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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Sometimes you’re working on a project that’s so important, you can’t afford to be interrupted by anything, let alone Windows installing updates and, worse, asking for you to restart the PC. It’s easy to pause updates in Windows for up to 30 days. From Settings, open Update…
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…
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…
Windows Update can sometimes be a pain. While it’s both necessary and helpful to have security and stability updates automatically delivered to your PCs, this all too often results in restarts and downloads happening at the most unhelpful times. Fortunately it’s very easy to control…
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…
If you are using a PC with pen support, such as a Microsoft Surface Pro, or a 2-in-1 laptop, then you might find the Windows Ink Workspace useful. This is a button (a picture of a pen drawing a curvy line) next to the clock on…
If you use a pen with your Windows 10 PC, then you might find the settings you can use to control that pen very useful. You can find them in Settings under Devices and Pen & Windows Ink. Here you can tell Windows if you are right…
The Snip & Sketch tool in Windows is a pen and ink-friendly way to annotate screenshots. You can find it in the Start Menu, or take a screenshot and have Snip & Sketch open automatically by pressing the Windows key + Shift + S. With…
