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Tip of the Day: Tone Down Edge’s Marketing Efforts

Tip of the Day: Protect Your History

SD Card Write Protect

Tip of the Day: Prevent Accidents with Write Protection

Tip of the Day: Get Rid of Edge’s Download Menu

edge://flags

Tip of the Day: Edge Experimental Flags

Browser History in Google Chrome

Tip of the Day: Use Your Browser History to Your Advantage

netplwiz

Tip of the Day: Log In Automatically

A Facebook Game App Requesting Permissions

Tip of the Day: Skip the Games

Auto-play setting in Windows 10

Tip of the Day: Turn Off AutoPlay

Thumb's Up!

Tip of the Day: You See What You Like

Hotspot List in CMD

Tip of the Day: View Remembered Wireless Networks in Command Prompt

Hide Empty Drives option

Tip of the Day: Show All Drives in File Explorer

Compressing a Zip File

Tip of the Day: Compression Can Make Files Bigger

Most Recent on Facebook

Tip of the Day: Facebook Recent Posts

Off-site Backups

Tip of the Day: Off-site Backup

Get Alerts from Facebook

Tip of the Day: Get Log-in Alerts from Facebook

Clip

Tip of the Day: the Clip Command

Data Usage in Settings

Tip of the Day: Check Your Data Usage

Google Chrome

Tip of the Day: Test a Chromebook by Using Only Chrome

Finger on Wheel of Computer Mouse

Tip of the Day: Mouse Wheel Click

Pin to Start on Settings

Tip of the Day: Pin Settings to Start

Image shared in Dropbox.

Tip of the Day: Change “?dl=0” In Shared Dropbox Links to Download

Turn off Vertical Tabs in Edge

Tip of the Day: Turn Off Vertical Tabs

Windows: Very Big.

Tip of the Day: Make Windows HUGE

CTRL+Click for New Tab

Tip of the Day: CTRL+Click to Open New Tabs

Google Auth in Lastpass

Tip of the Day: Set Recovery Options for Your Password Vault

OneNote

Tip of the Day: If You Have Office, Check OneNote

GMail in Plain HTML

Tip of the Day: GMail’s HTML Mode

Wordpad

Tip of the Day: Try the Word Processor You Already Have

Router Reset

Tip of the Day: Learn How to Factory Reset Your Router

Using SUBST

Tip of the Day: The SUBST Command

Facebook: Access Denied!

Tip of the Day: Don’t Rely on Facebook for Storage

Thinking

Tip of the Day: The Answer to “Is It Safe to…”

Malicious Messenger Message

Tip of the Day: No, You’re Not In that Video

ESC key

Tip of the Day: Cancel that Mouse Click with ESC

Touch Keyboard

Tip of the Day: View Full Headers on Outgoing Mail

Accept Cookies?

Tip of the Day: Don’t Blindly Accept Cookies

Browser Tabs

Tip of the Day: Quit Relying on Tabs to Remember

All Your Eggs in One Basket?

Tip of the Day: If You’re Concerned About Losing It, It’s Not Backed Up

Example Email

Tip of the Day: Use BCC, but Use It Sparingly

A shortcut

Tip of the Day: Understanding Shortcuts

A URL pasted into the address bar.

Tip of the Day: Copy/Paste Instead of Clicking a Link

Google Voice

Tip of the Day: Google Voice for Text Messaging

Router

Tip of the Day: Check for Router Firmware Updates

OneDrive Enabling Disabling

Tip of the Day: Disable OneDrive in Windows 10

A few tabs in Google Chrome

Tip of the Day: Close Tabs to Speed Up Other Things

Tip of the Day: There Are Other Recycle Bins

Email recipient fields

Tip of the Day: Use Carbon Copy (CC) Sparingly

Pasting with and without formatting.

Tip of the Day: Paste Without Formatting

Windows 10 Quick Actions

Tip of the Day: Clean Up Quick Actions