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External Drive

Tip of the Day: Keep Your Backup Drive Full

Blocked Senders

Tip of the Day: Don’t Bother Blocking Senders

Time Zone in Windows 10

Tip of the Day: Confirm Your Time Zone

USB Ports

Tip of the Day: Try Another USB Port

Send To Mail Recipient

Tip of the Day: Configure an Email Program (Even if You Don’t Use One)

Tip of the Day: Run CHKDSK Periodically

Virus Detected

Tip of the Day: Damage Assessment Can’t be Relied On

Pause syncing in OneDrive.

Tip of the Day: Pause Cloud Sync

Credit Card

Tip of the Day: Get a PIN Before You Go

Check for Updates

Tip of the Day: Check for Updates to Get the Latest

Begin

Tip of the Day: Share What You Learn

Back Button History

Tip of the Day: the History in the Back Button

Play a sound when you press Caps Lock,...

Tip of the Day: Play a Sound for Caps Lock

A Location, Shared

Tip of the Day: Share Your Location with Friends

Answering the Phone

Tip of the Day: Don’t Answer the Phone

Previous Windows installation(s)

Tip of the Day: Back Up and then Delete Windows.old

Searching for *.txt

Tip of the Day: Use Wildcards in Search

Screenshots Folder

Tip of the Day: Move the Windows Screenshots Folder

CD to the TMP folder.

Tip of the Day: Visit (and Clean) the Temp Folder in Windows Command Prompt

Command Prompt Opened to Folder

Tip of the Day: Open Command Prompt in File Explorer’s Displayed Folder

The Responsibility is Yours

Tip of the Day: You’re the One Responsible

Enable shortcut underlines

Tip of the Day: View Keyboard Shortcuts on Menus

Windows 11 Desktop

Tip of the Day: Quit Relying on the Desktop

List Accounts

Tip of the Day: List ALL the Accounts on Your Machine

Create New Shortcut

Tip of the Day: A Shortcut to Lock Your Computer

Windows 11 Start Menu

Tip of the Day: CTRL+ESC for the Start Menu

YouTube Security Reminder

Tip of the Day: Don’t Ignore Security Reminders

Stop Spam - Twice!

Tip of the Day: Your Two Spam Filters

Windows 11 Version

Tip of the Day: Get the Windows Version Quickly

UAC via keyboard.

Tip of the Day: Drive UAC with the Keyboard

UAC

Tip of the Day: Admin in a Keystroke

Worst Case Scenario

Tip of the Day: Plan for the Worst

1Password export dialog.

Tip of the Day: Back Up Your Password Vault

Recuva

Tip of the Day: Run Recuva Even When You Don’t Need It

Cypher

Tip of the Day: the Free-Space Wiper You Already Have

Network Connections

Tip of the Day: Wi-Fi Speed Is Often Irrelevant

Meme

Tip of the Day: Stop Responding to Silly Facebook Quizzes

Five lines of text. Or is it?

Tip of the Day: A Line Isn’t Always a Line

Please Wait

Tip of the Day: Turn It On and Walk Away for a While

Android is Blocking Notifications

Tip of the Day: Turn Off Individual Android App Notifications

Kindle Cloud Reader

Tip of the Day: You Don’t Need a Kindle to Read Kindle Books

Gift Card Danger

Tip of the Day: Requests for Gift Cards Are a Sign of a Scam

Get Adobe Reader

Tip of the Day: Install Acrobat Reader

Windows Defender Offline scan in progress.

Tip of the Day: Microsoft Defender Offline Scan

Downloads folder set to a Dropbox sub-folder

Tip of the Day: Consider Moving Your Browser’s Downloads Folder

Install for All Users

Tip of the Day: Install for All Users

Gmail before operator

Tip of the Day: Gmail Before and After

Address Bar & Search Box

Tip of the Day: Don’t Use Search to Visit a Site

Windows Mail in Windows 11

Tip of the Day: Consider the Mail App

Scam!

Tip of the Day: If It Sounds Too Good To Be True…