of deleting, but thank god for backups (BACKUPS people!). So shortcuts only on the desktop, assuming that's even a safeguard. In 25 years, I have never had malware do to me what MS did. Who needs a virus when the fine folks who brought you Win 11 can wreck your life for you. We need to stage an all-out revolt against this predatory behemoth - or cross our fingers that the Linux community can get their act together and bring us a defacto alternative without 300 forks...
The most basic tip that lots of my customers had no idea it exists, is the use of Shift and Control keys to select/deselect items on lists. You know... Users 😅
Great tip. I remember that one getting used a lot back in the day to troll people online. You would post in a group chat that people could enable some secret feature by hitting Ctrl+F4 and you would immediately see a bunch of people leave the chat simultaneously. 🤣😂
RE Control Panel - your task bar will quickly become cluttered if you pin thing to it. Instead of pinning Control Panel to it, after you search for it, you can also right click on it and pin it to your Start popup. Works in Win 19 & 11 (I've pinned Settings & Control Panel next to each other in W11)
Window Shake - where you can quickly shake or move the window from left to right as if shaking the window and all other open windows minimize except for the one you are shaking. I dispise this as sometimes it happens when I am moving things around instead.
@@CyberCPU thanks. Sorry I missed it forgot the video where you covered it. Don't know how I feel about Windows 11 yet. Work system is the only u/g win 10 system i have. Will see when they switch the flip.
Control Panel IS under Start | Windows System | Control Panel. Also, Winkey-R | control. Or, right-click-Start | Run | control. Can pin it to Start as well as Taskbar.
I knew most of them except for the Emoji one. I think a quick tip would be creating a shortcut to a program/document on the desktop; Rather then moving the document to the desktop. In our domain the desktop is not backed up. So "when" a drive dies the person loses their original document instead of just the shortcut. The original is backed up on the server.
I appreciated most of your TH-cam videos, but what I'm specifically seeking is a tutorial on how to install a virtual machine on an external hard drive, make it bootable, and then add a virtual machine to install Windows 11 on it.
Not everyone likes hybrid shut down. If you hate hybrid shut down you can disable it. It is called "fast startup" in Win 11 and can be accessed from the control panel, power options, choose what the power buttons do, change settings that are currently unavailable. Simply uncheck the fast startup box and save changes. Once fast startup is unchecked, shut down works the same as a restart.
There's an even easier way to shut it off. In an admin CMD window just type powercfg /h off That will turn hibernation off and in turn disable the hybrid shutdown.
@@CyberCPU I remember Microsoft originally released Windows 10 with a policy of automatically/silently re-enabling Fast Startup with each major update if users turned it off, but they quickly relented once it became clear that some users' systems really didn't play nicely with Fast Startup (e.g. I know someone who couldn't dual boot Linux or even get Windows updates to work properly with Fast Startup enabled).
@@iansimpson27 Earlier editions of Windows 10 would revert a lot of settings after Windows update. I remember having to reconfigure networks all the because of it. It doesn't seem to be an issue anymore. That might have been growing pains with the rolling release format Windows now uses.
@@CyberCPU I think a lot of it was indeed growing pains, e.g. some updates used to reset my default browser, PDF viewer, image viewer etc. and now this very rarely happens. Usually this got put down to bugs at the time. But the re-enabling Fast Startup was originally by design, as a way of trying to push everyone into using it. I remember seeing Microsoft confirm this in several places, claiming that it was a by-product of the way updates were done.
I disabled hybrid shut down because my windows PC would act bonkers sometimes so now that it does a normal start up every time I go to shut down, it actually shut down, and then I do a fresh restart, and I’ve had no problem cents
I avoid much of the mouse clicking (you have to move the cursor first) and use the Win Key instead. So WinKey, then type startup and you get to same place.
If you want to end multiple processes in task manager all at once instead of ending them separately, you can use the command prompt, task kill /F /IM (then program name.exe). This saves me time when the drag-and-drop feature stops working. I can kill all instances of explorer.exe, run it as a new task, and everything works fine again.
