Powerful Windows tips you don't use (but should)

[@terryschima4964]

Yes, love the command prompt; more please.

[@LironSegev]

on it!

[@Flytrap]

@@LironSegev I found and bookmarked a page that has a comprehensive list of cmd commands. I'd post it, but these links tend to get removed.

[@cgsweat]

The only thing about shift+delete is to not get too comfortable using it. I accidentally deleted some essential folders this way when I was manually cleaning files from my hard drive because shift+delete became second nature for me, I just did it without thought and ignored the warning prompt.

[@LironSegev]

true - it happens. I only do it when I need to urgently delete files while copying large files and am running out of space quickly...These video files for the channel are massive and we are forever moving them around

[@charliesretrocomputing]

That's why I just always press DEL to move to recycle bin and that way if i DO delete the wrong thing, I can recover it from recycle bin, and if it was the right thing that I deleted, I can easily empty the recycle bin. I used to use Shift+DEL and one day I accidentally deleted very important files, and from that day on I never used it again.

[@writerpatrick]

I use to try setting the recycle bin to delete anything sent to it but I found I often delete things by accident (especially when rename and create shortcut are right next to it).

[@itsnotme07]

Very cool stuff Liron! Always good to learn new tricks. Been almost 30 years since my boss forced me to get certified in Windows NT 4.0. HAHA. "But boss, I'm a Unix Engineer"...."Not today you aren't".

[@vampyrehunterD]

Thank you for this video. I would love to see cmd prompts!

[@LironSegev]

Noted

[@DungarooTV]

Great tips - some I never knew about. Please do a video on Window's error fixing tools such as chdsk - still very useful

[@gotbordercollies]

These are the best; I have got to save this one too, COMMAND PROMPT - yes, please 👍

[@LironSegev]

awesome - noted!

[@mybeautifuldoggies]

Thanks for the tips! Cmd prompt tips always welcome! 🤗

[@LironSegev]

on it!

[@robh5695]

Thanks, Liron. Knew some, some new. Have a great day!

[@LironSegev]

Glad to help

[@longrolstral]

Thanks for those. 👍 I don't use Windows all that much, but when I do, some of those will be useful. After watching that, I messed about a bit. I just loaded up MS Word and discovered that *ALT + SHIFT + L-ARROW / R-ARROW* will change a line's formatting into the various heading styles. *ALT + TAB* is a nice way to see the open apps, scroll through them and choose the one you want. The permanently delete file thing can also be done by selecting a file and *SHIFT + DEL* no right clicking, but it is great that *SHIFT + Right click* brings up a more complete menu to access other features/options. Thank again.

[@froggie316]

loving tricks with mouse

[@LironSegev]

really cool and super useful!

[@MMAMMA-ds6ln]

Hi. I thanks a lot for your videos, but, at the same time, thank you very much for your clear english. I am from Argentina and I can understand every single Word. You have not idea how important is that!

[@robertberger8642]

As a , with beliefs, I really appreciate these tips. They’re great.

[@LironSegev]

Glad you like them!

[@zona8224]

7:24 instead of right click, shorter is ctrl+shift+delete on a keyboard and then ENTER on a keyboard.

[@LironSegev]

so instead of 2 clicks, its shorter to press 3 keys and then another key? eh...ok

[@zona8224]

@@LironSegev It kinda is to me bcz I am faster on a keyboard. I am used to use less mouse 🤔

[@LironSegev]

@@zona8224 fair enough

[@yerachmielb1]

3:55 you can also do this by holding CTRL + SHIFT and using the scroll wheel

[@coltseavers6298]

Oh wow! These 'mouse setting' info will greatly help me at my work computer. Thank you very much!!!

[@LironSegev]

fantastic!

[@SynK-R]

Thank you Liron for the tips. There was a few little handy tips that was useful. 👍

[@LironSegev]

Glad to hear it!

[@StormChaserZ]

Did not know of a few of these! These are great tips. Thank you. Would love to see more.

[@LironSegev]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@lukusblack6442]

Another trick for the scroll wheel is to hover over your sound taskbar icon, and scroll to raise or lower your volume. The middle click used to open new app windows also works on your browser's links. Middle-clicking a tab in your browser, however, closes that tab.

[@LironSegev]

nice!

[@SirDaffyD]

Some great tips there. The curser resizing one I needed. Upped it from one too two. My eyes aren't that bad, but going upto two made seeing it that much easier.

[@LironSegev]

Good stuff!

[@SirDaffyD]

@LironSegev . Interesting thing I also found by doing this, is that in games, the pointer in the menus is also bigger.

