Ever go to post a picture on Facebook and have to dig around your hard drive looking for the file? Well a simple solution to that is to right click on the file while holding the shift key, and click “copy as path”. Then you can paste that into the browse window, it will show you the right folder you need to be in, as well as the file name.
Mac and Linux have had this for years, but now windows has caught up. You can press windows key + Tab and then press the “+ New Desktop” button. You can then click on the desktop to access it. Use windows key + tab again to switch back.
Now in windows 10, you can tie your product key (license for windows) to your Microsoft account. All you need to do is first verify that your computer is activated in Settings>Update & Security>Activation.
Then you can navigate to Settings>Accounts>Your Info. Click sign in with a Microsoft account. Enter your account details and voila you will have automatically associated it with your license. You can double check in the activation window to see if it has taken effect. You will see “Windows is activated with a digital license linked to your Microsoft account” if it worked.
Doing this allows you to activate windows after a reinstall or move to a new machine, just by signing into your Microsoft account.
Big files clog up your hard drive and many of them are just garbage that you can delete. Instead of downloading a utility to do find them, you can use Windows Explorer. Simply type ‘size:gigantic’ into the Search box and Windows will show you all the files that are larger than 128MB in the folder (and sub-folders) you’re currently browsing. Delete any you’re sure you don’t need.
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