I came across this little trick on tripledot.be and thought I’d share it here, too.
I’ve been using the Shift + Right-click > Open command window here shortcut for years, but there isn’t such a link for starting PowerShell in the same fashion. Or so I thought…
This is probably one of the most common things for PC owners to do, along with RAM upgrades and adding additional hard disks, yet can be one of the most fiddly and time-consuming. Whereas RAM and HDDs come in standard physical sizes, video card come in a range of heights, widths, and depths. Some are “low profile”, designed for slimmer cases; some take up two or more slots on the motherboard (or at least the space above them); some are short at around 24cm, and some are long and can be up to 30cm or more. As such, you can never be sure whether they’ll fit in your PC case without taking some measurements and eventually trying it for size. Continue reading...
I’ve seen lists of tips from 5 to 100 items, but most are filled with fairly standard things that I consider obvious (e.g., “create a new text message by pressing New Message”). So here’s a list of the tips and tricks that I have found most useful but aren’t obvious at first glance.
I’m not talking about your regular Ctrl+C, Alt+F4, etc. shortcuts here, but more the “shorter route” meaning of shortcut. Those of you who got a new #Windows_Phone phone for Christmas (or before) are probably now aware of the different keyboards available. These are as follows: Continue reading...
Remember pressing print-screen, opening Paint, pasting, cropping/resizing, labelling, selecting it all, copying, and finally pasting somewhere? Forget it!
Since Vista, in fact, Windows has had a little application called Snipping Tool hidden away in the Start Menu. Luckily for us, it’s easy to find – just start typing ‘snipping’ in the Start Menu search and it’ll pop up in the results.
