My favourite tips of 2018
As this will be the last tip of the year I thought I’d highlight some of my favourite tips from 2018. If you joined the list part way through the …
Reopen a recently closed tab in your browser
I sometimes end up with lots of tabs open in my browser so decide to declutter and close a few of them. When doing this I sometimes accidentally close a …
Mark a file Read Only
On occasion you may have a file that you want to open and use but you want to be sure you don’t accidentally save any changes. Maybe it is the …
Keyboard shortcut to display your Home Page in your browser
When using your browser, you may occasionally want to return to your Home Page and I am sure you have found the Home button on the toolbar. Yet if your …
How to Pin and Mute browser tabs
Web browsers have a couple of handy features that you may not have run across. Pin a tab. I have a few sites that I always open whenever I open …
Using Google’s Calculator
Google is the most popular search engine and I am sure many of you use it for your searches. What you may not know is that Google has a built-in …
A great way to manage all your passwords
For about the last year I’ve been using a very useful website & app that keeps track of and manages all my passwords. It’s such a useful tool I wanted …
How to quickly select the majority of the files in a folder
File Explorer (or Windows Explorer as it used to be called) has a handy feature that makes it easy to select most of the files in a folder. Let’s say …
Use the Prt Scr key to copy only the active window
As you work on your PC, you might occasionally get an unexpected error message popping up on the screen. In these instances, you probably want to capture the message so …
Optimize your Windows taskbar by using small icons
As you open more and more programs on your system, the Taskbar can get quite cluttered. If you turn on the Small Icons feature in Windows you’ll be able to …