3:46 literly you have the "Play Windows Startup Sound" check box (thats checked by default in Vista and 7. checking it makes it to play the Startup sound. theres no "system start" option ,like in xp, in Vista and 7. both Vista and 7 still have the "Exit Windows" option witch plays the shutdown sound)
I actually got to find out the "Open Explorer to .. This PC/ Quick Access" via the NT Lite Editing ISO tool. To be honest I knew all the tips except the first one (changing windows sounds, but I'd rather have them all be like plain vanilla as it is)
When you 'showed desktop' hidden but you could have shown how you can close multiple program windows from the Taskbar. You right-click and 'Close ALL Windows'
Question that might make a good video for your channel. The ScanDisk DISM video from a few days ago showed a windows update for windows version 22H2. While following your video, I first updated my version of windows using Windows Update. The updates said my computer was updated to Version 22H2. But when I check my version, it is Version 10.0.19045 Build 19045. Why?!?! Should I click the button your video shows at 14:52 on the "Easily fix broken windows files now with system file checker"?!?! Does the update only occur when you use that button? Why haven't you updated to that version? Thank you.
There are different 3rd party software that migrates programs from 1 pc to another such as "EaseUS Todo PC trans" which is compatible with Windows 7, 8.1, 10 & 11.
I've never liked fast/hybrid boot, it's pretty much useless on computers that have SSDs or NVMes. I like shutting down my computer with shutdown.exe via the command prompt, or by holding shift while pressing the shutdown button.
Hybrid shutdown actually does increase the boot up speed of a system with an SSD. However, it doesn't improve it by more than a couple seconds. However, I personally still use it.
From the last tip you can disable hibernate for that totally, just open cmd as admin and type in powercfg /h off. now when shutdown windows it wont use hibernate.
I wondered what happened to the sound on and sound off for Windows Startup and shut up. I didn't know about the Registry Edit, so I made said modifications. I don't know why Microsoft keeps choosing to do these things to annoy the... ...out of its customers. Thank you for that. Dumb that we have to remember to do this on all accounts and every time we reset our computer or reinstall Windows. At least WinAero Tweaker allows backups to specific registry keys to be saved, but who will remember ? On Windows 11 you can get to Control Panel under "System Tools" that is in the taskbar. You can also pin it somewhere that way I also use it and "God Mode" as icons on the desktop. Having said all of that, my desktop is very neat too. 9 icons or 10 if you count "Learn More About This Picture" which I only keep to go to the next wallpaper if I don't like the current one.
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I've just recalled a tip for desktop icons: Hold Control + Mouse scroll up/down
It will change desktop icons size.
If you do the that shortcut in a file explorer, it will cycle through different views (small icons, large icons, list, details, mosaics, etc.).
It also works for doing zoom in apps like browsers, Word, Excel, etc.
I was going to add the same thing you added at the end, that will work in nearly any program with a zoom function.
I missed those log in and log off sounds.
Thanks buddy 👍
That's was awesome video especially the (Window + ;) for the emoji menu. I used it to make my clock more customizable by adding 2 different emojis to The AM and PM symbols, so my clock on the Taskbar looks like this:
07:54:02 AM 🌞
03:21:09 PM 🌚
You can't edit this from the normal Settings. You have to go to Control Panel > Region > Additional settings... > Time > then look for the ( AM symbol: PM symbol: ) and add or modify whatever you want, and this a none destructive way that there is a Reset button in case you did something you don't like!
Thanks for the nice tips. Have a great day 😊
The middle mouse wheel tip is new to me too. That's awesome. 😊
A quick way to close all your Chrome windows at once: right-click Chrome in the Task Bar and click "Close all windows"
Jumplists - you almost covered them, but the ability to pin files for quick access is a productivity tool I use every day. Such a time saver.
Good tip. I should have included that.
