10 Tips For Windows 10 and 11

today I'm going to show you 10 tips for Windows 10 and 11. some of these you may know but I bet you a few of them you don't I know I didn't stay tuned I don't know about you but I love watching videos of random Windows tips almost every time I see one of these videos I pick up something new and I'm hoping that's going to be the case for you today in this video however if you knew all of the tips by the end of this video then let me know in the comments below also if you picked up something new then let me know which one it was also if there's anything that you think I left out of this video make sure to mention it in the comments I may make another one of these videos if I can find enough tips and stay tuned to the end of the video because I have a bonus tip that's not only completely worthless but it's really awesome at the same time and I bet you didn't know about it so let's get into it okay here we go 10 tips for Windows 10 and 11. now this should work in both Windows 10 and 11. however there might be some differences and if there are I'll go ahead and mention them but to start out with as you can see my desktop is an absolute disaster and that's where our first tip comes in if you go on your desktop anywhere that there isn't an icon and right click you can go to view and you can hit show icons and if you do that you can actually disable the icons in your desktop to make your desktop look a little bit cleaner and once you want to bring them back you do the same thing you right click you go to view and you hit show desktop icons now that's definitely a very common tip and most people probably know that one however there's another one here that you may or may not have known about since Windows 8 Microsoft has been trying to get people off of using control panel so they've gotten people into using settings and you know what settings are great they're getting a lot better especially in Windows 11. I gotta say I like settings from Windows 11 a lot better than Windows 10. but there's still a lot lacking so there's times you you really do need to use control panel and luckily Microsoft still gave you a way to get to the control panel so the way you do it is you just click on your start menu and just type start typing control and once you do that you should find the control panel app and it's the same control panel as you had before but unfortunately some of the components within the control panel have been moved to settings like for instance if you go to your system information it just opens settings and unfortunately that kind of stinks but at the same time you know at least we have access to the control panel to a certain extent okay so this next tip is one that I didn't know about but it's one that I'm going to use for a long time to come and this one here is going to be in command prompt so to open up your command prompt you just click on the start button go ahead and type CMD and you should have your command prompt and since I have terminal installed it's going to open Terminal automatically but that's okay because this tip Works in both and what you want to do is you want to hold down the control and shift key while you're moving your mouse wheel and as you can see you can change the trend transparency within the control panel so if you happen to be copying something from a website you'll be able to see it so if I'm going to open this website up right here and as you can see now my control panel floats easily over the top of the web page and you can type whatever command you may want to type just like that now I don't know about you but this tip right here with a translucent command prompt is a really cool tip I'm actually really glad I found this one right here and it's really easy to do also once you close the command prompt and open it again it goes back to its default translucency so you'll have to do this every time you open it but if you use terminal you can adjust the transparency for every time you open it so just keep that in mind as well okay so for the next tip I'm going to go ahead and close these right here the next tip we're going to talk about are icons that are pinned down in the taskbar right here obviously if you click on an icon the application that you're using will open up but have you ever tried right clicking on the icon if you do that it'll give you a whole bunch of different options like for instance from Explorer right here you can see all of my pin shortcuts and all of my frequently open folders and if you come over here we can right click on Chrome and you can see the recently closed tabs as well as different tasks that you can do you can open a new incognito window and in different applications you could do different things like in here in terminal you can open a new Powershell a command prompt or a new terminal window if you wanted and since we're talking about Mouse buttons let's talk about Mouse buttons a little bit more for a minute here there's several different shortcuts that you can do with your mouse that come in really handy so let's go ahead and get a web page open right here and I'll show you one of them real quick so as we can see right here we're on my merch store by the way if you're looking for some cool t-shirts this is the place to get them go ahead and visit my merch store it helps me out a lot and you can get any t-shirt that I typically wear in videos right here I have a lot of people making comments on them sometimes this is where you can get them but when it comes to your mouse button there's several different shortcuts that you can use in your mouse button so the first one I'm going to do is we're going to go ahead and click on the tab right here and let's say you want to open one of these pages but you don't want to open it in the same window you want to open it in a new window well you can easily right click and hit open link in new tab however there's an easier way to do this if you just click the middle Mouse button it will automatically open it in another tab this is one that I use constantly so it's a tip that I've known about for quite some time but if you haven't hopefully this one will be as useful to you as it is for me now what we're going to do is I'm going to go ahead and minimize this we're going to open an Explorer window and this is another use for the middle Mouse button if you have you ever had an Explorer window open like say you're inside of a different folder or something and you want to open up another instance of Explorer well to do that all you do is push on the Explorer icon from your taskbar with the middle Mouse button and it'll open up another instance as many