The Enhanced Windows 10 Clipboard
Windows 10 (version 1809 & newer)

After 20+ years, the Windows clipboard has finally been updated. All Windows 10 versions starting with version1809 have the enhanced clipboard.  The enhanced clipboard — or as we sometimes call it “the Windows 10 Clipboard Manager”– is not turned on by default, so if you want to use it, you’ll need to turn it on first.

Here’s how to turn on the enhanced clipboard in Windows 10.

1.) Open Settings (Windows key + i ) or Right-click on the start button and click Settings.

2.) Click on System then click “Clipboard”

3.) Turn the switch under “Clipboard history” to “On”.

4.) To view your saved clipboard items, press Windows Key + V. This will bring up the clipboard view pane. Anything you copy is copied and saved to the enhanced clipboard. If you have an item on the enhanced clipboard that you want to use over and over – for example, an email signature, just pin the item to you clipboard by clicking the 3-horizontal-dots at the top, then click on “Pin”.

Once pinned the pinned item will stay on your clipboard until you unpin it. Clearing the clipboard will not remove pinned items. But you can unpin them any time and delete them.

5.)  In the screenshot above you can see that images and text are saved to the clipboard when copied. You can paste from the Clipboard manager by opening a document, email, etc. and clicking in the space where you want to insert the item from the clipboard then using the Windows key + V shortcut to open the Clipboard manager and clicking the item you want to paste.

See?

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It’s a great way to add signatures to emails or paste the often-repeated text into an email, a document, a text file, etc. Once you start using the “enhanced” clipboard — that we call the Windows 10 Clipboard manager — you’ll find many ways to use it and it can save you a lot of time.

We think you’ll find Windows 10’s enhanced clipboard a big improvement over the old Windows clipboard. Is it as good as some of the other freeware clipboard managers? Probably not.  But it sure it beats the standard Windows clipboard.

Tweak Your Windows 10 Start Menu
Windows 10 (all supported versions)

Did you know you can remove all the Windows 10 tiles from your Start menu and tweak it to make it smaller without losing access to any of your programs or apps? It’s easy to do. Here’s how.

First, start by removing all of the tiles from your start menu – don’t worry, all the tiles you remove are still accessible from the list of programs and apps in the Start menu.

Right-click on each tile and choose “Unpin from Start”. This will remove the tile but won’t remove the program or app from the Start menu. If you have a lot of tiles, this will take some time, but if you want a sleeker Start menu, it will be worth it!

With all the tiles removed, you can now resize your Start menu. Hover the mouse cursor over the right edge until you see the mouse pointer turn into a double arrow. Then drag the right edge as far to the left as you can.

You can make your Start menu shorter too. Hover the mouse cursor over the top edge of the Start menu and drag the top edge down until you have the menu the height you want it.

As you can see below, it looks a lot more like the old Windows 7 start menu, with just a scrollable list of apps and programs.

Everything is in alphabetical order. And if you want to go from A to say W, you can do that without scrolling, just click on a letter and a box will appear like this:

Just click the first letter of the program or app you want to open. If you want to open VLC Media Player, click on the V and your Start menu will jump right the V section.

Now you know how you can tweak your Windows 10 Start menu to make it just the way you want it!



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A Website That Empowers Consumers

They say that necessity is the mother of invention, I say ‘they” are right. After spending 3 hours trying to straighten out an order with my wireless carrier yesterday, I was ready to blow a fuse. I spent 3 hours listening to crazy, nondescript music while on hold waiting for yet another customer service representative told me he or she would take care of it and call me back. Ya think they called me back? At least they could have played Christmas carols while I waited instead of cabbage music. But ya think Christmas carols would be politically correct?

It all began when I took advantage of a mail promotion about which it seems, the wireless company failed to notify its customer service representatives. Anyway, I bought into the promo – naive dolt that I am. I ordered two of the phones that were advertised. One was free the other was not – basically a buy one get one free deal. However, when my order arrived from UPS, I had been “upgraded” to phones that cost $80 more and neither was free.

The final straw was when one of the customer service reps asked me to send her photos of the promotional flyer for the free phone. Really? Like I’m making all this up? Oh well. I’ll be a sport. I dutifully scanned both sides of the flyer. saved them as JPEGs and sent them via email to the representative. She promised to call me back when she got the pictures and fix things up for me. She never called back and things never got fixed up.

