On Taskbar Text Labels
Having identical text of “Mi…” repeated next to every Microsoft program doesn’t help the you find your application. It provides no value and slows you down. Just look at this, this mess isn’t improving usability:
Having identical text of “Mi…” repeated next to every Microsoft program doesn’t help the you find your application. It provides no value and slows you down. Just look at this, this mess isn’t improving usability:
Today I am sharing an awesome Android app that minimalizes obtrusive screen-obscuring notifications while at the same time providing more detail. Check out this side-by-side comparison.
If you sign-in to your PC using a Microsoft Account, you may be unable to connect to that with Remote Desktop or with network file sharing, or locally schedule tasks using that account. Here’s how to fix it.
Judging by how many ways they’ve come up with to solve it, I guess Microsoft believes everyone has a hard time finding their mouse pointer on their big giant displays these days. Here’s my methods.
When you’re driving down the freeway and your favorite song comes on the radio, I bet you can reach out and adjust the volume knob without ever taking your eyes off the road: your muscle memory kicks in, and you instinctively know where to reach without even looking. This is a practical demonstration of Fitts’ Law.
Although it seems like every Excel workbook that you open is a standalone instance, Excel is basically still the MDU application it’s always been. The Office team deploys some clever tricks to hide it, but in some situations it becomes apparent. Let’s explore.
At launch, the Xbox Series S/X systems were very inefficient power-wise, drawing nearly 30 watts of juice in standby mode, 24 hours a day. With 12 million consoles sold and counting, this was projected to require 4 billion kWh of electricity within just a few years. This is as much as a year’s output from a large power plant, releasing more than 3 million tons of CO2 into our air just to power consoles that weren’t even being used. Things have improved, but it needs you to flip the switch.
Folder names in File Explorer don’t necessarily reflect the actual name of the directory. But why?
Why would you keep your garbage can on your desk anyway? Here’s how to add Recycle Bin to your Explorer navigation pane so it’s readily available anytime you’re working with files.
The last time I shared some weather apps, my list included apps for Windows Phone and Windows 8, replete with live tile callouts. So, it has been a while. Let’s look at what I’m using in 2022.
Not long ago, a new feature made its way to Chromium (including Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge) that aimed to reduce CPU utilization and boost battery longevity. But this occlusion calculation and throttling feature can also cause problems for situations that don’t work when your browser puts a webpage or tab to sleep – such as using your web browser as your phone system.
If you use Windows remote desktop and especially if you have a high-resolution display, there’s some different DPI and scaling behavior between versions that might interest you.
Overly dense QR codes are difficult to scan, especially at a distance. So here’s a pro tip to give your visitors a better experience and faster, more reliable scanning: first remove all unnecessary text and info from your link before you create a QR code for it.
I use 3 separate browser profiles and needed a way to tell them apart on my taskbar, so I gave each profile a bold color theme and made matching hue-shifted icon for it to pin to the Windows taskbar.
Today’s cheap trick is a little script you can use to schedule your Windows dark/light themes by the time of day.
The already absolutely fantastic Windows Terminal has a cool new trick: a Quake-like shade you can drop down over your desktop workspace anytime by typing Win+`.
With waves of ransomware and hacks hitting users more and more each passing day, I thought I’d share a few simple steps you can take to help protect your files and avoid falling victim to these extortion scams, including Windows’s built-in ransomware protection function.
Are you tired of spawning a web search for “how to get help” when you accidentally brush the F1 key? Or are you like me and get annoyed if Scroll-Lock or Overtype (insert mode) get turned on? Here’s how to nullify these keys easily with Microsoft’s PowerToys’s Keyboard Manager utility.
I need to give some tough criticism here. The Mail app in Windows 10 is so unreliable that it really diminishes the perception of reliability for the entire operating system. I have for so long wished that I could write a blog post about the virtues of using it for all the great shell integration, but I can’t.
When an app is out of bounds, most users describe it as an app that opens but isn’t visible, or that they can see a thumbnail preview of it on the taskbar or alt-tab, but it’s nowhere to be seen.
The new Microsoft Edge allows you to install websites as applications so they open in their own window and work like a real app. But what if you want to pin multiple versions of the same app?