Tips and Tricks

Tip #1 – How To Boot Into Safe Mode in Windows 10

Microsoft Windows 10 has a new way of booting into Safe Mode if you can boot to the login screen. Follow these steps:

  1. Let your computer boot up to the Windows login screen and then hold down the "Shift" key and at the same time click on the "Power" button in the lower right hand corner of your screen and then select "Restart".
  2. In the next window click on "Troubleshoot".
  3. Next click on "Advanced options".
  4. Then click on "Startup Settings".
  5. On the resulting "Startup Settings" window click on "Restart".
  6. Next click on either "Enable Safe Mode" or "Enable Safe Mode with Networking". "Safe Mode" will not provide network or Internet access while "Safe Mode with Networking" will.
  7. Your computer will then boot into the Safe Mode option you selected.

Tip #2 - Microsoft Word – Pick Up Where You Last Left Off Work

If you want to have Microsoft Word remember the last place where you were working in a document, just open the document and press "SHIFT + F5". You can now close the document and when you reopen it you will see a notification stating:

"Welcome back!

Pick up where you left off:

last time worked on"

Just click on this.


Tip #3 – Power User Shortcuts: Command Line

If you are a power user you may often find yourself managing Windows features and file system via the command line interface. That old fashioned black box has been around for a long time and may not be as sophisticated as the latest Windows graphical interface, but it does include some efficiency shortcuts. The most valuable may be the command buffer, which remembers previously entered commands within a session. Use the up/down arrows to scroll through the list of previously entered commands and edit as necessary to make subsequent command entry faster. Between sessions, build your own library of commands in a text file and copy them as needed, using or a simple right-click on the command window to paste it.