This week's top tips

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Hopefully you didn't fall for any fake headlines online yet — I think I may have fallen for something first thing this morning. The good news is that today's top tips newsletter is chock-full of real advice for making the most of your Windows PC, as always. ⌚ This entire email will take you two minutes to read. Remember: If you'd rather not receive these Monday tip roundups, [you can easily opt out of them](=) without affecting the rest of your subscription. ☑ [Got it — don't show this again](=)​ This week's reader suggestion 🖐️ I've talked about [your laptop touchpad's hidden gestures — and how you can customize them]( — before. But that touchpad (sometimes called a trackpad) has some hidden multi-finger taps, too. On most modern PCs, some three and four-finger tap actions can speed up how you do things with your touchpad — and you can customize them, too. 💻 This works on both Windows 10 and Windows 11, although it may not work on some older laptops, which don't support "Precision Touchpad" technology ➜ Windows Intelligence reader Jim H. pointed out you can use quick multi-finger taps on your touchpad, too. Here's what you can do out of the box: - Tap with three fingers to activate the Search popup. - Tap with four fingers to see notifications. But you can do more — you could make either of these multi-finger tap actions Play/Pause audio, if you like, or act as a middle mouse button click. (A two finger tap, of course, functions as a right-click.) To change how this works on Windows 11, open the Start menu and head to Settings > Bluetooth & devices > Touchpad. Expand the "Three-finger gestures" or "Four-finger gestures" section and choose your preferred action from the "Taps" dropdown box. 🔟 On Windows 10, you'll find these options at Settings > Devices > Touchpad instead. Look under "Three-finger gestures" or "Four-finger gestures." [The Touchpad settings showing four-finger tap options on Windows 11.] 📲 This week's Android Intelligence reader tip is all about a next-level location-sharing system in Google Maps. [Read it here]()! ​ 🎁 Share your knowledge, get a free gift in return Hey — let's feature your advice next! If you've got a useful shortcut you rely on, an off-the-beaten path application that makes your life easier, or any other Windows-related suggestion you'd like to share with your fellow Windows Intelligence readers, [share it with me here](=). If I end up using your tip in a future issue, I'll send you a [free month of ​Intelligence Insider membership]() as a special thank you gift for your submission! --------------------------------------------------------------- Some tips you don't want to miss Now, a rapid-fire summary of the best useful tips from our most recent issues — just in case you overlooked something or haven't explored it yet! ⬇️ Install almost any Windows app without a browser: Microsoft's hidden Windows Package Manager offers a way to quickly, safely install nearly any Windows application in a snap — and there's a convenient graphical interface you can get for it, too. Here's [how to use Winget to install apps](). 🖱️ Stop Windows from hiding all those scroll bars: Modern PCs hide scroll bars whenever they can, but you can stop it. On Windows 11, open the Settings app, select "Accessibility," click "Visual effects," and activate "Always show scrollbars." On Windows 10, open Settings, select "Ease of Access," click Display" in the left pane, scroll down to "Simplify and personalize Windows," and turn off "Automatically hide scroll bars in Windows." 🖥️ Make text look better for your PC's display: Windows has a ClearType feature that makes text look better on some displays. To tweak it, open the Start menu, search for "ClearType," and launch the "Adjust ClearType text" tool. Click through the wizard to adjust how text looks on your PC. Not every application will obey the choice you make here, but many will — and soon, Google Chrome will follow these tweaks, too. 🛠️ Become a Google Sheets mastermind: Whether you’re a Google Sheets pro or don’t even know what a ‘shortcut’ is, the Google Sheets Tips newsletter will supercharge your skills with handy tips ‘n’ tricks! 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