That middle mouse button tip was amazing! I'll be using that at work from now on!
I just found out about that tip a few months ago. It's been a game changer. I use it constantly now.
I love your show, especially the tips shows. I've been tech side on PCs since the 1980s, and editing Windows registries since Windows 2.1. I still learn things from you. I just wish you put chapters on shows like this. There are some especially useful shows that I save to a playlist, and it'd be great to be able to get immediately to the segment I need.
Shift+Shutdown is a special command that triggers a full shutdown of the computer in Windows 10/11. It is different than a regular shutdown in that it clears all the cached information and completely powers down the system.
Keyboard shortcuts - copy, paste, undo, Shift+F10 for a context menu in all sorts of apps, reversing a shortcut by using Shift+ (like Shift+Tab).
And if you don't want to bother with the middle click to open a new window, use Shift + Left Click.
Ok, not having control panel and getting it back just saved me HOURS of time. I have 27 items I had no idea where there most are proprietary Dell but I just fixed a Bluetooth issue in 15 seconds
Glad it helped.
Thank you, Rich! These videos are great fun to watch, and I love learning/re-learning things for the OS. A lot of these I totally forgot about, and the middle mouse button one is completely new to me. If you hit the keyboard combo Windows + D it's the hotkey combo for show/hide desktop. That way you don't have to frantically search for the taskbar button while getting caught looking at things you don't want people to know about. 😉 On my system, since I'm using an Elecom Huge trackball with extra buttons, I have the emojis panel, and the snip tool set to macros for quick use. As far as getting the control panel, one really neat option is a reg edit you can install that will allow it to be put into your context menu. All you do is right click desktop, and it'll be in the list of entries you can click on. Super helpful if you need it quickly, and don't wanna piss about with the start menu, lol.
One thing I'm super curious about, and can't really get a definitive answer on is upgrading to Win11 from 10. Do I have to upgrade to 11 first, or can I do a clean install straight into 11? Also, how good/bad is 11 compared to 10? I've been reticent to using 11 because I'm worried about all the new ways they try to block you from auto updates being disabled, and the account thing. Mostly because I like to fire up my PC first, then go get coffee so my PC is loaded up, and ready for use with no lag time. I don't like having to put a password in before Windows is loaded because it's wasted time.
Glad it helped.
@@CyberCPU Yup. I mentioned in an earlier comment: I've been in tech support & IT since 1998 and never knew about the middle mouse button either until recently or just forgot I guess?? Usually I just hold down the CTRL or shift buttons, but now I can't stop using the MMB. hehe
@@theoptimisticskeptic I use Logitech marble trackballs on my tech bench because it's easier to fit computers closer together. I'm sad that they don't have a middle mouse button. 🤣😂
The Win+D hotkey is much better than using the Hide/Show Desktop buttton these days because we're more apt to multiple monitors. With a single monitor, you could just throw you mouse over to lower right of the screen and it will park on the button. With multiple monitors, this isn't going to be the case depending on how you've arranged your displays.
I was a little upset I couldn't find part 2 until... I realized part 1 was posted 6hr ago 😂.
Lookin forward to part 2 👍
Sorry, it will be out next Monday.
I've been experienced in both Linux and Windows for over 27 years, and never knew about the middle click button on the task bar. I've learned something new for sure. Glad I clicked on this video, I wasn't originally because of the title "Basic Windows Tips" lol. Definitely going to watch the second one when it premiers.
Yeah, I've been a tech for over 20 years and I just learned about the middle mouse button a few months ago. I use it constantly now.
@@CyberCPU Thanks for the great tips, keep them coming! When it comes to the tech industry, you surely learn something new everyday! Thanks for the great videos!
Thanks for the basic tips. There were actually a few pieces I didn't know about. For example, pressing the center / wheel button helps me a lot. In addition, there are notifications from under messages. And last but not least pathfinder with startup like in the good old days!
