Win 11 Hack to Restart

If you have Windows 11 installed and want to restart your computer using the keyboard just do a FN+ALT+F4 and this should give the command to Windows to restart the computer.

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Saving Voicemails

If you have an iPhone or Android device there will be times that you wish you can save you voicemails for memories or just for legal purposes.

This is how you do it.

iPhone 

    * Click the Phone icon and then go to Voicemail at the bottom right.

    * Tap the voicemail you want to save and click the box with the arrow on it and it should open a menu          to either share the voicemail or save it elsewhere like Dropbox or Google Drive.

Android

    * Open the voicemail application and go to the voicemail selection in your phone application.

    * Tap and hold the message you want to save.

    * In the menu that appears, look for options like Save, Export, or Archive.

    * Select where you like the message to be saved on your phone and to OK and Save. 

Real Estate Agent Info

The next time before you have a realtor sell your house, do your homework and see how well and how many houses the broker has sold. This is going to give you an idea the time of realtor you are going to rely on to buy or sell your home.

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Go to google.com and type realtors name and at the end put Zillow this will give you the realtor feedback on how many homes they sold and in some cases will tell you the amount of money they made from selling them.

                       ex. Jane Smith Zillow

There are other sites you can use but this should give you a good idea on the persons sales techniques. 

Troubleshoot Window Freezes

Here are some good tips to troubleshoot Window freezes. This always requires lots of patience, you need to wait until things free up so that you can save your file and continue.

Then try Cntrl + Alt + Del and wait for the screen to blank before selecting task manager. In task manager click more details, if visible and any non-responsive program should be highlighted and you can attempt to close it or try to recover it. This will take you to a detail tab, where processes are listed with more information on their status. 

Right-click the non-responding thread and choose to Analyze the wait chain. This waits to use resources being used elsewhere which can result in the program freezing. 

And Sometimes the Task Manager appears to have no effect. In these circumstances, you may be forced to reboot. 

Windows 10 Key Cmds

Looking for Windows 10 key commands, then look at the following commands below.

Commands
Window + I = to switch programs on the taskbar
Windows + Shift + 1 = open new browser
Windows + Up = to maximize
Windows + Down = to restore to previous style
Winodows + Shift + Left = move the current program to the left hand display
Ctrl+Shift+T = opens recent closed tab browser
Windows + I = bring up Settings programs
Windows + Ctrl + F4 = close current desktop

Microsoft Local Accounts

Setting up a local on Windows 10 is getting difficult. Microsoft keeps hiding the option making it difficult for users to create a private local account on their computer.
Your best bet is to select join a domain and remove it when the installation is complete.

Software Inventory

Want to get an inventory of all your software on your computer. Just use the PowerShell script below to help you get that information for the reinstallation of your computer.

Powershell

Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\*| select-Object DisplayName, DisplayVersion, Publisher, InstallDate |Format-Table -AutoSize > c:\software.txt

Safe Mode Help

New Windows 10 user's are probably confused where Safe Mode has gone and if you need to troubleshoot your computer in Safe Mode, it's a good idea to find out where it's hiding in Windows 10.

Your best bet is to type Safe in the start menu and open the recovery option page in Windows setting panel. In their you'll find two section which are Reset your PC and Advance Startup. You want to choose Advance Startup and restart now. Once the computer restarts just press 4 to start Safe Mode and Windows will boot you into Safe Mode.

To exit safe mode is very simple, just restart the computer and you automatically will be signed out of Safe Mode and Windows will load normally.

Run Dialog Tips

Use the Run command prompt to get to resources quicker and faster. Most commands shortcuts will save you time in the long run. It just takes practice on remembering them.

