10 Tips for Windows Power Users

Do you hate wasting time and crave the power of shortcuts or a better Windows experience? We've got some hot tips you might be unfamiliar with so come check them out and see if you learn something new!

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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
0:40 Shortcuts
1:25 Desktops
2:20 Customization
3:20 PowerToys
4:20 Pins
5:40 Search
6:38 Mouse Buttons
8:05 Phone Integration
8:40 Task Manager
9:45 Privacy
10:40 Backups
11:30 Control Panel
12:30 Reset
13:49 Outro

[laneye]

One more thing about task manager: There's an option called "Always on top" under the "Options" tab, which makes sure that, should a program crash in full screen mode and block you from using your GUI to shut it down, enabling this option will ensure that task manager always opens on top of whatever is blocking your sight :)

[JarrodsTech]

Yeah ok gonna need that USB plugin sound

[genericname]

This is definitely what the Linus Tech Tips channel is made for and I love it.

[RolandWolf]

I really appreciate how this video is obvious sponsored but still generally informative, while still making callback to the sponsored product without disturbing the flow.
It's a fine line to walk, but this did it perfectly.

[anon-san]

Pinned item in windows can be always accessed by shortcut win + number to launch the item pinned at that number

[Yuusou.]

One tip missing: Right-clicking the Windows Icon will get you loads of options, that you would usually search for. It's the easiest access to the cmd, device manager and event viewer.

[Saida___]

One quick tip for task manager is that there is a startup tab that shows all applications that's turns on immediately and you can choose which ones are unnecessary and disable them.

[porkish]

Some incredibly useful shortcuts that I use daily:

CTRL + Shift + Enter - Run program as administrator.
CTRL + W - Close current browser tab.
Win + D - Show the desktop.
Win + Shift + Left/Right Arrow - Move window to left/right monitor.

[crowofcrius]

The shift + winkey + S, for direct snipping tool is the best thing ever.

[nootics]

Middle clicking links into new tabs in the browser is second nature like left clicking to me. Absolutely the most underrated shortcut imo

[yonoseespanol]

For programmers, alt-shift-arrowup or alt-shift-arrowdown can quickly move lines around in VSCode. I also think it works in Word

[Vlntn]

You can open an "enhanced" context menu when pressing shift while right clicking. The most useful additional entry in Explorer I found is "Copy as Path" which writes the absolute filepath to your clipboard sorrounded by quotations.

[wotererio]

Win + arrow keys is my favorite shortcut. Snaps the current program to the side of the screen. Add shift to that and it moves to the next monitor. This one saves me a lot of time!

[adrianmole]

Sergent Major Linus prepares us for the battlefield of family tech support.

[rogervanbommel]

Another tip, many programming IDE's will never highlight a sentence by triple clicking, they are smart and will highlight strings or functions names instead

[Aschentei]

OMG the rainmeter shoutout! I used in the back in the day when I was hooked onto SAO and wanted a cool background setting with SAO hp bars and settings. Great tool, has a bit of a learning curve if you wanna create your own, but well worth the effort

[slayerx]

for pinned items in the taskbar you should try win + number, so like [windows button] + [1] for the first thing on the taskbar and [windows button] + [2] for the 2nd item on the task bar

[pedrolrjunior]

I' m so glad for watching till the end, the transparency tip for CMD got me off guard... 20 Years working with IT and yet learning =D

[WeserBlitzEU]

Ctrl+Shift+M.wheel for transparency when using cmd! Absolutely love that tip, had no idea that was an option. Thanks, @Linus!

[Zutraxi]

Windows + arrow keys for positioning apps is also really useful.
And it is criminal they didn't mention win + 1-9 for opening things on the taskbar
Adding alt to the mix opens the extra context.