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what's up guys welcome back to Pauls hardware today's video is short simple and to the point I have some Windows 10 tips for you guys these are shortcuts that I found myself using very frequently and I'm gonna get straight to the point the main shortcut I wanted to share with you guys today is holding down the shift button while you press the restart button so what this does this allows you to access the advanced startup menu and there's other ways to do this from Windows 10 of course but this is just a quick and easy way to do it and two main reasons I personally use the advanced startup options here of course you can just turn your PC off but you know how to do that there's other things here but the troubleshoot menu is the thing you want to get into here and then Advanced Options is the one I go for two things one is you can automatically have the system reboot into the UEFI from this and if you have a system that's set up with an SSD an nvme Drive that has Windows 10 UEFI mode it might boot so quickly the hitting delete button as the system is starting up it doesn't work and it actually just keeps booting into Windows this will allow you to just click this button hit restart it'll automatically boot into the UEFI and let you go in there and adjust those settings or you can click see more Recovery Options go to startup settings and then hit restart and this will allow you to access an advanced startup menu that will allow you to boot into safe mode so here's the startup settings lists number four is the one I usually use for Safe Mode but you can do some other options here too if you want and then it will boot into safe mode so there's multiple reasons you might want to boot into safe mode but the one reason I do most often is to refresh and reinstall graphics card drivers reboot into safe mode and then run display driver uninstaller and I'll post the link to where you can download that in the video description that'll clear out all your graphics drivers and then you can reboot so if you're swapping between an AMD and NVIDIA graphics card or even just between different graphics cards for benchmarking that's what I use this most often for but also if you have a system that you're trying to troubleshoot if you think you might potentially have a virus or malware rebooting into safe mode to run malwarebytes or an antivirus utility is also a great way to do things because it doesn't load up all the drivers and often it can get you into a clean environment where you can clean out malware and viruses and then reboot and give windows back up and running the way it should now I'll be honest guys originally my idea was to keep this video so laser focused that that was the only thing I was going to share with you but let's go into a few more I have three more to share with you guys that you might find useful and you might not know about this is again just Windows 10 navigation stuff let's talk about the magic of the center click if you have a mouse with a left and right button chances are you also have a scroll wheel you can click down on that scroll wheel and that access the 3rd mouse button also known as Center click and I use this all the time for one if you want to open another instance of an application if you have it tied to your Start menu down here you can just Center click and then it will open up another one rather than reopening or switching over to that second one this is very helpful for instance if I'm loading up gpu-z and I want to monitor my GPU frequency and I want to have a couple of them open so I can display those both on screen Center click over that and it'll open up another version so you can have to those side-by-side Joe just asked if this also applies to file explorer yes it does if you don't open up another one just Center click on that you can open up multiple instances that's also very helpful and if you're using a browser and this works in Chrome and Firefox and I believe Explorer as well you can Center click on stuff to open it in another tab so if I wanted to open Google in another tab Center click on it I got another tab with Google right there or if I wanted to open say this video here in another tab I could Center click on that and it'll open it up right over there also you can Center click on the tab to close it close the tab close the tab just by Center clicking that way you don't have to search and find a little X I find that to be very useful tip number three is going to be a window skirt cut to automatically launch any application that you have down here in the taskbar or at least the first 9 applications so if you want to pin an application to the taskbar just you can right click on it and go to pin to taskbar and that should appear down there so you can launch it whenever you want but you can actually also press the Windows key + the number to launch one of these applications so they're just numbered from the left here so the far left one is number one 2 3 4 and 5 and so on so if I wanted to launch gpu-z which is the fifth application here I can just press Windows key + 5 and gpu-z launches actually most often use a shortcut when I'm trying to do as quick screencap so I have paint assigned in position number three here so I can hit print screen to copy it windows 3 to load up paint ctrl V to paste and then ctrl s to save and now I have saved a screenshots very quickly so that's a quick little short for that I final tip is gonna be how to do an emoji in Windows 10 I've talked about this a little bit before but it's just in a Q&A video so I'm gonna bring it up here again and repeat myself let's say watching a pulse hardware video and you decide I like this video and I want to go and post a comment or something like that you're down in the comments section but you're on a Windows computer and you want to express yourself with an emoji Windows key and the period windows key period they're right next to each other which is kind of handy we'll bring up an emoji insert list here in Windows 10 you can scroll through them you can search through them they're actually sorted just like on your Android or Apple devices for example you can also hit the search icon and search for something like ninja cats and really the only sad thing about this feature is that if you tried to do a ninja cat and you try to post it in an Android environment there is no in ninja cat icon it's actually just a ninja and a cat it's separate so Android and iPhone really need to up their emoji game and get the ninja cat going there but guys that is all for this video I know it has been short and somewhat different but I hope some of these tips have helped you out just little shortcuts that can save you time and I find that when you find something that saves you time and it's a repetitive task you do a lot it adds up and it can save you a lot of time in the long run so I hope you've enjoyed this video and if you have any suggestions shortcuts that you use with Windows 10 leave those in the comment section down below don't forget that the thumbs up button - thanks again for watching this video guys and we'll see you next time