Windows 10: Tips for Non-Techies

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  • grumpycrab
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    debitcardmayhem wrote: »
    I hope you use 3 sticks and rotate them :cool:
    Blimey - perhaps the simplest approach - works if your're organised; alternative data backups... Windows 10 File History, Synctoy or Syncback (prepare for the flames...)
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  • debitcardmayhem
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    grumpycrab wrote: »
    Blimey - perhaps the simplest approach - works if your're organised; alternative data backups... Windows 10 File History, Synctoy or Syncback (prepare for the flames...)
    Oh and Rsync too and dropbox, onedrive etc etc
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  • Teapot55
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    edited 30 August 2017 at 4:30PM
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    [STRIKE]How to 'log out' quickly . . .[/STRIKE]

    How to 'lock' your computer quickly . . .

    Hold down the 'Windows' key on your keyboard and while it is down tap once on the 'L' key.

    would've . . . could've . . . should've . . .

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  • Jivesinger
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    Teapot55 wrote: »
    How to 'log out' quickly . . .

    Hold down the 'Windows' key on your keyboard and while it is down tap once on the 'L' key.
    That doesn't log you out though. Sometimes you need to sign out of Windows and this doesn't do it - any files and documents you have open are still open and not saved.

    All it does is Lock the computer so people (and, for instance, keyboard-walking cats) can't access things you have open. Except for some apps like Spotify which can leave functioning audio controls on the Lock screen in the latest Windows/Spotify version.
  • Teapot55
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    Obviously past my bedtime when I posted that yesterday Jivesinger, so thanks, and I will edit my post to make sense.

    I meant 'lock'. I do it because it is kinder to other people if they want to use the same computer. In the workplace it keeps what you are working on safe from being accidentally altered by someone leaning on the keyboard!

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  • AndyPix
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    ^^ Technically, this isnt a windows 10 tip .. but rather a windows tip :)
  • Teapot55
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    AndyPix wrote: »
    ^^ Technically, this isnt a windows 10 tip .. but rather a windows tip :)

    Definitely. Thank you AndyPix. :D

    I will probably be making other posts in a similar vein. My point will be my relief that the old tricks I used to use on Windows 8 are still working on Windows 10. I will try to remember to say so when I post.

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  • GunJack
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    Teapot55 wrote: »
    old , Windows 8

    :rotfl: :rotfl: W8 is definitely NOT old :D

    a bag of nails, yes, but old? - nah ;)
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  • forgotmyname
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    Top Tips:

    1. Power Computer on and download Firefox or Chrome. Stop using EDGE.

    2. Use your new browser to download and install Classic shell.

    3. Download and install 7+ Taskbar Tweaker.

    4. Probably too late but when first running windows 10 create a local account not a MS account.

    Spend hours making win 10 look and feel like windows 7 :)
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  • RumRat
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    forgotmyname wrote: »
    Top Tips:

    1. Power Computer on and download Firefox or Chrome. Stop using EDGE.

    2. Use your new browser to download and install Classic shell.

    3. Download and install 7+ Taskbar Tweaker.

    4. Probably too late but when first running windows 10 create a local account not a MS account.

    Spend hours making win 10 look and feel like windows 7 :)

    These are not W10 tips....They are opinions...:)
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