Uncover Windows 10 Most Useful Features Today

 a big difference for me onceI found out about them. (soft music) Before we get started a brief thanks to Skillshare forsponsoring today's video. Skillshare is the learning platform with lots of great classesand I'm going to chat more about them towards the end. I have a link for you toget free premium access to Skillshare for two months. You're going to find it in the description of the video, so don't miss out on that. Now let's get started withmy tips for Windows 10. Number one, enjoy next levelpasting with clipboard history. Everyone knows about copyingand pasting with the shortcuts, control C and control V, right, but did you know that youaren't limited to pasting just the last thing youcopied to the clipboard? With clipboard history youcan save multiple copied items and use them anytime you want. So for example, I'm doing some research and I copied different parts of this text with Control C. Then I go back to my document, but instead of controlV which would only paste the last copied item,I press the Windows key and V to access the clipboard history. There I can see all the entriesI copied and I can select which one I want to paste. Isn't that great? No more flipping back andforth between applications to copy and paste each bit separately and no more accidentallylosing some copied text because you forgot to pasteand copy something new over it. You can copy text HTML and bitmaps up to four megabytes per item. You may have to activate clipboard history in the settings first. To do that, just press the windows key and type in clipboard settings. Here, make sure clipboardhistory is turned on. The other setting here, syncacross devices allows you to share copied text acrossany of your windows devices as long as you're signed into the same Microsoft account. So turn that one on if you'reworking on different devices. One more great feature, let's say you have someitems on your clipboard that you use frequentlyand you'd like to be able to reuse these even afterrebooting your computer. No problem for clipboardhistory, you can pin these items. Just click the ellipsis and select pin. They'll still be therethe next time you log in. The unpinned items onyour clipboard history are cleared every timeyou restart your PC. Only those items youpinned are going to remain on the clipboard. Number two, stay safe with Sandbox. Sandbox is another exciting new feature that was introducedwith an update in 2019. It offers a separate testingenvironment to try out software or download apps from websites that you're not so sure about. Sandbox is part of thePro and Enterprise edition of Windows 10 so unfortunatelyit's not available in Windows 10 Home. Sandbox is like a virtual PC that's built right intoyour Operating System. This way you can runprograms or access websites in a safe zone withoutaffecting your system. For example, let's sayyou received a utility that you're not sure if it's malware. With Sandbox, so you can tryit without risk of getting a virus or malware on yourcomputer because the wires will be contained in that Sandbox. Sandbox isn't turned on by default, so you have to activate it first. To do that, type in windowsfeatures in the search. Scroll down and check thebox next to Window Sandbox. Click okay and it'sgoing to get activated. To start Sandbox, open the Start menu and type in Sandbox in the search. Then all you have to do is copy and paste the file that you want to run in Sandbox. You can safely open it andcheck if everything is okay or use edge to checkout some dodgy website you're not sure aboutto make sure it's safe. When you're done just closeSandbox and all the content there is going to be wiped out. So even if the Sandboxis compromised next time you start it up again, it'sgoing to give you a brand new box to play with,but be aware that Sandbox only gives you an OperatingSystem with a browser, none of the other third party applications are going to be available in Sandbox. So you can't copy an officeattachments that you received into the Sandbox and open it there because you won't haveOffice in the Sandbox. You can install apps, butyou're going to have to install them again next time youopen up a new Sandbox. So keep that in mind. Number three, split yourworld with virtual desktop. So let's say you're working on a project and you have several appsopen, then an appointment pops up reminding you thatyou need to join a video conference to present a status update. When you share your screen,you don't want everyone to see all the otherfiles you're working on. And you don't want toclose them either because it's going to take sometime to get it all set up again, once you're donewith your phone call. The solution is to switch to another clean temporary workspace, which is also called a Virtual Desktop. Click on Task View undertask bar and then on the Plus New Desktop or use theshortcut key Windows Control D. This way you get an empty workspace. You can create severalof these virtual desktops and to switch betweenthem, use a shortcut key Windows Control and the arrow keys. Another practical application for this is to have a desktop forprivate or fun activities like games or research for vacation and another one forprofessional applications. This way, one doesn'tinterfere with the other and in case the bossdrops play unexpectedly while you're in yourprivate world at work, you can easily switch, butyou didn't hear that from me. When you don't need avirtual desktop anymore, you can close it by clickingon the task view again and closing it here. Alternatively, use the shortcutkey Windows Control and F4. Number four, hide desktopicons with one click. This is a quick one. It's a feature I use a lot. It's to hide icons on my desktop. This is specially useful forme when I do a screencast or give a presentation. To hide all your icons, right click under desktop and select view. You'll see Show Desktop Icons. It's owned by default,but if you uncheck it, your icons under Desktop disappear. When you're ready to bring them back just select it again toput back the check mark. Number five, get in thezone with Focus Assist. Okay, I admit