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Declutter the Taskbar by unpinning programs you don’t use daily

Continuing the theme of decluttering in the last couple of tips, this week we are going to look at how you can free up more space on the Taskbar. New …

MS Windows

Hide Cortana in Windows 10 to free up space on the Taskbar

Last week we looked at how to free up space on the Taskbar by hiding the Task View button.  Continuing the theme of decluttering, this week we are going to …

MS Windows

Declutter the Taskbar by hiding the Task View button

In last week’s tip we covered the Task View button, which was introduced in Windows 10.  If you don’t use the Task View button or if you tend to use …

MS Windows

Take a partial screen shot with the Windows Snipping Tool

The Snipping Tool was introduced in Windows 7 and it lets you take a snapshot of anything on your screen(s).   It’s an improvement on the Prt Scr key as it …

MS Windows

Using the Windows 10 Task View button to quickly switch to an open window

Windows 10 introduced a new feature called Task View.  It makes it easy to quickly find and switch to an open window.  The Task View button is to the right …

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How to Zoom in when reading an Outlook email

Subscriber Jean K. asks ‘Is there a way in Outlook to zoom in to make the text in an email larger?’ If you have opened the message, as opposed to …

MS Windows

Keyboard shortcut to preview a file in File Explorer

As I’m working with File Explorer, or Windows Explorer as it is called in the earlier versions of Windows, I occasionally want to have a quick look at a file …

MS Windows

Print selected pages of a PDF

If you have a large PDF file you may occasionally want to only print some of the pages rather than the whole file. Maybe it’s a large report and you …

MS Windows

How to use Checkboxes to select files in Windows Explorer

As you likely, know if you want to select multiple files in Windows Explorer, you can press and hold the Ctrl key and then select the files you want.  This …

MS Windows

Keyboard shortcut to close a window

Lets say you are in the final stages of working on a document and you have made the final edits.  You want to save the document and close the window.  …

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