Computer tricks you might need(Shortcut)

These are smart tricks improve your everyday computer experience.

Ctrl + T opens a new tab

When you work a lot on your PC and your web browser is your number one tool, opening new tabs is an action that you do countless times during the day.

Instead of doing it manually with your mouse, you can simply press “ctrl” and the letter T and a new tab will open. If you are using a MacBook, you will press “command” instead of “ctrl.”

How To Use Private Browsing.

The simple meaning of private browsing is that your browsing history and cookies of the sites you visit will not be saved. Google Chrome call it Incognito and you can use Ctrl+Shit+N to open it.

Another way to open incognito is to right click on the chrome icon on your taskbar and choose New Incognito Window. You can open this private browsing feature in Firefox by pressing Ctrl, Shift and P. Internet Explorer uses the same keys as Firefox.

How to Block Some Websites from Opening on Your Computer.

You can easily blog any site from your computer using this awesome computer trick. First, bring out the Run dialog box by Clicking start, type run, hit enter Or if you like using shortcuts which are a good habit, simply hold the windows key + letter R and voila, the Run box appears.

Type in this code %windir%system32driversetc in the Run box and hit the Enter key.

What this does is that it will open the etc folder. This etc. folder contains a file called Host and some other files. We are interested in the Host file here. It is in this Host file that you are going to tell your computer not to visit a site but getting to the host file through the above step will not give you access to save your settings at the end of the day, I just want you to see the folder before following the right step.

In other to have full access to this file, Click Start and search for notepad, right click on Notepad and select Run as administrator. Look at the taskbar on notepad click on File>Open>This Pc>Local Disk C:>Windows>system32>driver>etc When you get to this etc folder, at the bottom of notepad open box change the Text Documents drop down box to All Files.

Double click on Host and type the following code at the bottom of the page

127.0.0.2 website you want to block

127.0.0.3 www.website you want to block

127.0.0.4 another website you want to block

127.0.0.5 www.another website you want to block

You can follow the above pattern to add as many websites as you want.

How to paste a text without its format.

Have you ever copied a text and you don’t wish to have its format along with it? The common way to paste is Ctrl + V but this will paste the format of the text along with it. After pasting the text, click or highlight if the texts are many and use Ctrl + Spacebar to remove the formatting.

The above trick will work fine for most text document like Microsoft Word and others but in some program, you can use Ctrl + Shift + V to paste the plain text without the formatting.

Some other ways to do this, simply paste the text in Notepad the copy and paste in word or in any program you want to use the text.

Ctrl+Alt+V will display the Paste dialog box for you to choose the type or format you want for the text.



A laptop battery charges faster when in airplane mode.

When your laptop is on airplane mode it means that many features, like your Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, are disabled. This takes some pressure off your battery and allows it to charge faster than if operating normally. Expect to see your laptop fully charged 10-15 minutes faster than if you had the airplane mode off.

How to delete an entire Word In Office.

This simple trick handy when you make a mistake any want to delete the entire word. You don’t need to start hitting the backspace key, no.

Just hold the Ctrl key then hit the backspace key once.

How to Take an Image of Your Screen? (Screenshot What Is Displayed)

Click start and type snipping tool. Click New and drag the cursor to where you want to capture.

This simple trick is very useful for everyone. This trick is also available for Mac users using Command+Shit+4