14 Computer Tricks You Wish You Learned Sooner
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- There are 3 types of computer users: the ones who use their mouse, those who use their keyboard, and those who prefer talking to Cortana or Siri. No matter which category you fall into, you can’t deny the immense usefulness of certain shortcuts and hacks that reveal the unknown possibilities your computer always had. These smart tricks improve your everyday computer experience and give an absolute boost in your productivity and in your security.
We collected 14 computer hacks that will be massively helpful to anyone using their computer for fun or business.
TIMESTAMPS:
1. Ctrl + T opens a new tab 0:54
2. Ask Google about any problem you’re facing before going to a PC expert 1:24
3. For currency conversions, use the Google search bar instead of a calculator 1:57
4. A laptop battery charges faster when in airplane mode 2:27
5. Download any Google image automatically by pressing Alt and clicking on it 2:57
6. Hide your IP address so that nobody sees what you’re doing 3:29
7. Download “f.lux” to make your computer’s screen brightness adjust automatically to its surroundings 3:57
8. A clean desktop means a faster computer 4:35
9. Find out who’s stealing your Wi-Fi 5:04
10. You can recover deleted files even if you’ve emptied the recycle bin 5:37
11. If you notice these signs, your computer has been hacked 6:14
12. Windows + C enables you to start talking to Cortana 6:49
13. Ctrl + Q quits your web browser 7:30
14. Ctrl + I turns the text style into italics 7:55
#hotkeys #computerhacks #computertricks
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SUMMARY:
- Opening new tabs is an action that you do countless times during the day. Instead of doing it manually with your mouse, you can simply press “ctrl” and the letter T and a new tab will open.
- You can type your problem into the Google search bar and read what Microsoft or the various tech forums have to tell you.
- If you’re traveling abroad and you need to see how much money you will get with the exchange, you can simply write down the amount of money and the currencies of the country where you’re traveling.
- When your laptop is on airplane mode it means that many features, like your Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, are disabled. This takes some pressure off your battery and allows it to charge faster than if operating normally.
- You can simply push “alt” and then left click on an image and it will be automatically saved on your computer in your Downloads folder.
- There are various ways that can hide your IP address and make your browsing invisible. You need to install a good VPN on your internet browser so that it changes your real location.
- Most computers have the night shift mode, which adjusts the brightness during the night.
- If you are having problems with your computer’s speed, it might be the fact that your desktop is full of icons. Instead of having a folder for every little thing on your desktop, you can create one folder and organize everything in there.
- If you don’t just want to change your password, but also find out who the thief (or thieves) are, then you can download Who Is on My Wi-Fi and maybe go confront them.
- Deleting files and then emptying the recycling bin can prove to be very frustrating. What you can do is download Recuva, which is the top program to recover permanently deleted files.
-Millions of people get hacked every day and you might be one of them at some point. Seeing your antivirus being turned off is one of the first serious signs.
- Another tremendously useful shortcut is the one that exits your web browser. In this case, you press “ctrl” and then the letter Q.
- When combining the “ctrl” key and the letter I there are various things that can happen in a total of 147 different programs. However, the most ordinary and common use of the combo is to turn text in Word and other text editing programs from normal style into italics.
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Hey everyone! What do you use, PC or Mac, and why? 💻
Never Google these 10 things czcams.com/video/3zedhjlDdD4/video.html
PC
PC
are you greek
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keyboard it is in greek
ok
Ctrl+a= select all
Ctrl+c= copy
Ctrl+v= paste
Most effective shortcuts
Lone Wolf h
You forgot Alt+F4 ;)
True story if you repeat them in editor you can crash any pc
for me Ctrl+ALT+Delete
Ctrl+x= cut
Ctrl+z= undo
Ctrl+y= redo
Ctrl+[= makes highlighted words smaller
Ctrl+]= makes highlighted words bigger
I immediately tried the one on the thumbnail😂
Edit: To clarify, it worked and opens a new tab.
