They say you can not teach an old dog new tricks. But what about old tricks? As a longtime Windows user, I can tell you that occasionally I get so accustomed to carrying out points a particular way, I neglect that you will discover quicker, less difficult methods.
With that in mind, I've rounded up three right-click tricks you may have forgotten. Or never discovered. Either way, you are going to be glad you understand them. (Note that they are all for Windows 7/8. They might be obtainable in XP and/or Vista as well--I do not recall--but I no longer have these operating systems on which to double-check.)
On today's higher-resolution displays, you could possibly uncover your desktop icons somewhat small for the liking. If so, right-click any empty spot around the desktop, mouse more than View, then click either Medium icons or Significant icons. Presto! Larger icons.
On my 13.3-inch laptop, which features a rather high native resolution (1,920 x 1,080), the Medium setting is surely preferable.
See these icons within your Taskbar? Mine consist of not merely Chrome and Explorer, but in addition Outlook, Word, and Excel.
After you right-click any of them, Windows provides you a list of time-saving shortcuts: recent documents, most-visited web-sites, new appointment (inside the case of Outlook), and so on. In other words, instead of operating an app then going about your business, this lets you decide on your company and launch the app simultaneously.
It's a modest point, but it is undoubtedly 1 of my favored small Windows tricks.
Speaking of icons, once you right-click any icon that is on your desktop, you are going to see two possibilities inside the list that seems: Pin to start and Pin to Taskbar.
They are good for placing your preferred programs iin your preferred launching area. For instance, some old-school customers nonetheless prefer to start off with the Start out Menu. Personally, I am a fan of keeping my most-used apps on the Taskbar. This right-click option tends to make either one particular a snap.
I recognize these are some pretty novice-oriented strategies, but as I noted above, not everybody learns this stuff in the start off, and not everybody remembers it when they do.