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Cloudeight InfoAve Weekly Issue #966 Volume 19 Number 24 April 15, 2022 Dear Friends, Welcome to Cloudeight InfoAve Weekly Issue #966. Thank you very much for subscribing and for being a part of our Cloudeight family. We appreciate your friendship and support very much! Please share our newsletters and our website with your friends and family. If you're not getting our InfoAve Daily newsletter, you're missing out on a lot of good stuff! It's free and it only takes a few seconds to sign up. We'd love to have you with us. Visit this page to sign up for our Cloudeight InfoAve Daily Newsletter.
Andrew wants to format a flash drive Len wants to know what we think of Avast's new "Cleanup Premium". HI. What is your opinion of Avast Cleanup Premium? Thanks, Len. Our answer Hi Len. In our opinion, it's worthless like most Avast products. Its main purpose appears to be to get you to upgrade to Avast's other paid programs. Remember that Avast bought CCleaner and ruined that... maybe this is their attempt to recover from that debacle. Who knows? Take our advice and steer clear of anything Avast touches.
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mail from? Richard has a couple of issues with Windows 11 I just upgraded to Windows 11. Two issues so far. One the touch keypad no longer works. I'm typing this on an old keyboard I attached. Secondly, I see no way to attach a file folder to the taskbar. I put them in the start menu, which was not easy. Any help would be appreciated. Our answer Hi Richard. If you're talking about the Windows touch keyboard... if you right-click on the desktop, choose "Personalization" and look under "Taskbar corner icons" you'll see a switch for Touch Keyboard. You can turn it on from there. I just tried my touch keyboard in Windows 11 on both Windows 11 PCs and it works fine. If that doesn't work then you have a Windows issue that may require you to reinstall Windows11 or run SFC/DISM scans. Or perhaps a future update will fix it. Pinning a folder to the taskbar is not the same as Windows 10. Even in Windows 10, it was not just a matter of dragging and dropping - see this tutorial. It does not work in Windows 11. It's easy to pin a folder or app to the Start menu in Windows 11, though. All you have to do is right-click and choose "Pin to start". So, I'm not sure why you're having trouble pinning apps/folders to the start menu. The main start menu does not show everything that is in the start menu, to see the entire start menu, click on "All apps" near the top right. When you see that you'll see a menu similar to other versions of Windows.
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Five Easy Tips That We Use Every
Day There are hundreds of thousands of Windows tips around, in fact, there are thousands on our InfoAve site. But here are five Windows tips we use almost every day. These tips save time and are super-easy. Today, we’re going to share these five with you. 1: Bring up the Lock Screen in Windows 10. If you press the Windows Key + L, it will bring up the lock screen in Windows 10. If you use a password Windows Key + L will “lock” your Windows PC until you enter your password or PIN. 2: Make any word or phrase a hyperlink. If you want to make a link out of a word or a phrase, like “Visit our InfoAve Website“, it’s super easy to do. Select the word or words you want to make into a hyperlink and press CTRL+K. A dialog will appear. In the dialog type or paste the URL (web site address) and press Enter. If you did that correctly, the word or words you highlighted are now a clickable hyperlink. This works with most word processors and email programs. It also works in Gmail. Try it! 3: Open a new instance of a program with just the click of your mouse. Did you know on most computer mice, you can click the scroll wheel? You can, and we call the “middle mouse button”. If you middle-click on the taskbar icon of an open program, it will open a new instance of that program. Try it. It works with Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Notepad, File Explorer, IrfanView and many other programs. It will work with any program that allows multiple instances to run. 4: Open Task Manager with a keyboard shortcut. Just press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC and Task Manager will open. 5: Hide all open windows in a hurry. If you want to clear all open windows from your screen quickly, press the Windows Key and the M key; to reopen them again, press Windows Key+SHIFT+ M.