Did it work
@@AbsentPFP yes😂
lol same
Lol it did
Me too 🤣
I've found that the easiest way to deal with Cortana is to delete it from my computer entirely--and Siri from my iPhone.
i deleted her and she came back. worse than my ex wife.
Thanks for being precise and explaining well, keep up
agreed
@@7kortos7 OUCH!
So annoying .. frs
THEY FORGOT THE FOLLOWING: 1) center - CONTROL E; 2) bold - CONTROL B; 3) underline - CONTROL U; 4) close your word, powerpoint, excel documents - CONTROL W; 5) print document - CONTROL P; 6) change language (if you have 2 or more languages on your computer - ALT + SHIFT (HOLD ALT THEN PRESS SHIFT). These are the shortcuts I use all the time. Hope this helps. Almost forgot some very import computer shortcuts: CONTROL +Z - Undo previously typed work; CONTROL + C - copy highlighted work; CONTROL +V - past copied work. I use this to copy lengthy paragraphs into google translate, among other things. However, remember, if you have already "saved" your work and try to go back to "undo", it won't work.
HERE ARE THE REAL COMPUTER LIFE HACKS!!
Alt + Tab = switches windows
Ctrl + Tab = switches tabs
Ctrl + T = opens new tab
Alt + F4 = exits window
Ctrl + Shift + Esc = task manager
Ctrl + C = copy
Ctrl + V = paste
Win + L = lock screen
Win + I = settings
Ctrl+W removes a tab.
Thanks
No that's wrong!
Alt f4 makes Minecraft faster
SuperKitten950 no it doesnt how dum ru?
@@Ashot._ik I wanted to see if people would actually do it
How far the word “hack” has fallen...
Yup
So true
Funny cuz 2 of these softwares can give 12 viruses
So you are getting hacked 👌🏻
Shortcut
'you might have too many icons'
me: guiltily looks up at my 85 open tabs
I look at my 103 tabs
Really great ideas , hope there will be many more in the future , thanks so much .
Actually there are 10 types of computer users: those who understand binary and those who don't.
I get it
i got that joke
@@heshanjayasekara503 No, that joke redates the Internet and CZcams by decades.
1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 1024 2048 4096 8192 16384 32768 65536 131072 - Okay rfvtgbzhn ! Now convert this into BINARY for us PLEASE and thank you.. or at LEAST Hex
@@davidmacphee3549 1 10 100 1000 ...
I knew some of them but only 3-4. I'll try to use the other ones soon. Thank you.
The one I found most useful that wasn't mentioned here, as somebody who watched lots of anime was Ctrl + W . It closes the new tab that is usually a pop up ad, this way you don't need to move the mouse 7 million times between the play button and X. Just keep the mouse on the play and press if a new tab opens Ctrl + W. Saved me so many annoying seconds lol 😆
Thank you, I passed that tip on to my daughter who loves anime.
@@louisegogel7973 glad I could help 😁
Great stuff! I use a PC due to that is what I started on and have continued. Macs seem to be too expensive also.
Nice! I learned a lot. I’ll probably forget most of it, but I’ll definitely try them out!
6:02 this might also happen after a short time. Windows always writes things on the hard disk, so a even after a few seconds there is a chance that the file was already overwritten.
I've noticed that too. Because of that, I've not always been able to seen every file that's been deleted. Sigh.
Police forensics can bring back all deleted files surely, so they can't be totally lost
@@wanderer299a not true, it only works sometimes. Most of the time only a part of the deleted files can be recovered. CSI is not reality.
A true trick would be to know, that if you cannot update your windows computer, it might be because there is too much stuff in its update cashe. So if you clean it out, which you can probably use windows cleaner for (I use CC cleaner), then you can update again. You need to clean one thing at a time, else it will not work.
@@rfvtgbzhn Actually with real hard drives it _is_ true, albeit a tad expensive. Due to wear of the head actuating mechanism, the positioning of the head from the spindle varies, so a very much narrower head can often discriminate between several tracks on logically the same cylinder. Obviously this requires removing the platter from the drive and placing it in a purpose-built and very expensive drive mechanism. Obviously solid state drives are not vulnerable to this insecurity.
hold shift + left/right arrows to select/highlight texts letter by letter, (hold ctrl as well to mark word by word). You can also mark line by line by pressing shift and up/down arrows.