Shortcuts
taskmgr
shell:sendto
devmgmt.msc
%ProgramData%
%Path%
control system.cpl
control desk.cpl
control admintools
control desktop
ms-settings:usb
ms-settings:windowsupdate
ms-settings:lockscreen
ms-settings:display
%OneDrive%

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   Control panel tool             Command
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   Accessibility Options          control access.cpl
   Add New Hardware               control sysdm.cpl add new hardware
   Add/Remove Programs            control appwiz.cpl
   Date/Time Properties           control timedate.cpl
   Display Properties             control desk.cpl
   FindFast                       control findfast.cpl
   Fonts Folder                   control fonts
   Internet Properties            control inetcpl.cpl
   Joystick Properties            control joy.cpl
   Keyboard Properties            control main.cpl keyboard
   Microsoft Exchange             control mlcfg32.cpl
      (or Windows Messaging)
   Microsoft Mail Post Office     control wgpocpl.cpl
   Modem Properties               control modem.cpl
   Mouse Properties               control main.cpl
   Multimedia Properties          control mmsys.cpl
   Network Properties             control netcpl.cpl
                                  NOTE: In Windows NT 4.0, Network
                                  properties is Ncpa.cpl, not Netcpl.cpl
   Password Properties            control password.cpl
   PC Card                        control main.cpl pc card (PCMCIA)
   Power Management (Windows 95)  control main.cpl power
   Power Management (Windows 98)  control powercfg.cpl
   Printers Folder                control printers
   Regional Settings              control intl.cpl
   Scanners and Cameras           control sticpl.cpl
   Sound Properties               control mmsys.cpl sounds
   System Properties              control sysdm.cpl

Rename a PC

Here is some great information from the TechRepublic on how to change a computer name.

Rename a computer

When you set up Windows 10 on a new PC as a clean install, Windows automatically creates a random computer name for you using the word DESKTOP, followed by a hyphen and seven random letters and numbers.

If you never use a local network, you can safely ignore that name. But if you share files with other computers, it helps to use descriptive names that make it clear which device you're connecting to.

To change the computer name in Windows 10, Click on Windows Icon go to Settings > System > About. The current computer name is near the top of that page, with a large rename this PC button below it. Click that button and enter a descriptive name using any combination of letters, numbers, and hyphens. (no special characters or spaces allowed.) The maximum length is 15 characters.Then click next to finish the renaming process and then restart your PC.

In Windows 7, the process is similar, but it uses the Computer Name tab on the System Properties dialog box instead. For a shortcut, click Start and then type systempropertiescomputername (with no spaces) in the search box. Click the search result, click Change to enter a new name, and then restart.

Manage Backups via Win 10

Backup your files to a flash drive automatically. It's secure and a life saver should your hard drive or computer ever go down.
Goto Start -> right click and choose Control Panel. In Control Panel choose File History and click Advance Settings. Here you change the frequency of backups, for most users an external drive will work great or a flash drive.
In here you might want to do a cleanup every few months, or so and even change the frequency of backup times. 

Google Doc Scam

Looks like a new phishing scam is going around with google docs and it's telling users to sign in and view the documents that were recently sent.
Now if you get a document from an unknown users, I would immediately delete it. If it comes from an known email address. I wouldn't download it so fast until you confirm with the user that they had sent you a google doc.

Open PC Control Panel

Here are a few tips to open the computer control panel without so many clicks. It's for user's who want a better way to open the control panel. Follow the method that works best for you.

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Keyboard Shortcuts

Here are some keyboard shortcuts everyone should know. It's the most common codes for almost anything and everything you do on your computer. Learn them, one day you will know why.

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Recovery Drive

Looking for recovery drive for your computer, just type in Cortana search the word "recovery" and choose create a recovery drive to restore your computer should you have a problem later on with a software or update.
This creates a full install recovery disk and will require an 8 gig flash drive. If you go down uncheck the backup system files to the recovery box and do basic repairs. 

