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The Best Microsoft PowerToys Shortcuts You’ll Want to Use Every Day
Windows isn’t the same without Microsoft PowerToys — a suite of utilities full of handy features, including a Spotlight-like search bar to quickly open apps or run calculations, a shortcut that immediately mutes your microphone and turns off the webcam, and a tool that lets you keep any app’s window pinned to the screen. All…
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You Can Now Pin Important Apps to the Screen in Windows
If you’ve ever wished you could keep Microsoft Word pinned to your screen while jotting down notes from a lecture on Zoom or from a YouTube video, you’re in luck. Thanks to Microsoft’s PowerToys for Windows — specifically, the Always On Top utility — you can now pin your most important windows so they stay…
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How to Use PowerShell to See When Your PC Last Rebooted
There’s nothing like coming back to your Windows PC to find that everything’s been refreshed. None of your apps are open. Your web browser tabs are gone, as is your browser itself. That document you were working on? Hopefully you autosaved, because it looks like your system reset for whatever reason.