{"id":30767,"date":"2025-09-14T10:36:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T14:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=30767"},"modified":"2025-09-14T11:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T15:09:09","slug":"four-little-windows-tricks-for-windows-10-and-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/four-little-windows-tricks-for-windows-10-and-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Little Tricks for Windows 10 and 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><span class=\"auto-style1\">Four Little Tricks for <\/span>Windows 10 and 11<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>1\u00a0\u2014 Copying the contents of a Windows dialog box.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Do you want to copy the contents of a Windows dialog box? Just click anywhere inside the box, press Ctrl + C, open Notepad, and press Ctrl+V.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>2 \u00a0\u2014 Navigate to your \u201chome\u201d folder in Windows.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">In Windows 10 and Windows 11, your home folder is the default folder for your username, which contains folders such as \u201cPictures\u201d, \u201cMusic\u201d, and \u201cDocuments\u201d. Would you like to get to your \u201chome folder\u201d fast? OK!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Press the Windows Key + R and type \u201c.\u201d in the Run dialog and press Enter. That\u2019s quotation mark, period, quotation mark \u2013 just to make it clear. This takes you right to your home folder \u2013 just like that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>3 \u00a0\u2014 Want to get the full scoop about your Windows system?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Press the Windows Key + R<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">In the run dialog type MSINFO32<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Press Enter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">There you go\u2026 everything you ever wanted to know and more!<strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>4 \u2014 A quick way to see all the programs starting with Windows.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">1. Press the Windows key + R. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">2. In the Run box, type WMIC and press Enter<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">3. In the Command prompt, which opens, you\u2019ll see wmic:root\\cli&gt;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">4. At the prompt, type startup and press Enter<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">5. If you did all that correctly, you\u2019ll see a list of programs that start with Windows (shown below)\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2023\/wmicstart.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"600\" height=\"465\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">as well as their installation directories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2023\/wmicstart1a.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"600\" height=\"176\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">And that\u2019s all there is to it!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>A little reminder!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">When typing any of the commands shown in this article please remember that they must be entered exactly as shown or, boo hoo, they won\u2019t work. So please feel free to copy and paste any or all of the commands shown in the article above. Remember we tested this command on both Windows 10 and Windows 11 and they do work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"auto-style801\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/line18a.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve Premium\" width=\"600\" height=\"4\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Four Little Tricks for Windows 10 and 11 1\u00a0\u2014 Copying the contents of a Windows dialog box. Do you want to copy the contents of a Windows dialog box? Just click anywhere inside the box, press Ctrl + C, open Notepad, and press Ctrl+V. 2 \u00a0\u2014 Navigate to your \u201chome\u201d folder in Windows. In Windows 10 and\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/four-little-windows-tricks-for-windows-10-and-11\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4353,3948,4221,4299,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30767"}],"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=30767"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30771,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30767\/revisions\/30771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}