Ctrl + Enter to change page in Word
Shift + Enter for new line without making a paragraph. (Not leaving/ignoring the spacing between the two lines)
Ctrl A to select the whole text.
ctrl+a: select all
ctrl+n: new window
ctrl+c: copy
ctrl+v: paste
ctrl+s: save
ctrl+p: print
ctrl+shift+q+q: log out
ctrl+w: delete tab
ctrl+shift+w: delete window
For Whoever Is Reading This...
I Hope You Become Rich And Famous!!!
Tank yoo!
Thanks! You too
Thx but not everyone wanna be rich and famous.
Thanks...you also🙋
i dont, i like having character and common sense lol.
Very useful, will use some of the tips. Thanks for the video!
"Ask Google about any problem you're facing..."
Which would work well IF the user knows how to properly phrase the problem. I may not know the correct terminology for various issues that have simple solutions -- if only I knew a concise, accurate way to state the issue.
Same
While watching the first trick I discovered a new trick so what happend was I was gonna press Ctrl + T but accidentally pressed Ctrl + R which led me to discover a new trick which was if you press Ctrl + R the page reloads.
It's not a new trick many of us know that.. But that is new trick for you as you didn't know that trick before...!!😇😇
Windows+D minimizes all open windows and goes to desktop.
:D
Or windows+ m
Everyone knows this
This is new...
Press & hold [windows]+D.
this video is as much as a life hack as "if you're thirsty, drink"
i see u all around youtube...or maybe its just the same profile i dunno
tasha vanhuss yep
well some people are kinda outdated and need this
hahahahahahahahahahhahahahahaha okay, i know im laughing too much. it really just deserves an "lol" but i still wanna laugh. so ahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahaha. ok, its not funny. bye.
You read my mind. I mean, I already knew you could use Google as a calculator-
Some of these I would never use, but some are quite useful. As for the Ctrl-T shortcut, I think what was said here really depends on how we browse. I personally do not like a lot of tabs in my browsing. I try to keep it clean and simple. This works well for me, but I understand it may not be OK for others. I just don't like having too many tabs.
Yup! I tend to have the _opposite_ problem-too many tabs because clicking links opens a new tab. Not mentioned here is the power of keyboard shortcuts under the left hand and mousing with the right combined.
just the opposite. 6 pinned and 9 others open at the moment. when all are view then will be down to 6 + maybe one or two. Just have not had a bit of time to look at the non-pinned so far the past couple days. Most are related to digital imaging programs I use.
Do Control W it will delete that tab
That what he said find out who’s using your Wi-Fi and confront that person is not necessary just change your routers default password wpa3 if your router supports it or just go with wpa2 aes this would make it extremely difficult for anyone to steal your Wi-Fi.
i love having 1000 tabs open
wow, 4 years later, still sounds new and fresh highly informative !! why didn't i knew this before !!!!!!!
I knew #1 but also if you hold the "control" key and click a link will open that link in a new tab. Holding "shift" will open a new browser window. Putting phones in Airplane mode should do the same. I never thought of that trick. Lesson learned. Thanks!
using the wheel by pressing it does the same as Ctrl + click on the link or also use R mouse the link and choose open in new tab.
The best part of this video was the background music at the start
kinda half cringe for me
@@mariax2628 yea
As an computer kid who is getting computer soon so I am definitely gonna watch it So I won't regret "i wish I learned this sooner"
Since you're young, and compiling a list of "things to not regret in the future," here's one you should add: Don't get married. Ever. You're welcome!
6:39 even my cursor started moving by itself and then I realised my wireless mouse is in my bag
Happens to me all the time and its always my wireless mouse!
The to get italics _even works for comments to videos here_
makes the text bold *This is a example*
*_This is a result of using both and on highlighted text_*
neat !
