Tech
indulgences into my geek side
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Schedule Light and Dark Mode
Today’s cheap trick is a little script you can use to schedule your Windows dark/light themes by the time of day.
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Start Windows Terminal Quake Mode at Logon
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+`.
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Help Protect Your Files from Ransomware in Windows
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.
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Disable or Reassign Keys with PowerToys Keyboard Manager
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.
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The Return of PowerToys
Power users rejoice at the return of these powerful time savers first introduced more 25 years ago.
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UX Matters: Windows Mail
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.
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Recover an Off-Screen Window
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.
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Customizing Edge Web App Pins
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?
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Add Resource Monitors to your Windows Taskbar
Windows 10 includes a system built-in resource monitor you can pin to your desktop as a graphical or text display.
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Delay Windows Screen Lock
Have you ever been at your device when the screen goes to sleep, only to be asked for your password even though you woke it up just a second later? Or have you ever wished you could have a separate timer for the screen sleeping and a longer delay for actually locking your device?