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How to check your monitor’s refresh rate

The good news is that it’s fairly easy to check your monitor’s refresh rate. Sometimes you’ll find there are hardware settings on your monitor that you’ll need to access via the menus but for the most part, you can find out what your refresh rate is directly from Windows.

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First, you need to open your Windows display settings:

  • Right-click on your desktop and click Display settings
  • Scroll down until you see Advanced display settings
  • Then scroll down to Refresh rate

This will display the refresh rate your monitor and computer are currently set to. It usually defaults to 60Hz, even if your monitor technically has a higher refresh rate.

If you see a drop-down here click it and see if there are any other options for refresh rate. If your monitor is capable of more then you should be able to select a higher rate from here too. For example, you might be able to choose from 120Hz or 240Hz options.

It’s worth noting that some monitors require certain cables to run at their maximum refresh rate. Depending on your monitor specs you may need either a DisplayPort cable or HDMI cable for the best results. Higher-spec cables like HDM 2.1 (for example) can support higher refresh rates in some instances. But it depends on your PC and the monitor specs.

If you find you can’t access the display settings by the method above don’t worry as there are other options.

You can also access refresh rate settings via Nvidia’s control panel:

  • Right-click on your desktop and click the Nvidia Control panel
  • Under Display find the option for Change resolution
  • From there click the Refresh rate drop-down and select the highest possible setting

Note in Windows 11 you may have to click Show more options to see the Nvidia control panel in the menu in the first step.

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How to use a Second Monitor while Gaming on the Primary

Let us start by setting the right screen as your primary option for gaming on Windows 10. Then, show you how to switch to the secondary monitor and back to the primary.

STEP 1 Change Primary Display in Windows

  1. Right-click on the desktop background
  2. Select “Display Settings” from the menu
  3. Choose the screen you want to use for gaming
  4. Set it as the primary display by selecting “Make this my main display”
  5. The chosen monitor will now be set as the primary display.

STEP 2 Adjust NVIDIA Control Panel Settings

  1. Open the NVIDIA Control Panel
  2. In the left pane, under “Display,” select “Set up multiple displays”
  3. Right-click on the display number you wish to make primary
  4. Choose “Make primary.”
  5. Click “Apply,” then confirm with “Yes”.

STEP 3 Enable Borderless Windowed Mode in Game

  1. Open the graphics options in your game
  2. Locate the display mode settings
  3. Enable the “Borderless Windowed” mode.
    • Note: Some hardware configurations may experience FPS issues in this mode.
  4. Check and adjust the Aspect Ratio settings if necessary.
    • Note: This is important to avoid having a game window that is too big or too small.
  5. Click on the other monitor to keep the game playing in full-screen.
  6. Use Alt+Tab to switch between screens as needed.
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How to manage email messages by using rules in Outlook

Rules are applied to incoming messages and can be created from any folder.

  1. To quickly create a rule that moves all email from a specific sender or a set of senders to a folder, right-click a message in your message list that you want to create a rule for, hover over Rules and then select Create rule.
  2. Choose the folder where you want all messages from that sender or set of senders to be moved, and then select OK.
  3. After selecting OK, the rule will be applied to all incoming messages.

If you’d like to do more than just move the message from a specific sender or set of senders to a folder, select More options. The rules settings menu will open.

A screenshot of the rules settings page

  • Every rule needs at least three things: a name, a condition, and an action. Rules can also contain exceptions to conditions. You can add multiple conditions, actions, and exceptions at each step by choosing Add a condition, Add an action, and Add an exception.
  • If you don’t want any more rules to run after this one does, select the Stop processing more rules check box.
  • Press Save to create your rule or Discard to cancel rule creation.

Edit an inbox rule in new Outlook for Windows

  1. At the top of the page, select Settings .
  2. Select Mail > Rules.
  3. In the rule you want to edit, select edit.
  4. Press Save to save your edited rule.

Note: Some rules created in classic Outlook can’t be processed by new Outlook because they are client-side rules. To fix a rule that was migrated from classic Outlook, create a new rule to replace it.

Delete an inbox rule in new Outlook for Windows

  1. At the top of the page, select Settings
  2. Select Mail > Rules
  3. In the rule you want to delete, select Delete.

    Tip: If you just want to turn the rule off for a while, select the toggle next to the rule.