Wish that it were that easy with Android. (Yes, I know there's a way, but since I learned the same thing first in Windows, I have to take a moment to remember how with Android.
This was much better than the usual list of shortcuts. It was quite useful.
I will admit, this video did remind me to clear up my desktop. Removed like 15-20% of what I had, looks so much better now.
A Wonderful and Helpful video! Have you folks made a similar video for Chromebooks? Thanks.
The ultimate comp hack is *Alt+Tab*
Life saver!
Are you talking about playing games in school. Becuz i do it all the time lol
That i use in trouble times but if it not work then i used *ctrl+alt+delete*
@@greenwalltree lol,me too
Try windows logo + tab
I actually learned a few new things! Thanks!
Thank you for this as I found your help useful.
Do you have a similar video to use while on a tablet? There is no
"ctrl", "alt" or "delete" keys on my on-screen keyboard. I'd have to connect my keyboard but that has a connection glitch or a short.
Also I have a touch screen.
As a blind computer user I use these commands regularly. I am totally dependent on them.
But how would you see to use them?
@@David.L291 my computer and smart phone speak.
For PC, I usually use alt+f4 instead of ctrl+Q to close applications
Alt-F4 actually can do several different things - close a Window or close an App or logout - an overloading which annoys me when using Windows. I prefer using Command W to close a window but not risk quitting the App - and Command Q to quit the app without risking logging out.
This is interesting and most is useful. (Not quite sure how to Google for tech support help if my computer isn't working though...) But I was surprised not to see [ALT] - [PRT SCR]. That little gem has been on all versions since, at least WIN95. (I didn't know about this gem when I was using 3.1.)
For an "OLD" man these tips are great. Thankyou.
for Mac users, Command+space opens spotlight search, NOT Siri. most MacBooks set "hold command" as your Siri shortcut
2:56
Me: Immediately press alt+ LMB on BRIGHT SIDE's photo to check
did it work tho, caz it is not working for me?!
I love.bright side! No junk, No BS!
"who’s stealing your Wi-Fi" do you have a link to this item?
i search get tons of product in general, but none has that name to them to download
link to the item you talk about be helpful
No. 4 - downloading photos your way works for some people. For others (like myself) who need or want to "credit" the source later with dates, locations, etc., it is better to right click before saving. Important details should be added at the SAME TIME the image is saved for future reference. Just saying. Otherwise, ANOTHER GREAT VIDEO from BRIGHT SIDE.
I learned a lot of keyboard tricks way earlier, I ran a computer that had win95 for a few months without a mouse. I had a better computer with windows 98 on it so I didn't use it as much. The shortcuts haven't changed in years.
I loved win 98 2nd edition
Are you old enough to remember doing it on DOS? LOL
Thank you very much as the lessons are really useful, but I have got a problem that my windows search bar isn't working.
nice stock footage you got in the start ;)
OMG CTRL + T opens a new tab? oh, stop it, you !!
*Mindblown*
**exits video**
Nice after 30 plus years on a PC I learned a few things
I have band new HP Envy x360, new to with computers.
How can I used your information.
On my HP computer?
hey bright side, my mouse glitches on its own like a teleport and then sometimes clicks on its own, so is this a sign of it being hacked? Its just for a temporary time it made these glitches for about 30minutes and then stopped is this a sign? It also didn't do something like a person with a mouse would do it was like it would pause videos and go to the top of the screen. and stuff so is this a sign. I'm a little worried. I have also been having some problems with the touch pad on the laptop that is why I was using a mouse. Sorry it would teleport to the top of the screen.
I am nearly 80 and manage reasonably well with my laptop but I have never had a computing lesson so I find this sort of thing really helpful. More please!
SwishOdap Wll, I'm nearly 82 now so you maybe right!!
@@neesargon3497are u 83 or 84 this year grandpa...are u still alive
I learned this all from these boys in my class
In my day we had better things to teach girls in class than computer hacks. So sorry you missed out.
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A collection of the best ideas i have aver seen. Thank you.