With the control panel I like to switch to the large icons view it gives the more traditional look . I've enjoyed you videos on making windows 10 & 11 look like windows 7.
Yes Rich I keep things like regedit ,Control Panel, Snipping tool, my browser (Brave), File explorer, and command prompt and a few other things that I access on a almost regular basis on my taskbar it saves a lot of typing what you want into the search bar😉
I like your tips, because no matter how basic, anyone can learn from them, including people who have been in the tech industry for years. The middle mouse wheel one was my fav. Increases productivity by just a hair, but makes a big different in the long run. I dont know if you've done this already, but it would be fun to do a tips video on time saving hacks and tricks.
that works in a lot of things, browsers too. Middle click and ctrl + click open in new tab
Speaking of keeping a nice and clutter-free desktop, I've removed absolutely all desktop and taskbar icons (save my browser which is pinned to my taskbar). It looks so much better off away from those icons and shortcuts. Now all I'm left with is a huge, neat and perfectly organized display
I would suggest drag files with right click.
That scroll wheel click was a new one for me as well. 🙂
One keyboard shortcut I learned in the last couple months was how to open the task manager. Ctrl + Shift + Esc. That is a time saver!
I am totally with you on the This PC tip! I HATE quick access! This tip is a golden one in my book! Thanks for the great content!
You and your videos are truely awsome mate..im a blind user but still managing to follow you and your amazing tips ive learnt si much..thank you and keep em comming ..cheers carlos
I found this video very informative. Some of the tips I wasn't aware of.
Glad it helped.
Thanks, wheel-mouse-click is an awesome tip, never heard of it.
loved the mouse wheel tip, I will def be using it
I just learned that one a few months ago too. It's a game changer. I use it constantly now.
The only one I didn't know was the adding the logon and logoff sounds in the control panel. But it was a good list.
Knew them all. Been doing the My PC thing on every PC for friends/family for years. Another basic tip is Win+V to open up clipboard. I use it every day.
That one's in part 2. 😉
Easier way to get to clear browser cache dialog - Open browser, hit CTRL, Shift, Delete
The tip of opening multiple tabs with the mouse wheel, I didn't know that and I'm going to start using it.
17:20 You can also do Win+D shortcut
one more tip you can in task manager add the command line for the proccesses that you can find there and see the command line running behind every service it can be helpfull
love the advanced tips
i knew about all of these except the emoji one. tbh i didn't even know that was a thing. thanks!
Glad it helped.
the middle click on taskbar shortcuts hint is gold! I never tried it :)
I've been a tech for over 20 years and I just learned that tip a few months ago. It's been a game changer. I use it constantly now.
thank you it fixed a few problems i was trying to fix thank you very help fall i use control panel alot always put on my desktop
One of my favorite Windows tips: The Windows Clipboard. Anything you copy is saved to it and if you hit the Windows key + V (rather than CTRL + V like normal) you'll get a pop up, usually asking if you want to turn it on for the first time but once you do, it'll start saving a history of everything you've copied for that session. But you can also PIN some of the copied text (and images, even if using windows Snip tool) and the Windows Clipboard will save those items even between restarts.
One major caveat: I have no idea how secure it is, so I would not use it for saving passwords or any other sensitive data. I teach this to all my co-workers and they LOVE IT. And after 25+ years in IT & tech support I only learned about it 3 years ago myself.
Tip 1 shortcut: Right click on Speaker icon on system task bar and select 'sounds'
Great tip. I wonder if that works the same in Windows 10 and 11. I know a lot of those shortcuts were taken away with Windows 11.
@@CyberCPU It works in both Win 10 and 11 (at least in the current release).
I recall it works in win 7 too, but not 100% sure.
@@smartinro. good to know.
I didn't know Windows key + . for Emoji's and symbols. Admittedly I'll only ever use it for symbols, a lot easier than trying to Alt codes. Thanks Rich!
Glad it helped.
I learned a couple of tips I didn't know such as the regedit stuff and open file explorer in 'This PC'.
