Windows has always had a core stack of useful shortcuts for copy, paste and save. But there are more than just these basic shortcuts you can use to do more with Windows?
If you have a slow internet connection, or don’t want to connect to a public guest WIFI because of security concerns, you can use your mobile as a wireless hotspot.
Running out of space on your PC used to be a chore. Finding where all those hidden files were and deleting them, particularly if they related to Windows Updates, wasn’t always easy. Now that Solid State disks are commonly installed and tend to be smaller (because they are more expensive) they may fill up quickly especially if you store a lot of images, videos and (less of a problem these days with streaming) music.
You can sync your OneDrive or SharePoint libraries to your PC, which can be really useful for accessing items in the familiar way using Explorer. It’s also great if you ever work offline and need your files available; you can sync them in advance, work offline, then they’ll sync back when you reconnect. But, over time, these files start to take up valuable space on your PC.
By creating an account in Firefox and Chrome browsers, you will be able to sync your browsing history, favorites and saved site logins across multiple PCs. This is also a great way of transferring your browser data to a new PC. Setting up an account is very easy.
We all forget a password from time to time. If you have forgotten your Office 365 password and cannot sign in, with Self Service Password reset enabled on your Office 365 account (if you don’t have this, ask your IT Admin to set this up for you) you can reset your own password from the Office 365 Portal login screen.
Emails going to junk? You can mark people as a Safe Sender & they will always come into your Inbox!
You can change how many emails appear in your Outlook inbox by setting how far back in time you want emails to sync.
Default applications are applications that are automatically selected to be used when you try open a specific file type. In this guide we will be setting the default zip file application to WinRAR, but the same steps can be used for other file types and applications.
Ever wondered how to change the background image on your Windows device? With this helpful guide, you can change it to whatever image/colour you want!
If you have multiple email accounts with the same provider, such as Office365 or Google, or others such as Twitter, you might have trouble switching between the two.
If you don’t have automated signatures on your email account, you may need to add it manually to each device you send email from. If
If you need to share a document with an external third party, you should do so securely. Sometimes password protecting and emailing the document is
If you have access to multiple other mailboxes, you may find that Outlook starts to run slowly, that your hard disk starts to fill up, or worse – the emails in those mailboxes don’t sync properly.
By default everyone in your organisation can see some basic details in your calendar. However this is limited to showing whether you are free or busy at a particular time.
If you ever wanted to put a signature in Outlook webmail, here’s how
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Perhaps you need to collaborate on documents, provide files for the external colleague to download, or even provide a location for them to upload files to your tenancy. If you need to share a folder with people outside of your organisation, you can do this securely with SharePoint.
If you have access to multiple mailboxes, and you’re used to using Outlook where you can see them all together, it’s not immediately obvious how to see them all when using Outlook on the web. But, it’s easy!
Surfing the web in private is a minefield.
Everywhere you go, something is watching you, tracking your search results and the pages you visit.
And more often than not the goal is to target you with advertising based on the things that you’re probably interested in (probable because hey, that’s what you’ve been looking at isn’t it?)