times as you do that is as many windows as it'll open up this is another really useful tip that I didn't know about until doing the research for this video but hopefully it'll come in just as handy for you now the final Mouse shortcut I want to show uses the right button this one I think is probably one of the most valuable tips in this entire video at least to me it is if you have a compressed folder or any file that you want to have more options to when you drag and drop it instead of using your left Mouse button try to use your right Mouse button so I got this right here this little zip file I'm going to go ahead and click on my right Mouse button and I'm going to drag it and drop it and it gives me all of these different options I can extract it here so if I click extract it extracts all the documents into a folder but you can also do this like for instance say you want to copy this right here to another folder so I'm going to go ahead and open that folder up that we just created and I'm going to take this notes right here and normally if you click and drag it it will move it into the folder that you want it but let's say you don't want to move it so you want to just copy it so if I click the right button and drag it into this folder it'll give me options and from there I can hit copy and it'll copy it to there now I don't know about you but that tip right there I have used it in incredible amount since finding out about it while doing the research for this video and you know it's probably a tip I should have known about and if you knew about it let me know in the comments below but if you didn't hopefully it'll come in useful for you I know it really has for me in the last week since I figured it out okay so the next tip we're going to look at is one that I think comes in extremely handy especially if you're accustomed to using smartphones most people know that smartphones have a clipboard and you can store tons of different things on it you can copy several different things and paste them at different times but in Windows typically if you have like for instance just go ahead and open a notepad up right here normally if you hit copy and paste so I'm going to type copy here and then we're going to go ahead and highlight it right click and hit copy and then if you right click and hit paste it pastes the one thing now on the flip side let's say I write paste and then I highlight paste I hit copy and then go down to my next line and do the same thing and I hit paste it gives me paste but now let's say I want to paste the word copy like I did before well that's okay the easiest way to do that is instead of just hitting Ctrl V for your paste like you normally would instead hit Windows V and it opens up your clip clipboard this clipboard will store all the different things that you've copied and pasted over time like right here my YouTube address now the clipboard function might be turned off on your system and if it is it'll still open the clipboard but it'll tell you right there that it's turned off so you'll have to push a button to turn it on and go ahead and push the button because this comes in really handy and just remember when you paste from now on hit Windows V instead of control V when you do a paste and it should open the clipboard up automatically okay so the next one we're going to do is since we're copying and pasting sometimes it might be a good idea or you may need a screen shot of your Windows desktop or whatever program you might be using and the easiest way to do that is by typing the Windows key and print screen at the same time the screen will go dark for a second and it will take a screenshot of the screen so if we go into our pictures and go into our screenshot you can see that now we have a screenshot of our screen but let's just say you don't need the whole screen say you just want a section of it like for instance say you want to take a screenshot of our notepad open right here the way you do that is by holding the Windows key shift and S and that'll open up the Snipping Tool and with the Snipping Tool all you got to do is take the part of the screen you want and highlight it just like this and there you go it'll take a screenshot just of the section you highlighted so if we go down into our pictures now and into our screenshots as you can see there's a screenshot of just a notepad now this next tip this is one that I've used for a really long time and that tip is Windows shake what you would do is you would take the top of whatever window you happen to be using and you shake it and it would make everything else minimize now this is a really common feature that I'm sure everyone knew about but they disabled it in Windows 11 for some reason let me show you how to turn it on again so what you do is go ahead and open up your settings and then from settings go into system and then scroll down to multitasking and from here you'll see title bar window shake and go ahead and turn that on and once you turn it on go ahead and give it a test so we're going to take say we want this to be the only screen that's open all we do is shake it and everything else disappears now let's say you want everything to come back you do the same thing go ahead and grab the title bar and shake it and everything comes back the way it was before now honestly I don't know why they disabled this feature in Windows 11. it's kind of annoying actually but it's nice that they give you a really easy way to re-enable it so let's move on to the next tip this next tip is probably a little obvious but I just wanted to point it out for people because there might be some people that don't realize the power of the Task Manager in Windows so let's go ahead and right click on our taskbar open up task manager here and I want to go to the performance tab specifically this is the tab that I want to concentrate on right here for this specific tip if you ever need any kind of Hardware info on a computer and let's say you just don't have the software you normally would use to give yourself detailed Hardware info that's okay because there's an amazing amount of information that you can learn from the task manager right here for instance on my CPU you can tell which CPU you have you can find out the base speed for the CPU the current speed it's running at as well as the utilization which comes in really handy but on top of that it also shows you the amount of cores and the amount of logical processors and if if you continue down here you can see a lot of different information like for instance I have virtualization disabled if you happen to be using something like virtualbox to run virtual machines it