Win 10 Guest Account

Using Windows 10 but want others to use your computer as a Guest. No problem but your going to have to enable the Guest account that Microsoft automatically disables on Windows 10.  First goto the command prompt (admin) then type the following:

$ net user Visitor /add /active:yes
$ net user Visitor *

 Press Enter twice when prompted to add a password so that it stays blank and then type

$ net localgroup users Visitor /delete
$ net localgroup guests Visitor /add

the first cmd removes the visitor account and the second line add guest to the group

Thanks to the help of PC Magazine for the info

Hard Drive status Instantly

Is your hard drive failing and want to know instantly if the device needs to be replaced before you loose valuable information. No problem with a few clicks of the command prompt.

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in the command line do the following type

WMIC DISKDRIVE GET MODEL,STATUS

Command Line Tricks

Command Line is a very powerful program with lots of tricks that not only controls what you see on your computer but can make life easier if you remember these key tricks.

System File Check - great trick to fix hard drive booting problems and repair your Windows OS when things just don't see to work right.

type "sfc /scannow
now if you get an error that it was protected then do this below
             type "findstr /c:"{SR}"%windir%\Logs\CBS\CBS.log>"%userprofile%\Desktop|sfcdetails.txt"

Now identify the corrupt file and source and goto another computer running the same version of Windows and issue the following command for each corrupt file, replacing with the files path ex: c:\Windows\System32\ and with it's filename (jscript.dll)
                       
                          takedown /f \
                            icarrs\/
                         GRANT ADMINISTRATOR:F

and copy the file you took from another computer into the same folder
                         copy\
                        \

now run SFC again and the corrupt file that you replace should be gone

Robocopy - difficult setup, but once it's done it makes your life easy copying multiple files and folders on the go

Type in dir in command prompt and to show hidden folders type the following
                        dir /A:H = shows attributes and hidden files 
what to know what other commands you can use type dir/? or help dir on the command line and it will show you other command options. 

Tree = command shows subfolders
cd = change to different director or move files to a new folder, cd is a way of moving to a folder in another folder. 
md = make directory or create a new folder
rmdir = delete a directory 
del or del *.* = delete file and when you add *.* it means delete all files in that folder
verify on and off = confirm files that you copied
/no copy = removes all file information
/b = allows administrators to copy files that they usually would be denied access too
format = to format a drive
format /q = quickly format the drive
format options ad /FS, V: = specify file system Fat, Fat32, exFat, NTFS volume to be formatted
fsutil = list of commands that are supported
convert from FAT32 to NTFS type convert /fs:ntfs
ckdsk = check window at boot time
ipconfig /renew6 = resets IPv6 addresses
ipconfig /flushdns = clear domain names over the internet
ipconfig /renew = renew ip address of computer
ipconfig/release = release ip address of computer
tracert = if internet is sluggish instead of ping type tracert to route you and your target for connection times
netstat = run in admin to find out more about a program process ex; netstat -b
driverquery = includes info on drivers on your pc
-v = more information on the file system ex: drivequery -v>drivers.txt
powercfg = information on power options ex: powercfg /a
powercfg /h = disable or enable hibernation in power mode
powercfg /enegery = gives energy report of efficiency and battery
powercfg /batteryreport = gives you a battery health report
diskpart = very dangerous and make sure to make an image backup, it will erase your hard drive
diskpart cmds = type help but becareful anything you do here may destroy all of your hard drive data
echo off command = prevents command from batch file from showing up in command line
cls = clears screen

Win 10 Storage Fix

Having Windows 10 storage problems after a recent upgrade. This should do the trick and hopefully will make your storage problem go away.

Just click on the Windows icon and choose settings and from left hand menu pick click the System icon, then Notifications and actions and then show me tips about Windows in which you will turn off. You can also turn other notifications off as well to save more space.

Good Luck. 

Save items on Facebook

Here's a great tip to save items later on Facebook. Does not require a lot of energy, just the know how to so that you can see it later or save it later.
The great thing about this tip is that you can create an endless list with no due date for your personal viewing later on.

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