[@Alchemy2.0]

Thank you Liron been wondering how to do this middle click for years

[@LironSegev]

Happy to help

[@timetriad6199]

My favorite is the “Taskbar Toolbar(s)”. I work off my Taskbar, and that includes accessing folders, files, scripts, etc. easily.

[@johnglielmi6428]

Absolutely want to see video on the Command Prompt. Your knowledge is needed. Did you know you can right click on the Windows Logo for the start menu and you can get to setting, the command prompt task manager and more options without having to search for them.

[@garrymcgaw4745]

Nice one, some of those will come in handy. Thanks Liron.

[@LironSegev]

Awesome 👍

[@bikeny]

Thanks for the scroll wheel, cmd prompt, and snap function info. And in the interest of sharing neat things, I learned this from thiojoe: when in notepad, pressing F5 gives you the current date and time. I use it every day. I had heard of the snap stuff but hadn't used it, but the first 2 I list, completely new to me as was the F5. Mind you, I learned computer programming with punch cards, so yeah, even us old timers can still learn new things (and so far I can still see the mouse, so no size change for now, but who knows). Again, thank you for your videos.

[@LironSegev]

happy to help and happy to have you here!

[@JasonWestaway]

Wow, Liron that taskbar mouse I'm so going to use and some others too. Thank you! Take care

[@LironSegev]

great!

[@kgbizy]

Thank you for these tips… the delivery and timing is perfect… keep it short and sweet. Bite size tips. 😂 More CMD tips please.

[@LironSegev]

You got it!

[@christop_bader]

Love the middle click mouse setting nice one

[@LironSegev]

Useful little tip 👍

[@joesoq]

really helpful! i like shortcuts a lot, and the mousewheel clicking is new and might be used in my everyday life

[@LironSegev]

you got it!

[@velvetsky3291]

Last tip was awesome saves a lot of time thank you .

[@LironSegev]

Appreciate you being here 🔥

[@denizinan979]

This video was very helpful, didn’t know many of the tips you presented, very useful stuff, thanks.

[@LironSegev]

Glad it was helpful!

[@oledennis6918]

WOW. Like these little things. Thanks.

[@azudevcr]

Hey nice video!! Here is another mouse trick. If you drag a folder or executable or whatever with your RIGHT mouse button, it will automatically create a shortcut of it when you release the button, so let it go wherever you need a shortcut of something

[@LironSegev]

Nice!

[@jlm4855]

I knew about the mouse , I made mine bigger a long time ago. What I didn't know about was the text size. And other things in this one. Thank you for your video's !

[@LironSegev]

nice!

[@PC-ONE]

Thank you for this video. Some useful stuff in here

[@LironSegev]

Appreciate you being here 🔥

[@Mark-r9g5z]

Awesome TY for a great Video. Love your types

[@buckeyered9]

I like your videos but I haven't used Windows in years, your Linux videos are great.

[@LironSegev]

Appreciate you. Windows is still the number one operating system and Linux is getting better. We would just love to have more drivers and more "Bottles" or "Wine" that helps make apps we can't replace work over there...it will come one day...I hope

[@buckeyered9]

@@LironSegev Even though I don't use windows I still watch your windows videos just to keep up. Thanks

[@shantanusapru]

4:24 - Yes, please!! Also, this was a very useful video as well!

[@LironSegev]

You got it!

[@red--shenroncookingrecipes5444]

thank you for making this video I learnt 2 extra tricks for Windows so once more thank you

[@LironSegev]

Awesome! Appreciate you being here 🔥

[@johnpedersen8387]

Great tips Liron 👌

[@LironSegev]

Happy to help!

[@robertfoster3214]

Thank you very much great information didn't know all tricks on mouse keep it always do great information tec

[@LironSegev]

Glad it was helpful!

[@soaringeaglesinthesky]

Question for you Liron. I use multiple screens and each one has the taskbar. Is there a way to tell windows to open an app in the same window that I clicked the icon in the taskbar of?

[@MatthewCaunsfield]

That middle mouse button is amazing, can't believe i never knew!

[@LironSegev]

Enjoy!

[@scmac5155]

I never knew any of these, and have only done some of them accidentally in the past, so thanks very much

[@LironSegev]

you got it!

[@kedMam-k4o]

Thank you. what to do about Android security is my question.

[@MrSteelyDaniel]

Great video, thanks. Yes, I knew most of these, but the realisation of a transparent command prompt blew my mind :) Showing my age, but I started off with dos 6.22/win 3.1 (well, if I'm being honest, I started with DOS 3.0). It was fun tweaking the daylights out of config.sys and autoexec.bat to free up not KB but bytes, creating multiboot menus, etc. I'm currently looking at the usage of the generated desktop.ini files. What I want to do is create a standard desktop.ini that you could copy/paste over the system created desktop.ini, restricting any system changes, however desktop.ini files seem to be created with links elsewhere.