When you dragged your document onto the desktop, you just moved out there. Then when you moved it to the recycle bin, you effectively deleted it.
I would've dragged the document to my desktop with my right mouse button and clicked 'Create Shortcut' from the submenu. That way, when you drag it to the recycle bin, you haven't deleted it and the original document is still organised.
I use shortcuts to shutdown and restart my pc. SSD drives is so fast today, so fast startup is not necassary. You get a fresh start every time pc is booted. I have deactivated fast bootup as well in the power section. I had some issues with some drivers that didn't load properly when fast startup was activated. Thanks for the tips Rich. 😊😊
I haven't had many issues with hybrid shutdown. I still personally use it myself. The only downside that I've experienced is the necessity to occasionally do a proper restart.
The one tip I use all the time is the key combination Ctrl-Shift-Esc to bring up the Task Manager. Another one I learned in the last year is to right click on the start menu, then there is a menu for shutting down or signing out of your system. I hate how windows hid the sign out and the multiple clicks you have to do in the start menu to shutdown or reboot.
When I was lead MIS I drove my office crazy with sounds. My empty recycle bin was a toilet flushing everyone else heard MY VOICE saying "Have you checked with MIS PRIOR to performing this action?" My CTO thought it was hilarious but made me change his to the toilet. I sent it via group policy which sure beats 28 computers individually especially seeing 4 were in other countries.
That's funny.
My favorite was with the emoticons. Nice one !
Quick access tip was my favourite.
That one I actually learned from a comment in another video I made a year or so ago. I was complaining about it in a video and someone responded with how to change it.
I was wondering where the button was for minimize all windows. I remember it from NT 3.51 and 4.0 (I think?). But thanks, I didn't know about the far right task bar button. I also didn't know about the wheel press to start another occurrence. Thanks again!!! I've been using Windows since ver. 3.0 (talk about a buggy, crashy version) and I always find it amazing how many things I don't know. Thanks!
Force text in notepad to stay within the window borders: open notepad >click on format >enable word warp
Isn't word wrap enabled by default in notepad?
@@CyberCPU Only in latest version of Windows 11 in my experience.
@@root4-all I believe it's always been that way. At least I don't recall ever having to enable it in the past. I know it's off by default in KWrite in KDE, that's always annoyed me.
thank you
To shut down your computer completely, you need to hold down the Shift key while clicking shutdown in the menu. You can also completely disable the hybrid shutdown mode by opening Control Panel > Power Options > Choose what the power button does > and disable the "Turn on fast startup (recommended)" option😉
That middle mouse button tip for opening another instance was the shizzz.
Glad it helped.
I wish I would have found your channel forever ago. I have been here for a few months now but I DO NOT know how I never found your channel.
Glad my videos are helpful.
I've been using windows 10 for, long enough, and I didn't even notice the default file explorer thing. Instead, I use a run command (Windows + R) and then type the path. You might like to try that.
I'm blind and use a screen-reader. I didn't know how to set This PC as the default when I opened File Explorer, and although I had to find a slightly different way to do it because I use the keyboard and not a mouse and I was finding it so hard to locate the View Tab just from Home (I found the View thing that has all the options for icons and which files to show/not show but not what was being described) I did find a way for me to do it with a quick Google search. So thanks for tipping me off about it! :D
I'm also a screen-reader and keyboard-only user. Directing file explorer to open at This PC is one of the first things I do when setting up File Explorer on a new system. Windows has a lot of cool stuff -- that I don't use, and I like to keep it an uncluttered and minimalist experience.
obviously using the run command a lot, which is a game-changer as far as Windows goes I think -- no more hunting around for files and folders, settings etc.
Glad it helped.
@@DamnableReverend I don't use the Run command all that often, though it's faster to get into the appdata directories that way than to find it in wherever the heck they're nested. I don't mind diving into my personal folders for whichever files I need, Quick Access is just stupid because I don't always want my most recently opened files/folders.
