Category: better working

Share Hard Disks and Optical Drives with Other Computers

While you can pin remote drives in File Explorer on your PC, so you can get quick access to them, it’s also possible to share disks and folders on your PC with other computers on the network. This can also include optical drives, allowing you…

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Pin Network Drives in File Explorer

If you need to regularly access files and documents on your office or home network, you might find it a chore each day to find that network resource in File Explorer. Did you know though that you can pin the drive within File Explorer though…

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Bulk Rename Files Using Search and Replace with PowerRename

Microsoft have released a set of PowerToys for Windows 10, which you can download from this link. One of these utilities is called PowerRenamer and it is a very powerful, and highly effective way to be able to bulk rename files, or even just parts of…

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Introducing the Windows Terminal

If you do a lot of scripting in Windows, either through the Command Prompt, Powershell, or are using Azure Cloud Shell, or Windows Subsystem for Linux, then you might be interested in Windows Terminal. This is a Microsoft Store app available for Windows 10 that can…

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Boost your Productivity with Windows key shortcuts

You’ll probably already be aware of keyboard shortcuts you can use with your PC to speed up common tasks, such as Ctrl + X, C and V for Cut, Copy and Paste, and Alt + Tab to switch between running apps. But did you know there are a…

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Access Special Characters Easily in Windows

It can be quite often on a PC when you need access to special characters such as foreign currency symbols, specialist mathematical characters, or common foreign language characters. Traditionally in Windows you’ve had to open the Character Map app, find the right character, and in the…

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Customise and Configure your Laptop’s Trackpad

If you use Windows 10 on a laptop you can configure and customise your trackpad to help you get more from it, and work in more of a way that makes you both comfortable and productive. From Settings, open Devices and then Touchpad. Here you will find options…

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Search for Files, Documents and More in Windows

Microsoft have revamped the search facility in Windows 10 to make it much simpler to use. You can search either from typing when the Start Menu is open, or by clicking in the search box, or the magnifying glass icon that sits next to the…

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Get International Characters with the On-Screen Keyboard

We live in an increasingly international world, and this means that we can often need international characters in the text that we type. Fortunately, if you use a touch device with Windows 10, it is easy to get access to these characters from the Touch…

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Keep the Windows Calculator on Top of Other Apps

In one of those “Why hasn’t it done this since the very beginning” moments, it is now possible to always keep the Windows calendar on top of other apps, so that whatever app you’re in you’re always able to perform calculations. I know, it’s such…

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