Top 10 cool and useful tricks and hidden features of Windows 10 that you probably don’t know
There are lots of hidden features in Windows 10 that you hardly know about. If you use Windows 10 or you are a computer student, then you must have known about these features, which I’m going to tell you with the help of these tricks, you can do your work with ease and in a cool way, and you can amaze your friends and colleagues. So let’s take a look at some of the cool and hidden features of Windows 10 that you hardly ever use.
1. Enable Slide to shut down
Hello friends, if you use a computer or laptop, you must shut down your pc or laptop after the work is done. You may be shut down your pc or laptop by going to the Start menu and clicking on the power button, or you will be shutting down your pc or laptop Key combination of alt+ F4. Shut down your pc or laptop by sliding the screen is one of the coolest ways to shut down. But do you know that in windows 10, you can shut down your pc or laptop by just sliding the screen? So, let’s see how you can shut down your pc or laptop by using slide the screen.
- just go to the desktop and right-click the mouse
- then go to New->shortcut
- After clicking on the shortcut button, a pop-up window will open in front of you. In the popup window, you will see the text field for “type the location of the item.” In that text field, you have to paste the following text and click next.
- Paste this location= %windir%\System32\SlideToShutDown.exe
- After clicking next, you can rename this shortcut or keep it default
- Now your pc or laptop is ready to shut down by sliding the screen. Double click on the slide to shutdown icon and slide the screen, and your pc will shut down.
2. Enable God Mode
Hello friends, have you ever heard about god mode. If you are using a computer or laptop, you must have done the control panel. There are some settings in the control panel that are not easily understood, and hard to understand what is this or these settings use for and to get a particular setting, one may have to go deep into the control panel. Lots of time is wasted in tha god mode comes into the picture, for the solution of this problem. In god mode, you will find the setting of your pc or laptop in the detailed. Whatever the setting you have to go to, you will easily get that setting in god mode. You don’t need to wander in the control panel to find the particular settings. You can save lots of time by using god mode. So, let’s see how you can create god mode on your pc or laptop.
- First, go to the desktop and right-click the mouse.
- Click on New and then click on the folder to create new folder
- You have to put this text in the place of the name of the folder and hit enter: ” GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}.”
- Text : GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
- Now your god mode has been created; you have to go to it; you will get all your pc or laptop settings.
3. Hidden shortcut keys of window
- Shortcut key to create folder If you use a computer or laptop, you must have created a new folder. To create a folder, you must right-click on the mouse and do New > Folder.
Use this key combination to create a folder: Ctrl+Shift+N
2. Shortcut key your computer or laptop
Window key+L is used to lock the screen.
If you use this key on your pc or laptop, your computer will be locked, and you will ask for a password for login.
3. Shortcut key to open task manager
Ctrl+Shift+Esc
4. Shortcut key to permanently delete anything, ex. file, software, or any folders
Shift+Delete
5. Shortcut key to rename any file or folder
Select the file or folder you want to rename and press keyF2 given on the keyboard. Give the desired name to the file or folder, and then hit enter.
6 . Shortcut key to switch onto the program
Alt+Tab
7. Shortcut key to open Emoji keyword
Window key + .
4. Create your own shortcut key
If you use the Windows operating system, then you must have to use built-in shortcut keys. But do you know that in the window operating system, you can create your own shortcut key to open particular program or file.so let’s see that how you can create shortcut key to open a specific program.
Select file or folder for which you want to create shortcut key>Right click on the mouse> go to the properties>
In the attribute of the shortcut key, you have to create a shortcut key with Ctrl+Alt+> then click on the application and hit ok.
Suppose I created the Ctrl+Alt+G key combination to open Google chrome. If I’m using any program or anything on the computer and need to use chrome during that work, I will do it using the shortcut key I made.
5. Encrypt your Pendrive with a password
Insert your pen drive into your pc or laptop. Nw right click on the drive of your Pendrive(D drive) and then select "Turn On BitLocker" then click on the "use password" to protect the drive and enter the desired password you want to set in both the password field. Your Pendrive will become encrypted and ask for a password whenever you connect the pen drive with other devices.
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