How does one change Downloads from listing the contents in order of most-recently downloaded? I somehow got my downloads folder on my last computer to be nice and alphabetical, the way I like it, but I don't remember how I did it...
@@theimaginatrix7625Make sure nothing's selected in the folder, activate the context menu, select group by, and change "date modified" to "aame". I think that oughta do it.
Personally I really, really like downloads sorted in the new default way, and wish there was even more granularity available for the time sorting. But I realise a lot of people prefer the alphabetical sorting, maybe because it's just what they're used to. having downloads organised by date downloaded is awesome though especially if you have a lot of stuff in there.e
If you're like me, and have a lot of icons on your desktop, but then you need to share your screen in a web meeting (i.e. Teams, Zoom, etc), you'll want to clear them out. Not sure if this is the same on Windows 11, but it is in 10.
Right-click on an empty space of your desktop. Select View, and then un-check Show Desktop Icons. All icons will vanish. Reverse the steps and re-check the item to bring them back.
Btw Love that wallpaper!!. From where did you manage to get it?
Google image search.
OH! I TURNED ON AND THEN CHANGED THE START-UP SOUND ALL RIGHT! Thank you! Long story short? I repeatedly told my granddaughter to NOT USE my office Windows 11 computer! Need I say more?
2:11 you can type control.exe in the run box and in the window that opens search for sounds. works on both
My tips:
Search in the start menu “preformance” and now click the option “Adjust the appearance of performance of Windows”
In the window that appears (after UAC) click “Adjust for best performance”
Now you just want to click apply at the bottom, then OK.
In my experience, windows itself will use less RAM giving you more for your programs.
Next, search “Mouse pointer” then open “Change the mouse pointer display or speed”
Now you can turn off “Enhanced pointer persecution” which is mouse acceleration, although you should use your mouse software to do that if present in the software.
Now click on the “Pointers” tab at the top of the window.
Now click where it says “Windows Default”
A drop-down will appear, now you just want to click “[ NONE ]”
Make sure pointer shadow is turned off also.
Now just click apply and then click OK.
You just reverted your mouse pointer back to the one used in much older versions of windows.
DO NOT store important files on your desktop! Shortcuts to them only, people! My story: Setting up a new computer - have a massive folder with all my work to a game I mod. Put it on the desktop, and OneDrive immediately attempted to upload the whole thing. Of course, with a 5GB limit for non-paid, it got only a portion leaving me with upgrade popups and annoying icons all over the place. I attempted to remove the upload directly from OneDrive, but here's the thing - OneDrive will not let you do that. It will erase the files from the cloud AND from your hard drive - PERMANENTLY! I tried just moving material to a spare drive, AND THE DESKTOP FOLLOWED ME! I could not invoke the desktop without having that drive engaged. LSS, I eventually got everything back in place, found out in OneDrive settings how to unsync the computer and maybe a better way of deleting, but thank god for backups (BACKUPS people!). So shortcuts only on the desktop, assuming that's even a safeguard.
In 25 years, I have never had malware do to me what MS did. Who needs a virus when the fine folks who brought you Win 11 can wreck your life for you. We need to stage an all-out revolt against this predatory behemoth - or cross our fingers that the Linux community can get their act together and bring us a defacto alternative without 300 forks...
Had that too many things so added a 2nd display made some really great diffrence
The most basic tip that lots of my customers had no idea it exists, is the use of Shift and Control keys to select/deselect items on lists.
You know... Users 😅
@CyberCPU Tech hey Rich,instead of clicking every x to close a window,you can use ctrl and F4 to close windows consecutively,cheers
I did not know that THX
Great tip. I remember that one getting used a lot back in the day to troll people online.
You would post in a group chat that people could enable some secret feature by hitting Ctrl+F4 and you would immediately see a bunch of people leave the chat simultaneously. 🤣😂
@@CyberCPU lol good one Rich
Middle mouse button GOLD !
