1.If you own a PC, you need to do this once a month

-Go to your keyboard and press Windows + R, type in CMD and run it as administrator.

In the CMD window type in “winget upgrade” and hit Enter

This will show you all the outdated apps and softwares existing on your PC

Now, type in “winget upgrade –all” and hit Enter.

This is going to update all of the outdated apps/softwares.

2.How to switch between 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz WiFi, with PowerShell

To check your current connection, open up your Ethernet settings – Status – Properties, as shown below

You can check it from the “Network band” line

To change it, run Powershell as administrator and type in “netsh wlan show networks” as shown below

Go ahead and look up your 5 GHz connection pay attention to “_5G” or “-5G”, simply copy the connection name and use the command below.

Connect to it using “netsh wlan connect name=“connection name““.

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I will showcase 2 tricks you can try if your PC started to lag lately

•  run cmd as administrator

• Next: type in :”DISM /online /cleanup-image /checkhealth” and hit enter

This will check your Windows Image and repair any corrupted system file that might slow down your PC.

• windows button + x

• go to System

Look up Storage and then Storage Sense.

Make sure Storage Sense in turned on.

This will scan your entire PC for unnecessary files and temporary items,freeing up space automatically.

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Your processor might not be using all cores from the get go so let’s check/fix that.

1.Press Windows key + R to open up run command.

Type in msconfig and hit OK.

2.Go onto the BOOT tab

3.Select Advanced options

4.Tick the “Number of processors” option and from the drop down menu below,select the highest number as shown below.

5.Click “OK” and then “Apply”, simply restart your PC after.

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I’ll showcase an MSI bios:

1.Enable your XMP

Now,if you’ve purchased a very fast RAM,you HAVE to turn XMP on(MSI has made this quite simple,just click on the “XMP profile 1”)

The yellow pointing arrow shows the speed that the RAM will run at with XMP turned on.

2.Turn on NVME CPU lanes :Go ahead and enter the Advanced settings tab(F7)

NOTE In order to avoid damaging your system DO NOT change any voltage setting,also,every setting is reversible (easiest way is to unplug the bios battery from the motherboard).

Enter the settings tab

Advanced

In this case,enter PCIe

and finally PCIe lanes source

Select CPU,This will ensure the maximum speed for the Nvme.

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1.Create a timed log

Open up notepad and type in “.LOG” all caps,and save that file.

Now,every time you open it,a time stamp will appear.

Note:you can manually add a timestamp by going to edit – Time/Date

2.Header/Footer setup

If you wanted to print a notepad file,you can slightly modify it. Go to page setup:

In the Footer tab we have the following commands:

&L will allign the text to the left

&C will allign the text to the center

&R will allign the text to the right

&D will add the currect date

&T will add the current time

&F will print the name of the document

&P will put the page number in

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1.Go down to your taskbar and search for “Phone link”

With it,you can connect your phone directly to your PC,once connected you and send/receive text messages and also make phone calls directly from your PC.

2.Head over to the Microsoft store and search for “PowerToys”

Once installed,you get a lot of windows useful utilities.

Two of my favourites are:

You can press

And that will keep the currently active windows on top of everything else.

And the second one,press

With this you can extract text from anything.

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1.If you have a gif that you really like, you can ass it to your Chrome screen.

Open up chrome and click on Customize Chrome

Click on Upload an image ,select the gif you have saved on your computer, and that will turn into your background

2.If you need to lock your computer really quickly just hit windows key + L on your keyboard and it will go to the lockscreen

3.You can reset your graphics card by pressing Windows key + Shift + Ctrl + B,you will hear a little beep and your screen will start flashing ,that’s how you know it worked.

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Here are a couple Windows tips:

1.Press “Ctrl”+”Shift”+”Esc”- this will bring up task manager

Whilst in task manager go to options and tick the “Always on top” option.

This will allow Task manager to always show up on top of all other applications,whenever called upon.

2.Also in task manage,go to startup

Now go to startup impact and click it

Right click on anything you don’t want starting up when you start your computer.

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Here are a couple of things you can try on your PC.

1.Right click on desktop -“New”- “Shortcut” and type in “slidetoshutdown”

This will add a slide effect will pop up when you want to shutdown your PC.

2.Right click on an app that you frequently use and go to properties,in the shortcut tab,go ahead and type in any key combination you want that is not currently in use,now when you hit that combination the app will run.

3.Press windows key + R and type in “mrt” and hit ok

Now,this will pop up

Now you can do a quick scan for any viruses that might be in your computer.

Quick note,this might take quite a while to scan and i recommend you do this when you are AFK.

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