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Cloudeight InfoAve Weekly Issue #981 Volume 19 Number 39 July 29, 2022 Dear Friends, Welcome to Cloudeight InfoAve Weekly Issue #981. 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
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How to Find Out What You’ve Been Doing on Your
PC Windows keeps track of everything you do on your computer. Did you know that every file or folder you access in Windows is tracked and added to a list? If someone (or you) wants to know what files and folders you’ve opened recently, it is quite easy to do. Just open a Run box by holding down the Windows Key and tapping the “R” key.
Type RECENT in the Run box and press Enter or click “OK”. A list of files you’ve accessed recently will appear. I did this tutorial on my spare laptop, the one I rarely use. So, my list is sparse, yours may be much longer. My “Recent” list on my spare laptop, goes back about three weeks. It would go back further, but I was writing a tutorial on how to run CLEANMGR to clean up junk files and old restore points and cleaned up my PC. Just for your information: The red icons (IrfanView image viewer) you see in the screenshot below are pictures. If you want to see what pictures I’ve been looking at, all you need to do is double-click to open them. Remember. Anyone with access to your computer can do this. This list contains every file and folder you’ve opened since the last time you cleaned up your PC. If you run Windows Disk Cleanup or another cleanup program regularly, you will not have much on this list. Windows 10 users will also notice that a list of recently accessed files and folders appears in File Explorer “Quick Access”. Here’s how to clear the list of recently access files and folders Type FOLDER OPTIONS in the taskbar search and press Enter. File Explorer options will open. The General tab should open by default. Near the bottom, you’ll see “Clear File Explorer history” and right next to it, a button labeled “Clear”. You guessed it! Click the “Clear” button to clear recent history and remove the traces of your activity on your PC. OK! Now you know how to see what files and folders you have recently accessed on your computer, and how to clear the list.
Storage Sense – Clean Up Windows 10 and Windows 11 There are dozens of programs that you can download to clean up your Windows computer. Windows even comes with Disk Cleanup which was supposed to be deprecated by Microsoft some time ago but wasn’t – at least not yet. Of course, then there are Privazer, BleachBit, and CleanMgr+ as well as the popular (but not popular with us), CCleaner. Somewhere, along the way, Windows Storage Sense has been forgotten. So, we’re going to revisit Storage Sense for Windows 10 today. We’re also going to introduce you to the streamlined Storage Sense in Windows 11. Windows 10 Storage Sense Right-click the Start button and choose Settings. In Settings choose System > Storage. If you have not done so already, turn on Storage Sense by sliding the switch to the “On” position. If you want to run a quick cleanup, click “Configure Storage Sense or run it now”. Under “Temporary Files” make sure you check the selection box next to “Delete temporary files my apps aren’t using”. And then check to make sure you have “Never” selected under “Delete files in my downloads folder if they haven’t been open for more than:”. You can easily clean up your Downloads folder manually. Next, under “Free up space now”, click the “Clean now” button. That’s all there to using Storage Sense to do a basic cleanup. If you’re an advanced user and like to tinker with settings, you can fine-tune Storage Sense and customize it to your liking. Windows 11 Storage Sense Click the Start button and choose Settings from the Start menu. Then click on System > Storage. Yep! Just like Windows 10. When Storage opens, click on “Storage Sense”… In the System > Storage > Storage Sense section, turn the switch to the “On” position under “Automatic user content cleanup”. Next, scroll down and click “Run Storage Sense now”, to run Storage Sense with its default settings. Storage Sense in Windows 11 allows users to fine-tune and customize Storage Sense cleanup settings. To access these settings, go back to System > Storage > Storage Sense and click on “Cleanup recommendations”… And Windows let you know which files are safe to clean. Since the Windows 11 computer, I’m using is less than two weeks old, nothing is showing up here yet. Now you know another way to clean up your Windows 10 or Windows 11 PC.
Special Characters Made Easy with
the Windows Emoji Pad Back in the day, the only way to use symbols was to use the Windows Character Map. Want to check it out? Just type Charmap in the taskbar search and press Enter — it’s still there even in Windows 11.
But as always nothing is as certain as change and this change (we think) is for the better. Wait! Before we delve into this any deeper, if you’re not sure what special characters are we’ll show you:
You get the idea, right? All of those symbols, and a whole lot more, are all at your fingertips in the Windows Emoji pad. How to open the Windows Emoji pad You can open the Emoji pad by holding down the Windows key plus the . (period key) or the Windows key and the ; (semi-colon) key. Your choice. Once the Emoji pad opens, click the Symbols icon at the top.
You can choose symbols from seven different categories. General punctuation symbols You can change categories by using the slider located at the right edge of the Emoji pad.
The category you are in is shown by a small underline… see?
How to use the symbols in an email or a document To use any of the symbols in an email, document, text, or PDF file, place your cursor at the location in your email or document where you want to add the special character and open the Emoji pad (Windows key + the period or semi-colon key). Then find the character you want to use, then click it. That’s all there is to it. I could go and on into infinity ∞ but I’m not going to. Señor Winches is waiting in his taxi. He will be taking me to the dock where I’ll board a ship to Cålístō. Cålístō is a beautiful place with a lot of sunshine and the weather pleasant with an average high of 72° F or 22.2° C. And the best part is there’s nothing to do but watch the ladies sunning on the beach and drink Piña Coladas and Mai Tais until my ship comes in.
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Thousands of Free Fonts for the Font Lover in You
We both love free fonts – because we’re broke and old and goofy. But you don’t have to be broke, old, or goofy to like free fonts. No ma’am. No sir. A lot of people love free fonts! But alas, crooks know what people love so you gotta be careful with some of the free font sites out there. Some of them are traps loaded with downloads bundled with bad things along with the fonts. Yep, many font sites like to play “let’s fool the suckers into downloading malware with the fonts”. But you don’t want that and we don’t want that. All of us free font lovers just want free fonts and NO GAMES. On today’s Cloudeight site pick, you’ll find almost 3500 pages of free fonts. The site is called “1001 Fonts”. Did we count them to make sure there are 1001 fonts? Nope, we didn’t. But we can multiply… and we mean that in the mathematical sense only. As of today, there are 3482 pages of fonts. At 10 fonts per page that’s a lot more than 1001. That’s like over 34,000 fonts. What could you possibly do with all those fonts?
The developers apparently can make fonts and find fonts but they don’t say much at all, so we can’t invite them here to give you a few words about this site because they have nothing to say. Oh well. The fonts from 1001 Free Fonts are free for personal use only. If you’re a mogul and you plan to use fonts for TV or print advertising or for advertising pork chops in the front window of your grocery store – buy a commercial license. If you just want to use them to make cute graphics or whatever, they’re free. Capiche?
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Wishing You a Very Happy Birthday, Darcy!
Some of you know her as EB, some of you know her as Darcy, and most of you know she’s a very special lady. She is the one who makes sure that everyone every order gets filled, and everyone with a computer problem who has a Cloudeight Direct service key gets scheduled. And she makes sure that we answer every single email we receive. Without her, I doubt Cloudeight would be around anymore. She’s a fighter and she really cares. She’s the one who takes the ideas I come up with and makes them work. My head’s always in the clouds — which is why we are called Cloudeight…not really. She makes this our business and our site work. And she comes up with some great ideas too – like Cloudeight Direct, just to mention one. Her birthday is July 30th. What I wish the most for her birthday is good health and that all her dreams come true.
You don’t know this, but she used to own a bar, and that’s where I met
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