That was it. I had had it. The pressure valves in my head were about to explode. But every dark road has a light on it somewhere. All that frustration and exasperation led me to Elliot Advocacy.

It’s a gold mine for frustrated consumers who are sick and tired of being on the treadmill that is trying to talk to a real human being and to talk to a human being who has the brains and the authority to fix problems.

Above: We grayed out the email addresses, but you’ll find them posted at Elliott Advocacy.

In my state of aggravated exasperation, I found corporate executives’ contact information listed on Elliott advocacy. I promptly wrote an email to 3 different vice presidents explaining the merry-go-round I was on. And within 30 minutes of sending those emails, my phone rang. It was from a lady who worked for one of the vice presidents. In less than 30 minutes she had all my problems solved, My order was corrected, my phones upgraded for free, and I received a credit on my bill for all the trouble I had. And this happened only because I finally got the eyes and ears of someone who could help.  Now I am a happy customer again.

Let’s let Elliott Advocacy say a few words…

“Elliott Advocacy is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit consumer advocacy organization that empowers consumers to solve their problems and helps those who can’t. 

"We do it through direct consumer advocacy, journalism on an ad-free website and maintaining the largest database of executive contact information on the Internet for consumers. 

"…If you’re having trouble with a business — any business — and you’ve reached a dead end, we’ll try to help. Send our consumer advocacy team a request and we’ll investigate. Please read our frequently asked questions before getting in touch…. 

"Elliott Advocacy is a nonprofit organization that offers free advice and advocacy for consumers. If you need help with any problem, please contact us through this form. You can also post your question on our public help forum. We’re here to help..."

If you are having a big problem with a product or service and you find yourself trapped in an endless rat-maze of misdirection while trying to find a real person who can help you, Elliott Advocacy publishes the email addresses of corporate executives. And if you have a serious problem with an order, a service or a product, and you contact the right person, there’s a good chance you’ll get it resolved… and pronto. The hard part is finding the right person.

The maze that is customer service for most large companies, was put in place for a reason. To take care of minor complaints, simple problems and the ever-present folks out there trying to get something.

But if you have serious problems and can’t seem to find anyone to help you, visit Elliott Advocacy and look up the email addresses of corporate executives. You might be surprised how fast your problems are resolved.

Besides contact information for corporate executives for most major companies, Elliott Advocacy can help you through its free consumer advocacy service.

When you’ve run the exhaustive treadmill of endless waiting on the phone, and pressing one for this, and two for that, and three for something else, and all you want to do is reach a living, breathing person who has the power to help, you’ll find a lot of good information and some very powerful corporate contact information on the Elliott Advocacy website.

Take a trip to Elliot Advocacy right now! 

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Finding the Spirit of Christmas

“So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.” 1 Corinthians Chapter 13

Winter has arrived ahead of schedule this year. Tonight, I look out my window and see softly falling flakes of snow drifting in the dim light of the old lamp post in my front yard. How many times I’ve looked out upon this same winterscape I cannot count. I wonder how many times I’ve seen this same scene without really seeing it. How many beautiful things have passed from my view because I’ve been too busy? How many days in my life have come and gone in my life when I never really saw anything at all?

But tonight I’m feeling wistful and pensive. Not sad. Just thoughtful. Life is flowing by me faster than I ever imagined. I suppose none of us at age twenty can imagine the true value of time. Seasons come and go so quickly now. And now here it is Christmastime again. It felt strange this night to think that Christmas is less than two weeks away,

When I was a child a whole week to wait for Christmas to arrive seemed a painfully long time. Two weeks seems like an eternity. Counting down the days and hours made it seem even longer. But Christmas did eventually come – it came and went. It has come and gone so many times. And here I am, many years older, and hopefully, many years wiser, looking back over all those Christmases past. Less than two weeks until Christmas? But unlike a child, the days until Christmas will come and go in the blink of an eye.

As I look back at Christmases past, the ones I remember most are the ones where I had the least. Perhaps the lavish gifts of the more prosperous years got in the way of the greatest gift of all. Maybe I buried the greatest gift under mountains of other less important gifts. You know the ones...

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