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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

Laptop theft

Tip of the Day: Reformat Your Recovered Computer

Gmail Drafts

Tip of the Day: Check Your Drafts Regularly

Revo Uninstaller

Tip of the Day: Have an Uninstaller Handy

Disk Cleanup and Windows Update Cleanup

Tip of the Day: Clean Up After Major Updates

Changing the Save format in Libre Office

Tip of the Day: Change the Default Format for Office Alternatives

Quick Access Toolbar in Microsoft Word

Tip of the Day: The Office Quick Access Toolbar

Edge Share, Copy, Paste option

Tip of the Day: Paste the URL, Not the Link, in Edge

Gmail on the web

Tip of the Day: Use Your Email’s Web Interface

A typical pop-up.

Tip of the Day: Look for the X

A picture displayed on Facebook

Tip of the Day: Save a Facebook Image

Move things around on your bookmarks bar

Tip of the Day: Re-arrange Your Bookmarks Bar with Drag and Drop

Explorer Details View

Tip of the Day: Explorer Can Show So Much More

Microsoft OneDrive (with Office)

Tip of the Day: Buy OneDrive, Get Office for Free!

Don't Block your ISP

Tip of the Day: Don’t Block Your ISP

Primary & Alternate Emails

Tip of the Day: Have a Less Restrictive Alternate Account

Internet Explorer - Just Say No

Tip of the Day: Stop Using Internet Explorer

Tip of the Day: USB as a Ubiquitous Power Source

Wikipedia

Tip of the Day: Wikipedia Is Better than You Think

Search Results

Tip of the Day: Windows File Explorer Search

Home button in Microsoft Edge

Tip of the Day: Change Your Browser’s Home Page

Edge

Tip of the Day: “Start Up Boost” May Slow You Down

Get Off My Lawn!

Tip of the Day: “Software Program” is Redundant

Protected View in Microsoft Office Excell

Tip of the Day: Don’t Ignore Protected View

Firefox's Default Display

Tip of the Day: ALT May Restore Menus

Windows Security Notifications settings

Tip of the Day: Turn Off Useless Defender Notifications

Email and Arrows

Tip of the Day: Sending and Receiving Email are Two Separate Things

Endpoints

Tip of the Day: You’re Only as Secure as Your Endpoints

Command Prompt's Edit menu

Tip of the Day: Copy Text Out of Command Prompt

End of Support for Office 2010

Tip of the Day: Update Microsoft Office

Evil Reply

Tip of the Day: Be Careful, Even With Replies

Open with

Tip of the Day: Quickly Change the Default App for a File Type

Restart Needed

Tip of the Day: Restart as Soon as Practical When Alerted

Sign out option in Google

Tip of the Day: Sign Out

Page not found at a large ISP's help site

Tip of the Day: Archive.org to the Rescue of Missing Pages