Keyboard shortcuts are a useful way of improving productivity and completing sometimes monotonous tasks with greater ease. This can be as simple as typing 2 keys and producing a predetermined phrase, ...

Although Windows 11 includes an option to switch between Dark and Light modes, you need to go through a lot of steps to toggle that. If you often need the Dark mode on your computer, you can use a ...

How many of you actually Safely eject the USB stick from your PC? Not many, I am sure. We have this habit of just pulling out the USB drive randomly from the PC, without safely ejecting it, which ...

While working in the Windows File Manager, you can right-click an item and turn it into a shortcut by selecting "Create Shortcut." When you use this method, File Manager places a new shortcut in the ...

Windows 8 significantly changed the Windows interface, which can make it hard to find programs you're used to opening frequently. The Start menu, which used to list Windows accessories like Notepad, ...

For whatever reason, the "Safely Remove Hardware" dialog always seems a bit less than convenient to get to for me—mine is usually hidden behind that expanding arrow, and clicking through all the right ...

Almost all of us who use a Windows laptop everyday at work are aware of the basic shortcuts like Ctrl+C to copy, Ctrl+V to paste, Ctrl+Z to undo mistakes. But if you think that’s all your Windows ...

Depending on settings, turning off your Windows 11 PC the conventional way may not completely shutdown your system. That takes an extra step: I’ll show you how. Image: Mark Kaelin/TechRepublic. Most ...

To hide a folder, create the folder, right-click it, select "Properties," enable "Hidden," and choose Apply > OK. Create a shortcut to the folder, right-click it, select "Properties," click "Shortcut ...