wouldn't be a good idea to keep that disabled and it's an easy way to find out if that's the case by simply looking at the performance tab in your task manager and another neat little feature here is if you go into memory it also shows you the speed that your memory is currently running at so if you have like in my case like I have PC 3200 if you want to know that your system is actually running it at 3200 you can easily tell from the performance tab inside a task manager and also if you look right here where it says slots used this comes in a lot for me especially when I'm looking at a notebook and I want to know how many slots the computer has and how the memory is distributed in those slots because I may have a customer that has low memory and I want to upgrade it for them so I want to know how I can quote for how much that memory is going to cost based on if they have a free slot or not so so in this case I'm using 32 gigs of RAM and I have no free slots because I've got four of four but if you highlight your mouse over the 404 it will actually tell you exactly what capacity module is in which slot and honestly I think that comes in really really handy and then also as you go through the list here there's lots of other information that you can find on here like for your SSD the capacity and current write speeds and things of that nature as well as in your ethernet you can get your IP address not only your ipv4 but also your version 6 IP address and this is going to be more applicable to your local network than it is going to be your external network obviously this right here is my internal IP addresses but it does give me my DNS name as well as different information like that and then if you go down to GPU it also breaks your GPU down into different categories like for instance right now the video encoding is at 70 percent and obviously the reason for that is because I'm screening recording this for YouTube so you can actually take the different functions of your GPU and kind of break them up a little bit so you can see exactly what your GPU is doing in real time and on this one also is within the task manager you do get the GPU temperature which I don't know if this works with all different gpus it does in the case of this one which is an RTX 3060. you can check this out on yours and if it doesn't show your temperature let me know in the comments below I'd like to know kind of how Universal the temperature is on this one but it is another thing that would be really nice to have that for CPU but unfortunately I guess you can't ask for everything okay so now the next tip that I want to show you is another really neat one and that one has to do with your alt tab if you click alt tab it'll give you all the different applications that are running but for instance let's say you have something like in my case I have Chrome minimized right now and it's not being used so what I can do is if I push the delete key while continuing to hold alt if I I hit delete it will actually kill that app while it's running and I can essentially do that with everything that's running through the alt tab interface so that was 10 tips they were pretty good tips I think some of them I'm sure you knew about some of them you probably didn't so remember let me know in the comments below which tips you didn't know about but I did promise you a bonus tip and that bonus tip is coming right now and I just have to warn you ahead of time how worthless this tip is it really provides no function at all but really awesome at the same time let me show you okay so this tip specifically has to do with YouTube not Windows itself but I had to keep it into this list because it was just too cool to leave out so I'm going to go ahead and open up Chrome here I'm going to open up YouTube I'm going to go to my page right here and we're just going to randomly click on a video let's go ahead and hit this one right here and we're going to jump ahead a little bit so we have some taskbar right here and then what you're going to want to do here is as you can see the taskbar just shows you essentially where you are in the video and it's just a boring Red Line however we're going to Jazz this up a little bit and to do that all you got to do is type the word awesome make sure you're not clicking on anything else on the screen right here so make sure that you're only in the video and you're not in the search bar because you don't want to search for it and then all you have to do is just type awe s-o-m-e for awesome and you get this really psychedelic blinking taskbar which like I said was completely worthless but it is awesome right I think it's pretty awesome unfortunately it doesn't stay that way for every time you go to a page you're gonna have to do the same thing so if we click on the same video again we jump ahead oh look at that it does actually stay I wonder if it stays through closing the browser let's do a little experiment we're going to learn we're going to learn live here okay so I'm going to close the browser we're going to open a new one up we're going to go back into YouTube we're going to go back into videos back into this video and nope it doesn't look like it stays that way through closing your browser but it does look like it stays that way at least in your current session so let's test this again real quick a w e s o m e so we got it blinking now we're going to click on another video Let's click on this one right here and see what it does and there we go it's psychedelic yeah you know very worthless tip but still cool nonetheless so were any of these tips new to you let me know in the comments below if there was anything I gave you that you didn't know before also let me know which one of these was your favorite tip I think mine was probably the translucent command prompt but you let me know what yours was this video definitely covered a lot of really basic Windows tips if you want some more advanced tips then check out this video where I give you some pretty cool registry tweaks for Windows 11. also if you like that video there's a part two as well as always you guys have a great day

Channel: CyberCPU Tech

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Keywords: Windows 11 tips, windows 10 tips, windows tips you must know, do you know these windows tips, windows tips, hide desktop icons, old control panel, right click pinned icons, mouse buttons, windows clipboard, windows screenshot, window shake, performance tab in task manager, press delete in alt tab, microsoft windows, windows 10, windows 11

Id: DLbg7ccA_EY

Length: 17min 38sec (1058 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 30 2023