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God Mode Settings

Tip of the Day: God Mode

Pro in the About Box

Tip of the Day: Get Pro, not Home, if You Have a Choice

Tip of the Day: F11 Is for Focus

Dates

Tip of the Day: Check the Date

Restricting Search

Tip of the Day: Restrict Windows Search

Triple Clicking

Tip of the Day: Try Triple Click

Question Marks in URLs?

Tip of the Day: Question Marks in URLs

Documents Properties

Tip of the Day: Move Any Default Folder

System Protection

Tip of the Day: Reduce the Number of Restore Points

Screenshot of the Telegram App

Tip of the Day: Screenshots Are Forever

Spam

Tip of the Day: Spam, Junk, or Bulk?

Advanced Sharing

Tip of the Day: A Cheap, Two-Step NAS

Thumbdrive

Tip of the Day: You’ll Probably Lose that Thumb Drive. Plan Ahead.

Where to get Apps setting in Windows 11.

Tip of the Day: Get Apps From Anywhere (or Not)

An extremely bulging battery.

Tip of the Day: Don’t Ignore that Bulging Battery

A password in notepad.

Tip of the Day: Use Notepad For Passwords

Taskbar

Tip of the Day: Double Down on the Taskbar

Starting Windows Backup

Tip of the Day: Windows Built-in Backup is Better than None

Using site:microsoft.com.

Tip of the Day: site:microsoft.com For Better Results

A Location, Shared

Tip of the Day: Share Your Location with Friends

Searching for *.txt

Tip of the Day: Use Wildcards in Search

Screenshots Folder

Tip of the Day: Move the Windows Screenshots Folder

Windows 11 Desktop

Tip of the Day: Quit Relying on the Desktop

YouTube Security Reminder

Tip of the Day: Don’t Ignore Security Reminders

Stop Spam - Twice!

Tip of the Day: Your Two Spam Filters

UAC

Tip of the Day: Admin in a Keystroke

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

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…

Chromebook

Tip of the Day: Consider a Chromebook

Locked

Tip of the Day: Back Up Encrypted Data Unencrypted

Walter on the Beach

Tip of the Day: Discover Image Search

RAM

Tip of the Day: Make Sure You Can Add RAM

Windows Search Service

Tip of the Day: Turn Off Content Indexing for Speed

Dell Software

Tip of the Day: Pay Attention to Your Manufacturer’s Software Too

Opening a text file in WordPad

Tip of the Day: Why Not WordPad?

Tearing Off and Replacing a Browser Tab,

Tip of the Day: Tear Off Your Tabs

High Contrast offer

Tip of the Day: High Contrast in a Keystroke

Tip of the Day: Don’t Pay for Free (Unless You Want To)

OneDrive Mobile App

Tip of the Day: Access Files on Your Smartphone