Set the order in which inbox rules are applied to incoming messages in new Outlook for Windows

Inbox rules are applied to incoming messages based on the order they’re in within the Inbox rules list. You can arrange the order in which the rules you create are applied to messages coming into your inbox.

  1. At the top of the page, select Settings
  2. Select Mail > Rules
  3. Select a rule, and then use the Up arrow or Down arrow to change the order in which the rule is applied to incoming messages.

Run inbox rules on existing messages in new Outlook for Windows

By default, an inbox rule runs on incoming messages after you’ve created the rule. To run a rule on existing messages:

  1. At the top of the page, select Settings
  2. Select Mail > Rules
  3. Select Run rule now next to the rule you want to run.

Disable and enable rules in new Outlook for Windows

If you’d like to temporarily pause, or suspend, a rule from operating and you don’t want to delete it, consider disabling the rule. To disable or enable a rule:

  1. At the top of the page, select Settings
  2. Select Mail > Rules
  3. Use the toggle next to the rule name to disable or enable the rule.Use the toggle to disable or enable a rule.
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How to archive items manually – Outlook

In Outlook: Click File > Info > Tools > Clean up old items
Clean up old items

Tip: Archive and AutoArchive might not be available if your mail profile connects to an Exchange Server. It’s also possible that your organization has a mail retention policy that overrides AutoArchive. Check with your system administrator for more information.

  1. Click the Archive this folder and all subfolders option, and choose the folder you want to archive.
  2. Under Archive items older than, enter a date.

Archive dialog box

  1. You can create multiple .pst files if you want to archive some folders using different settings. For example, you may want to keep items in your Sent folder longer than items in your Inbox folder.
  2. Check the Include items with “Do not AutoArchive” checked box to archive individual items that are excluded from automatic archiving. This option doesn’t remove that exclusion from these items, but instead ignores the Do not AutoArchive setting for this archive only.
  3. Click OK.
To archive only when you want, turn off AutoArchive.

  1. Click File > Options > Advanced
  2. Under AutoArchive, click AutoArchive Settings
  3. Uncheck the Run AutoArchive every n days box.
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Raspberry Pi 5 16GB

So much power, and now with the RAM to back it up, but the price makes this a considered purchase for all but the most die-hard fans.

You may have just glanced over the price, so let’s make this clear. Yes, this is a Raspberry Pi 5 with 16GB of RAM for $120 (£115). That is $40 more than the 8GB model. There is no other difference between the models. We get the same CPU and we can use the same peripherals and accessories.

The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB is exactly the same as previous models of Pi 5. The same accessories and cases will work, and you can still overclock the CPU to get a free boost of speed. The only difference, from a user perspective, between the Raspberry Pi 5’s is the amount of RAM. In fact, you can spot the difference between lower specced Raspberry Pi 5s quite easily. Raspberry Pi has chosen to highlight the fact in the silkscreen. The “table” previously used to identify the RAM is gone, but the resistor used to identify is still present.

Under the hood though, the Raspberry Pi 5 16GB uses the same, lower-cost, D0 stepping as the Raspberry Pi 5 2GB, and this means that the 2 and 16GB models have more in common than the earlier models. The D0 stepping (BCM2712D0) removed “all the non-Raspberry Pi specific logic from the chip” according to Raspberry Pi co-founder Eben Upton, while leaving it functionally identical to the previous.

To really see what the difference is, you would need to de-lid the chip.The “dark silicon” is essentially the unused part of the chip, and the removal of non-Raspberry Pi specific logic means that there is a 33% reduction in die space. What was taken out? On the Raspberry Pi 2GB it was the Ethernet and USB logic, with both features being moved to the RP1 “Southbridge” chip.

If you have already invested in Raspberry Pi 5 AI HATs, NVMe storage, cases and cooling, then you can easily use them with the Raspberry Pi 5 16GB. The GPIO pinout, port locations and chip locations are all the same, and compatible with your add-ons.

More RAM is always better. Your machine has more space to swap data with the CPU, and you can run more applications, or heavier applications without bottlenecks. A 16GB Raspberry Pi 5, with its quad-core 2.4GHz CPU means that we have a true Raspberry Pi desktop. Throw in an NVMe drive and perhaps a little overclock, and your Raspberry Pi 5 16GB would be a viable desktop alternative.

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