I use PC. I purchased my first computer in 1978 and started writing accounting programs when I had to enter a program via keyboard every time I turned it on. Soon cassette recorders allowed me to actually save a program up to 11 lines reliably. After that disk drives came along and I could get serious about writing much longer programs. I used DOS and learned many keyboard shortcuts still used today by Windows operating systems (which came largely from DOS). I knew others who preferred Macs way back then but their keyboards did not have a numeric keypad which I considered mandatory for accounting type input. Therefore I never purchased a Mac for serious use.
Need alert
I like that last line: "Therefore I never purchased a Mac for serious use.
" which sums it up well.
To me, anybody who buys an Apple computer doesn't do any serious computing. They just have it to show how much money they can waste!
@@christopherknee5756 I know what you mean. In more recent times, I travelled to different companies to tutor or enter financial information using Quickbooks software. The version they had for Mac was terrible which exemplifies the waste.
My Mac when I’m loading homework: I am speed
My Mac when I nurse it for school: I am not speed speed is I
Me playing Minecraft and hear my mum
My Mac: I am slow
"CorTANa" 💀😂
"T as in Toy"
I'm constantly leaving "caps lock" on and finding a roll of upper case (yelling) text.
I've heard there's a way to change a line of text from uppercase to lowercase or lowercase to uppercase (decided to yell), how is that done? ;-)
Ctrl shift T will bring back your tab that you mistaken close on.
Ctrl shift esc will bring up the task manager.
You're welcome.
but. ctrl shift T does nothing for me
Did you delete your history???
I didn't thank you, I knew it
2:16 did this man just google google????????????????
98% of this is what I already knew, because I work on computers. BUT I did learn something new.
Awesome! But I won’t remember these will have to refer back to your post! Thank you very helpful!
These are just a few of the things that I have found while using my Mac. These are the ones I use the most.
On a MAC;
Command C = Copy
Command X = Clear (Highlighted text)
Command V = Paste
Command W = Closes Tab that you are on
Command A = Highlight All
Command R = Return to previous or Back
Command D = Bookmark page
Command Z = Undo
Shift+Option+Arrow keys skips the whole word and and not just the letter (Much faster when correcting mistakes when not using the mouse or for quicker highlighting for copy and paste
On CZcams with a MAC
L = Fast Forward 10 seconds
J = Rewind 10 seconds
Spacebar = Pause or unpause
I think there is also a 5 second fast forward and rewind but I can't remember what they are.
with the CZcams on mac those work on windows As well well for me at least and k is also to pause and unpause. you can go into settings, i think, and change it from 10 seconds to 5 seconds.
Non of these are life hacks, just simple things you can do.
One thing I was doing wrong was to crop a part of a picture on windows. I used to press print screen, paste on paint, crop, and save. The snipping tool does it all.
BRIGHT SIDE u are the best the to much desktop icons thing really helped me out with my computer performance thank you!
Recover permanently deleted files? I don't know how much I know about PC's but if you delete something or perform simple formatting, those files are just marked as free space and will be lost after some other data replace them so It's not permanently deleted. When I was discarding discs and formating them then writing a script to fill them up with nonsense bull*hit and then formating them again was I doing it wrong?
Few Keyboard shortcuts added below...
Moving junk files in Desktop to a Folder in desktop won't save anything,
It is not only the number of files that reduces performance , it's the size of files,
So move them to any Drive instead of C Drive,
If you want it on your Desktop, create a shortcut.
Because Desktop is a limited storage area allocated from C Drive.
The folders that mainly take up your C Drive space are : Desktop & Downloads.
Move junk files to other Drives from these folders , so that your PC will run faster.
Few Shortcuts :
Alt + Tab : Switches between currently opened windows (eg:Chrome,Notepad)
Ctrl + Tab : Switches between Browser Tabs also works with applications let you open multiple tabs at once like Photoshop, Acrobat Reader etc.
Shift + Ctrl + Tab : Same as Ctrl + Tab but in reverse Direction.
