If you find yourself hunting for shortcuts amid a chaos of icons on your desktop, use these tips to restore order to the Windows backdrop. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as ...

Q: I have many icons on my desktop. Some have a little white box in the lower left hand corner and in this box is a black curved arrow pointing to the upper right hand corner. What are these little ...

A year ago, when I turned on my Vista machine for the first time, it didn’t take long to realize that unless I mastered keyboard and desktop shortcuts I would be wasting a lot of computing time ...

A desktop overloaded with shortcuts and a taskbar filled with pinned apps can make your desktop look messy and harder to navigate. Fortunately, Windows offers plenty of customization options to make ...

Q: I love those handy icon shortcuts that launch applications and files. In fact, I’m so addicted to them I find it hard to resist adding just one more to my desktop. As a result, I end up with so ...

I confess to being a shortcut freak. After all, why search through folders when you can open the file you want with just one mouse click? However, I am finding that the Quick Launch toolbar, as good ...

Windows 10 comes with a number of keyboard shortcuts to help people with their daily and repetitive tasks. Here's the list of the most common Windows 10 keyboard shortcuts. [Windows Key] + [A]: ...

A reader by the name of Peace8 asks this question: How do I put a shortcut on the desktop so I don’t have to continually type in the name of frequently visited sites? I hope you’re not saying that ...

It’s 2002 and I’ve just unstuck my legs from the school bus seat, run through the front door and up the stairs using all four limbs, and rocketed into the computer room. I push the power button in, ...

There's a keyboard shortcut to show the desktop on most (GNOME-based) Linux systems—Ctrl+Alt+D, or sometimes just Windows+D. If you like having an actual button to drop down, à la Windows, you can ...