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Six Windows Tips We Use Almost Every Day<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Here are a few Windows tips we use almost every day. These tips save time and are super easy and we\u2019re going to share them with you. These tips work in Windows 10 and Windows 11.<\/span><\/p>\n 1: Bring up the Lock Screen<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n If you press the Windows Key + L, it will bring up the lock screen in Windows 10.\u00a0 If you use a password Windows Key + L will \u201clock\u201d your Windows PC until you enter your password or PIN.<\/span><\/p>\n 2: Make any word or phrase a hyperlink<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n If you want to make a link out of a word or a phrase, like \u201cVisit our InfoAve Website<\/a>\u201c, it\u2019s super easy to do. Select the word or words you want to make into a hyperlink and press CTRL+K. A dialog will appear. In the dialog type or paste the URL (website address) and press Enter. If you did that correctly, the word or words you highlighted are now a clickable hyperlink. This works with most word processors and email programs. It also works in Gmail. Try it!<\/span><\/p>\n 3: Open a new instance of a program with just the click of your mouse<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Did you know on most computer mice, you can click the scroll wheel? You can and we call it the \u201cmiddle mouse button\u201d. If you middle-click on the taskbar of an open program, it will open a new instance of that program. Try it. It works with Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Edge Dev, Notepad, File Explorer (Windows 10), (Windows Explorer in Windows 7), Thunderbird, and many other programs. This will work with any program that allows multiple instances to run.<\/span><\/p>\n 4: Open the Task Manager with a keyboard shortcut<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Just press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC and Task Manager will open.<\/span><\/p>\n 5: Hide all open windows in a hurry<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n If you want to clear all open windows from your screen quickly, press the Windows Key and the M key. To reopen them again, press Windows Key+SHIFT+ M.<\/span><\/p>\n 6: Get the full right-click menu on Windows 11 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n By default, Windows 11’s right-click context menu is limited; you have to click “Show more options” to see the entire menu. If you want to see the full context menu, hold down the CTRL key while you right-click a file or folder.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Six Windows Tips We Use Almost Every Day Here are a few Windows tips we use almost every day. These tips save time and are super easy and we\u2019re going to share them with you. These tips work in Windows 10 and Windows 11. 1: Bring up the Lock Screen If you press the Windows Key +\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3948,4299,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26971"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26976,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26971\/revisions\/26976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}