Home: (Home key in keyboard) Moves Cursor to the beginning of the line;
End: (End key in keyboard) Moves Cursor to the end of the line;
Shift + Arrow keys : Selects text from current cursor position to the direction of arrow key you pressed.
Shift + Home : Selects text from current cursor position to beginning of line.
Shift + End : Selects text from current cursor position to end of line.
Alt + F4 : exit an Application, Works on almost all Applications except Turbo C++ etc
Great tips, going to watch this again and share it with friends.
I've saved the entire video. 🙌
Is it possible to take a screenshot of a cropped area only and send it to a folder?
i have tried akey widows + c to speak to cortana but it have refuse what if the key is wrong ..... pliz reply to me even ctrl + Q has failed why.
These are not really “hacks”.
lawl
ik a hack!!!!! do *Alt + F then Alt + F4* ITS LEGIT!
GabbyPVPGamer just so you know, you’re talking to a software developer here... so... nice try 😉💙
@@Kaminomenom you can just open a new tab with f1
@@huntermcknight4176 r/woosh
4 days til Christmas who else is SUPER excited?? 💕💞❤😀
Btw Im a small CZcamsr 😀💞😊
I just looked at your comment and it said 1 minute ago lol
Me I guess
Three for me
I see you every Where Your Drving me crazy!!
Once go through my Channel. If yes, we will support each other channels and grow up our viewers
I'd like to see if that charging trick works at home. The ctl+I did work.
Me too
I have a Mac and still learning to navigate between things.....thx for the heads up!
Funfact:- for opening this video 100times to learn the shortcut keys...is a big time consuming process😂
Actually if your computer is from this millennium it shouldn't slow down a lot because you have many desktop icons. Only the time between bootup and when your computer ist really ready might be a little longer.
The thing on the thumbnail makes a new tab!
Wholesome
Did I mention the bright side is basically the best CZcams channel ever
Wow - that Ctrl Key is brilliant. It lets me underline, go bold, go italic, etc. Love it.
congratulations
How I literally jumped out of my seat to hear this
I love all these things that didn't know !
Very informative. 👍
ctrl + shift+ t : reopens last closed tab
I find this useful when my browser closes for some reason or I accidently closed a tab I didn't mean to.
YASSSS I love this one! Or ctrl+shift+w... to close everything you have open at once (only in that window)
Thanks so very much! I didn't know this one and could have been using it for years! I can't wait to use this.
On a search browser, you press ctrl + h to see your history of what you looked up and maybe delete some.
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ittt tell u dat press settings look for history hover over and it shows
Lol I made this comment a long time ago
lol ; - ;
Hi
It is me again
if you get a virus you can take out the hard dive/ssd and replace it with a new one and install a new OS
one I learnt recently, was to access Emojis on my PC keyboard, press the Windows icon + the full stop key and you can see a selection of Emojis
Everyone knows that the comments on this video are more informative than the video itself 😅
Really great ideas, thank you for sharing
some are OK, the open tab one you could just click on the + above the search bar.
however one of my favorite ones i discovered several years ago is the print screen.
press the windows keys hold it then quickly hit the "print scrn" Button. it will take a picture of your computer screen.
Pressing T and Control IS DOING IT MANUALLY
if you have windows 10
press
Windows button + I = goes to settings
What if ur mouse is just broken and moving on its own but not pressing anything...and thank u for teaching me all of that :D
You might need to call an exorcist...
FYI it's *not* pronunced Recoova. It's 'Recuhva', as in Recover but with -uh at the end. You know, because, you're recovering stuff. No one ever recoovers anything. How could you not figure that out??
What most people don't realize is that any problem you have or most any idea you need advice for, most likely a 1000 people have already had the problem and solved it or wrote about the ideas they had. All you have to do is write the question.
I think easy is.. Clicking "+" for new tab instead of cntrl T.
if you're typing you're just going to typea +
Wrong! In the time it takes you to REACH for the mouse, I already have a command performed!
I wish we had a Siri and a printer so then we can always get an A
Thanks bc of you , you help me to increase my screen brightness
Thank you for all these infos.