[@LironSegev]

ahhh the good ol DOS days where if you could write a batch file with beep 10 you were a legend and when we call them directories not folders🤣 Fun Fact: my first Network product was Novell 2.1 way before any GUI interface and had to load and unload NLMs.

[@Ezackiel1]

the scrolling button thing in task barr hahaha game changer for explorer ^^

[@LironSegev]

👍👍

[@NatureZone101]

Very helpful. Thanks.

[@LironSegev]

You're welcome!

[@asan1050]

Thanks for posting this video

[@LironSegev]

It's my pleasure

[@CanuckDividends]

Thank you. I didn't realize that the mouse wheel had those options.

[@LironSegev]

Glad I could help!

[@Doris-y5v]

so simple instructions thanks .

[@LironSegev]

Glad it was helpful!

[@kenwong7083]

Thanks, I been using computer for 30 years and did not know the middle mouse click to open multi-instances of explorer.

[@LironSegev]

crazy right?!?! and we know how useful that is!

[@maxmuster7003]

I like to use the DOS command prompt without Windows. In DOS the user have the full power of the entire PC.

[@charliesretrocomputing]

I would love a command prompt video but even better a PowerShell video, I've been REALLY getting into PowerShell and both the PowerShell terminal and the ps1 language are very powerful and great to know, I'd love to see that as well!

[@LironSegev]

Noted!

[@charliesretrocomputing]

@@LironSegev now im excited what's coming next? 😂

[@LironSegev]

@@charliesretrocomputing always something 😉

[@adriandecu6846]

Outstanding ❤❤❤

[@ronaldkrause891]

Great video could u help me with my McAfee would not open so I Uninstaller it and when I try to reinstall it in runs in to an error it won't reinstall.

[@humanpatrolledspace]

Yes Command Prompt please 😎

[@LironSegev]

on it!

[@-A.J-]

Please can you make a video about mouse for very large hands. struggling to find anywhere. could be nice guide for many people with large hands. thank you

[@charlienyc1]

I thought you might mention that most scrollwheel mice support back and forward browser navigation.

[@rockymarquiss8327]

On deleting a file you can also hit the delete key while holding down the shift key...

[@pgronemeier]

WoW! Loved them all! Too bad I won't remember any of these....LoL

[@LironSegev]

😂 pick a few and start using them. The middle click is so useful

[@scmac5155]

I have questions about networking, especially how a router works and how it connects devices on a local network to the internet, if you haven’t done a video on that, yet

[@nmcsilva]

More tips about command prompt, please!! Thanks 👍

[@LironSegev]

You got it!

[@markclark787]

I did not know the ALT mouse click. I also change (I am also older) to black/white to change color over light text. I also got a Logitech M720 mouse (non-gaming no RGB :( ) with a wheel unlock for super-fast scrolling and all the extra buttons for multimedia.

[@LironSegev]

nice!

[@kniknayme9865]

bigger mouse. exactly what I needed. (just a 2 for now!) thks

[@TommyGunz_]

I only have one Nit Pick. Instead of right clicking then holding down shift and clicking delete. You can just click the item , press shift and delete on your keyboard. And skip having to right click on it.

[@LironSegev]

not a nit pick - just easier to show it on the screen. Some people like keyboards more, while others like the mouse more. Choose the option that works for you.

[@mikejones9961]

Thanks!

[@LironSegev]

Really appreciate you being here🔥

[@gwine9087]

Cheers!

[@Divyamshu-ij3uc]

Please post videos with titled Time-Stamps...

[@LironSegev]

k

[@kevinheard8364]

The ALT+ in notepad is a WINNER! 30-plus years...smh Great hint! thanks

[@jarchack]

I've always used a 3rd party text editor that came with a block select mode and Windows had it the whole time.

[@LironSegev]

the more you know :)

[@Starkman3]

Liron, do you have recommendations about how to keep my info off the dark web, or how best to get it removed, if possible? I would appreciate a short tutorial, if you have time...

[@grobbelm]

Neat! Thanks.

[@LironSegev]

No problem!

[@avirtualworld4U]

Good good yes more Please

[@LironSegev]

on it

[@Black_Blow_Fly]

You Wizard ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@LironSegev]

🤣

[@Alpha-ms9nj]

Cool stuff I didn't know, thanks. I manipulated my mouse pointer to a larger size and it's blue now as well lol. Thanks again, your channel is much appreciated.