Make Sure It’s Broke Before You
Spend Time Fixing It Here are two quick and easy tips that we are sure you'll use... "maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon. And for the rest of your life…” Anyone who uses a computer knows they will have problems from time to time. It’s expected. It’s the nature of the beast. We’re here to remind you that if you start having computer problems, the first thing you should do is make sure there’s something really wrong with your computer before you set sail on a long, time-consuming voyage to fix it. Here are two things you should always try as soon as you notice something’s not right with your computer: 1. Restart your computer. As silly and simple as that sounds, restarting your computer can correct a lot of minor temporary errors and put your computer back on track. It won’t work every time, but it’s the first thing you should try if something isn’t right with your computer. And… if restarting it does not work, we have one more simple thing you should do before you go off searching for help and fixes. 2. Shut down your computer completely and wait a few minutes... Make sure all power is off and all power lights are off. Wait five minutes and then turn your computer back on. You’ll find the second method may be successful if simply restarting your computer doesn’t work. Now, we’re not here to convince you that these two simple tricks will fix all your problems and assuage all your computer woes – they won’t. But many times restarting your computer or shutting your computer down and waiting for a few minutes before restarting can correct many minor, yet annoying errors. And since it does not take much time or effort to try one or both of these tips, there’s no reason not to give them a try. We’ve seen restarting and shutting down the computer and waiting a few minutes before powering it back on, work many times on our own computers and other folks’ PCs as well. And this trick also extends to other electronic devices – tablets, smartphones, streaming devices, etc. Sometimes the best fix is the simplest – just restart the device. It works more often than you think.
Exploring the File Explorer in
Windows 11 File Explorer in Windows 11 takes some time to get used to since it’s a radical change from File Explorer in Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10. The File Explorer in those versions of Windows was essentially the same as the old Windows Explorer included in earlier versions of Windows. The File Explorer in Windows 11 is quite different. Icons now replace words for Cut, Copy, Delete, etc. Here’s a screenshot.
Notice the icons near the bottom – and the yellow-highlighted “Show more options” above them. This presents an uncluttered menu that contains most of the basic functions and tasks – instead of the long menu presented in Windows 10 which can be quite cluttered depending on how many programs you installed that add themselves to the right-click menu. Windows 11 will show a menu much more like Windows 10 when you click on “Show more options”, including the duplication of the Cut, Copy, Rename, Share, Delete, and Rename functions. The File Explorer in Windows 11 looks quite different than in previous versions of Windows, but the “full menu” is still there, it just requires an additional click.
Copy to and Move to In the screenshot above, you can see that “Copy to folder” and “Move to folder” are shown on the secondary menu. They are not there by default. Those of you who like having “Copy to” and “Move to” on the right-click menu will be happy to learn our tutorial on how to add “Copy to” and “Move to” to the right-click menu on Windows 11. And don't forget. You don't have to update to Windows 11 right now. You can safely keep on using Windows 10... We hope this helps those of you who will be updating to Windows 11. If you’re using Windows 10 and don’t want to update to Windows 11 – or your computer does not meet the requirements for Windows 11 – you can continue to use Windows 10 safely until October 14, 2025.
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Easy Context Menu - Quickly and Easily Remove Right-click Context Menu Items Last week, Lynn asked us a question that we have not heard for a while – she wanted to know how to remove some of the programs from her right-click context menu – she was tired of scrolling down a long list just to get to “Rename” and “Delete” which are the two items she uses most. There are a lot of programs that can help with paring down the list of items on the right-click context menu – you can even remove items by editing the registry. But few people consider editing the registry easy or fun – and we found many of the context menu editors complicated. Because of Lynn’s question, we went on a search for an easy-to-use context menu editor. And we found a free program that’s extremely easy to use — so much so that removing items from the right-click context menu is as easy as this: Highlight the item you want to remove and click “Delete”. The program is called “Easy Context Menu”. You can download the zip file from here. Once you download it, unzip the file, and open the folder inside. Then click on EcMenu or EcMenu64 (if you have a 64-bit computer click on EcMenu64 – if you’re not sure click on EcMenu). Once you open the program, press Ctrl-X (or choose “File” > “Context menu cleaner”) to open the Context Menu Cleaner. Highlight the item you want to remove from your right-click menu and click “Delete”.
If you want to delete several items at once, highlight multiple items by holding down the SHIFT key while you click on the items you want to remove. Then, when you have all the items you want to remove from your right-click context menu selected, click on the Delete button on the left side. That’s it. Context Menu Cleaner has many other features as well. You can read more about it and all its features here.
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