Clicking icons on the taskbar via the scroll wheel appears to be an alternative for shift-left-click.
RE Control Panel - your task bar will quickly become cluttered if you pin thing to it. Instead of pinning Control Panel to it, after you search for it, you can also right click on it and pin it to your Start popup. Works in Win 19 & 11 (I've pinned Settings & Control Panel next to each other in W11)
Window Shake - where you can quickly shake or move the window from left to right as if shaking the window and all other open windows minimize except for the one you are shaking. I dispise this as sometimes it happens when I am moving things around instead.
I've shared that one in other videos before. They actually disable it by default in Windows 11. Other people probably had the same issue you have.
@@CyberCPU thanks. Sorry I missed it forgot the video where you covered it. Don't know how I feel about Windows 11 yet. Work system is the only u/g win 10 system i have. Will see when they switch the flip.
I ENJOY ALL your videos even if i already have the info yhou present
Control Panel IS under Start | Windows System | Control Panel. Also, Winkey-R | control. Or, right-click-Start | Run | control. Can pin it to Start as well as Taskbar.
If you hold shift and press “shutdown” it’ll do a proper real shutdown
and if you hold shift on restart, it'll boot into the Windows pre-boot environment (which lets you troubleshoot boot/stability problems)
Great tip.
A Lot of Tips in This video i Did Not Know, Good Video,
Thanks, glad it helped.
desktop& task bar folder for all users is sometime handy too
LOL! I was playing with the mouse wheel AND making emojis like no one's business! Cool.
I knew most of them except for the Emoji one. I think a quick tip would be creating a shortcut to a program/document on the desktop; Rather then moving the document to the desktop. In our domain the desktop is not backed up. So "when" a drive dies the person loses their original document instead of just the shortcut. The original is backed up on the server.
I appreciated most of your TH-cam videos, but what I'm specifically seeking is a tutorial on how to install a virtual machine on an external hard drive, make it bootable, and then add a virtual machine to install Windows 11 on it.
Sir which one is better windows 11 or windows 10
For content creation please
Not everyone likes hybrid shut down. If you hate hybrid shut down you can disable it. It is called "fast startup" in Win 11 and can be accessed from the control panel, power options, choose what the power buttons do, change settings that are currently unavailable. Simply uncheck the fast startup box and save changes. Once fast startup is unchecked, shut down works the same as a restart.
There's an even easier way to shut it off. In an admin CMD window just type
powercfg /h off
That will turn hibernation off and in turn disable the hybrid shutdown.
@@CyberCPU I remember Microsoft originally released Windows 10 with a policy of automatically/silently re-enabling Fast Startup with each major update if users turned it off, but they quickly relented once it became clear that some users' systems really didn't play nicely with Fast Startup (e.g. I know someone who couldn't dual boot Linux or even get Windows updates to work properly with Fast Startup enabled).
@@iansimpson27 Earlier editions of Windows 10 would revert a lot of settings after Windows update. I remember having to reconfigure networks all the because of it. It doesn't seem to be an issue anymore. That might have been growing pains with the rolling release format Windows now uses.
@@CyberCPU I think a lot of it was indeed growing pains, e.g. some updates used to reset my default browser, PDF viewer, image viewer etc. and now this very rarely happens. Usually this got put down to bugs at the time. But the re-enabling Fast Startup was originally by design, as a way of trying to push everyone into using it. I remember seeing Microsoft confirm this in several places, claiming that it was a by-product of the way updates were done.
Restarting Windows can fix problems, so it's a good idea to restart every one and a while
KDE also does the middle button on the taskbar... found it by accident, like many features.