[@LironSegev]

Glad I could help!

[@ScottGrammer]

I don't know everything about everything all of the time, but I know something about some things sometimes.

[@LironSegev]

fair😜

[@ScottGrammer]

@@LironSegev I always enjoy your channel! 😁

[@solinari4101]

actually, all you need to do to delete files is select it, then shift+del. no need to right click

[@LironSegev]

yes - but showing it on a screen is just easier visually

[@ExplodingConsole]

I forget the name of the program. However, there is one in the Command Prompt you can use to get Windows to check for and if you want, also auto download and install updates for installed software. This can even work for non-Microsoft programs. Edit: I looked it up, it's WinGet. I think it only works on newer versions on Windows 10 and on Windows 11 but it's very useful.

[@christiaanvandermerwe3784]

I need help my windows 11 acting strangely when typing some letters it jumps to the left and same with mouse when dragging an open file or program goes to left byself

[@Hugh248]

The last thing that you mentioned, i right click on recycle bin and auto set it to permanently delete.

[@LironSegev]

that's dangerous in my opinion as most of the time you want things to go in there and then decide later if you want to permanently remove them. But each to their own I guess.

[@Hugh248]

I do that cause i only delete, when i know definitely i don't want whatever it is i'm deleting.

[@MikeDrouilhet]

Yes, please Sir.

[@LironSegev]

no problem

[@mikepanchaud1]

Info on batch files would be welome e.e. to copy a file to a few different places, in one one click.

[@LironSegev]

cool

[@yaakovhabusha]

תודה על הטיפים

[@LironSegev]

No problem 👍👍

[@JFSmith-nb8hf]

Best tip I was ever given was " Dump Windows altogether" The less of my money going into Bill the snoop's pocket, the better.

[@LironSegev]

Was waiting for this. They never fail to 🤮

[@JFSmith-nb8hf]

@@LironSegev And I was waiting for your reply.😆

[@LironSegev]

@JFSmith-nb8hf why can't we all just live in peace? 😆

[@woodturner1954]

Middle mouse button/wheel not making dupes on my Windows 10 machine.

[@collieclone]

Try opening up File Explorer once, then press the middle button while holding the pointer over the icon and s l o w l y clicking it a few times. It may not work straight away, but it's worth trying it a few times until it works.

[@woodturner1954]

@@collieclone Sorry no luck on my machine. That's ok

[@philrichmond7567]

Wow wee 😮

[@LironSegev]

🤣

[@TheDarkCovenant]

what about a video on how to stop your text from being slow typing as you type on your keyboard

[@brianfoxworthe]

@TheDarkCovenant Last year I ran into this issue where the keyboard latency made OneNote unusable. It turns out the problem was caused by a Control Panel setting for Ease of Access. Specifically, I disabled the Text Cursor Indicator option and it immediately resolved the sluggish typing issue in OneNote. Go figure. Edit: In Win11, it looks like this option is now found in Settings (not cpanel). Look for "Text cursor indicator" in the Accessibility section and toggle it off.

[@nicolasfortin4216]

cmd prompt would love more tips on this, cheers.

[@LironSegev]

noted!

[@mack10blue]

lets goooooo!!

[@highlanderknight]

I've got three 4K monitors, so I have changed the pointer size slightly and it's color, just so I can find the darn thing.

[@LironSegev]

Haha exactly! Seems minor but makes a world of a difference. I do the same

[@ritajain2453]

Dear Liron, wish you and your family a very happy Durga Puja ❤️❤️

[@Ockv74]

❤❤❤

[@LironSegev]

🔥🔥🔥

[@pedraw]

I didnt even know you could click with the wheel

[@BRAVO_TWO_NINE]

Who knew, always been left clicking. THANKS.

[@LironSegev]

right?

[@AceMoonshot]

​@@LironSegev I see what you did there...

[@LironSegev]

Hehe

[@johnthemarine2518]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@LironSegev]

🔥

[@soltanakouider5922]

PLS HELP U TUBE IS BECAME BLACK AND WHITE WHAT TO DO

[@LironSegev]

no idea

[@froggie316]

press the button

[@rwfrench66GenX]

Nice tips, but I didn’t see a tip for the command in the thumbnail C:/>

[@LironSegev]

there is literally a whole section on it

[@rwfrench66GenX]

@@LironSegev thanks, I saw your tips on the different things you could do in the command prompt but your thumbnail shows C:/> and it looks like a green mouse is attached to it, implying there was some trick involving the mouse that didn’t involve a folder in the command prompt. Apparently it was bad graphic art combined with a typo.

[@froggie316]

new video