it, I'm easily distracted. So when I work on somethingand and a notification pops up, I'll happily take a look. Next thing I know I'm movingon to answering an email, checking my website oranswering some YouTube comment. And then an hour later I'm wondering where the time all went. So if I really must get something done, I use Focus Assist and I'll do a sprint. To turn it on, just goto the Action Center and select Focus Assist. If you click on it, you havea choice of priority only, which will mute everythingexcept priority notifications. You can define what these are if you right click and go to Settings. You can customize your own priority list by adding certain people or apps. In the settings for Focus Assist, you can also up some automatic rules to turn on Focus Assist automatically. For instance, you may wantto turn it on automatically while you're duplicating your display. This way, new notificationsare going to pop up while you're giving a presentationor sharing your screen. The other option in Focus Assist is the one I usually use is alarms only. This is going to hide allnotifications except alarms. This way I can eliminate all distractions. To turn Focus Assist off, justclick on it one more time. Number six, get remoteaccess with Quick Assist. Did you ever get a call from your parents and they were totally upsetbecause all of a sudden the computer screen ontheir PC is upside down or their Task Bar forsome reason is now stuck on the side and they can't get it back. Well instead of spending the next hour or so on the phone trying to navigate them to the solution, youcould use Quick Assist to create a remote connection to their PC. This way you can securelytake over their computer and fixed a problem for them a lot faster. All you have to do isto start Quick Assist and then select assist another person. Give the six digit code tothe person you're helping, so if it's your parents eitherwith an email, with a text message or just tell itto them over the phone. The other person needs toopen Quick Assist as well, select Get Assistance and type in the code that they just got from you. Then they need to select Share Screen and once the connection is established click Allow in the Windows that pops up. Then you're in controlof the other computer and you can fix the problem. Number seven, minimizequickly with Aero Shake. Aero Shake is a fun little feature to quickly minimize opened windows. Just grab the window youwant to keep by holding its title bar and startsshaking it a little bit. It's going to minimizeall other open windows. This way you can fully focuson the one open window. If you did the shaking by mistake, just shake it again andthey're all going to come back. If you're like me and alwayshave countless windows open, this is much faster than minimizing each window individually. And I use it a lot when I want to clean up before a video conference. If you're not a shaker andyou like to use shortcuts, you can also use the shortcutWindows and the Home key. It does the same thing. Number eight, look at multiplewindows with split screen. I often need to look at several windows on the same screen at the same time. This is easily done with Snap Assists. So let's say working in the VBA Editor, but I also want to see the changes that are made to the Excelfile as the code is running whereas I'm debugging. If I click on the worksheetside that we be a Windows minimized, I'd like to fix it in place. To do that, I'll drag theVBA Window all the way to the right where it will snap in place. Then they'll click on the Excel file so you can be on the left hand side. You can also use the shortcut windows and the left or right arrow keys for this. This works for any applicationand you can even split the screen in four. Number nine, improve yoursleep with nightlight. You probably know thisalready, but this is something that really made a difference for me. Research shows that theblue light that's emitted by the screens or displays can interfere with your natural sleeping patterns, mainly because it cannegatively affect the production of melatonin, the hormone that regulates the sleep wake cycle. I'm a bit of a night owl, I prefer to work late in the evening. I used to have a lot of problems falling asleep afterwards. I'd often read for hoursbefore I could finally sleep. Since I activated nightlight, this improved a lot andI get much better sleep. To set it up just rightclick on the windows icon, select Settings, System and Display. Up here you can turnnightlight on and off. You can use the settingshere to set a fixed time for it to automatically turn on and off. You can also adjust thestrength of the feature up here. Number 10 capture yourscreen with Snip & Sketch. Another one you're probably familiar with, but it's just so useful that it has to be on my list Snip & Sketch it's super handy screen capture tool. To open it, just click the Windows button and type in Snip & Sketch. You'll see the application open up. You can also use this shortcut. To get a screen grab, click on New now you have four choices. You can get a screencapture in rectangle form. You can also get it as a freeform area with around select. You can also just grab the active window or get a screen captureof the entire screen with Fullscreen Snip. What's even better is thatyou can delay your capture by three or 10 seconds. During this time, you can click drop downs or arrange the screen or the content so it's ready for the snip. After you took the snip,you can add a notations or highlight some areas. When you're done, you caneither save it as a file or copied to theclipboard so you can paste it somewhere else. So these are my tips on how you can make better use of Windows 10. Do you have a favorite one or any other tips that work well for you? Please comment below and let me know. A big thanks to Skillsharefor sponsoring today's video and supporting my channel. Skillshare offers thousandsof inspiring classes for curious people like me and you. Topics cover a wide range. Some examples are businessanalytics, entrepreneurship, leadership, marketing and productivity. 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