Lots of features in KDE become future features in Windows. 🤣😂
I disabled hybrid shut down because my windows PC would act bonkers sometimes so now that it does a normal start up every time I go to shut down, it actually shut down, and then I do a fresh restart, and I’ve had no problem cents
I avoid much of the mouse clicking (you have to move the cursor first) and use the Win Key instead. So WinKey, then type startup and you get to same place.
great tips. love the one for this pc not quick access in file explorer
If you want to end multiple processes in task manager all at once instead of ending them separately, you can use the command prompt, task kill /F /IM (then program name.exe). This saves me time when the drag-and-drop feature stops working. I can kill all instances of explorer.exe, run it as a new task, and everything works fine again.
the middle mouse wheel!!! subbbed
For Windows 11, access notifications settings through Settings>System>Notifications
WoW great.
3:46 literly you have the "Play Windows Startup Sound" check box (thats checked by default in Vista and 7. checking it makes it to play the Startup sound. theres no "system start" option ,like in xp, in Vista and 7. both Vista and 7 still have the "Exit Windows" option witch plays the shutdown sound)
middle mouse button woke me up thank you.
Glad it helped. That one was new to me a few months ago and has been a game changer since I found out about it.
I actually got to find out the "Open Explorer to .. This PC/ Quick Access" via the NT Lite Editing ISO tool. To be honest I knew all the tips except the first one (changing windows sounds, but I'd rather have them all be like plain vanilla as it is)
When you 'showed desktop' hidden but you could have shown how you can close multiple program windows from the Taskbar. You right-click and 'Close ALL Windows'
Even I'm expert l have to see your videos.
Thanks 🙏🏻
Glad they helped.
yes I am 51 and been messing with windows sence win98 I have gog to know every windows very well !!
Question that might make a good video for your channel. The ScanDisk DISM video from a few days ago showed a windows update for windows version 22H2. While following your video, I first updated my version of windows using Windows Update. The updates said my computer was updated to Version 22H2. But when I check my version, it is Version 10.0.19045 Build 19045. Why?!?! Should I click the button your video shows at 14:52 on the "Easily fix broken windows files now with system file checker"?!?! Does the update only occur when you use that button? Why haven't you updated to that version? Thank you.
Or see the oem info by clicking on File explorer, then right click in the white area, like in the middle of the screen and select properties.
Holy crap! The scroll wheel click is crazy :D:D:D
there's only one thing i need from the sound panel - no sounds, first thing always
to quick access your desktop you can rather press Win+D and it will take you to your desktop
For a "real" shutdown you actually don't need to restart the system. Instead you can just hold *SHIFT* while clicking on the *Shut down* button :)
Do you have a video on installing windows from a usb iso?
How about a video about moving programs and files from an old computer to a new computer?
There are different 3rd party software that migrates programs from 1 pc to another such as "EaseUS Todo PC trans" which is compatible with Windows 7, 8.1, 10 & 11.
@@rogermeyer5695 Thank You
Yes, I actually did a video on PC trans a while back. It's a great program.
I've never liked fast/hybrid boot, it's pretty much useless on computers that have SSDs or NVMes. I like shutting down my computer with shutdown.exe via the command prompt, or by holding shift while pressing the shutdown button.
Hybrid shutdown actually does increase the boot up speed of a system with an SSD. However, it doesn't improve it by more than a couple seconds. However, I personally still use it.
From the last tip you can disable hibernate for that totally, just open cmd as admin and type in powercfg /h off. now when shutdown windows it wont use hibernate.
I wondered what happened to the sound on and sound off for Windows Startup and shut up. I didn't know about the Registry Edit, so I made said modifications. I don't know why Microsoft keeps choosing to do these things to annoy the... ...out of its customers. Thank you for that. Dumb that we have to remember to do this on all accounts and every time we reset our computer or reinstall Windows. At least WinAero Tweaker allows backups to specific registry keys to be saved, but who will remember ?
On Windows 11 you can get to Control Panel under "System Tools" that is in the taskbar. You can also pin it somewhere that way I also use it and "God Mode" as icons on the desktop. Having said all of that, my desktop is very neat too. 9 icons or 10 if you count "Learn More About This Picture" which I only keep to go to the next wallpaper if I don't like the current one.