Keyboard shortcuts are a useful way of improving productivity and completing sometimes monotonous tasks with greater ease. This can be as simple as typing 2 keys and producing a predetermined phrase, ...

How many of you actually Safely eject the USB stick from your PC? Not many, I am sure. We have this habit of just pulling out the USB drive randomly from the PC, without safely ejecting it, which ...

Although Windows 11 includes an option to switch between Dark and Light modes, you need to go through a lot of steps to toggle that. If you often need the Dark mode on your computer, you can use a ...

While working in the Windows File Manager, you can right-click an item and turn it into a shortcut by selecting "Create Shortcut." When you use this method, File Manager places a new shortcut in the ...

Windows 8 significantly changed the Windows interface, which can make it hard to find programs you're used to opening frequently. The Start menu, which used to list Windows accessories like Notepad, ...

Contributors to Microsoft's revived take on its 1990s-era PowerToys tool are working on a new keyboard manager that will let users remap a computer's keys. The keyboard effort builds on Microsoft's ...

Almost all of us who use a Windows laptop everyday at work are aware of the basic shortcuts like Ctrl+C to copy, Ctrl+V to paste, Ctrl+Z to undo mistakes. But if you think that’s all your Windows ...

For those longing for the days of Windows 95 and its useful collection of PowerToys utilities, Microsoft is letting you add helpful little extensions that make Microsoft's desktop more delightful to ...

I'm the sole Mac user in a Windows-based company, and all of our files are stored in a collection of Windows Server shares in a whole bunch of relatively organized directories. We frequently include ...

Depending on settings, turning off your Windows 11 PC the conventional way may not completely shutdown your system. That takes an extra step: I’ll show you how. Image: Mark Kaelin/TechRepublic. Most ...

To hide a folder, create the folder, right-click it, select "Properties," enable "Hidden," and choose Apply > OK. Create a shortcut to the folder, right-click it, select "Properties," click "Shortcut ...