This week's top tips

Take control of those browser tabs  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ​ Tabs, tabs everywhere! I open and close a ton of web browser tabs throughout the day on my PC. Windows 11 amped up the tab game even further, adding tabs to applications like File Explorer and Notepad. Now, tabs are really all over the place. We talk a lot about window management on Windows, but I bet a lot of us spend more time managing tabs than we do windows. So let's talk about a faster way to manage those tabs. (Plus, I'll show you a related window-management trick, too.) ⌚ 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](=)​ #top This week's reader suggestion 🖱️ Tabs are arguably just as important as windows on modern versions of Windows. It's easy to end up with a lot of tabs, and there's a good chance you spend a lot of time opening and closing them. This week's tip offers a quick way to close those tabs — and I've got some quick related tricks, too. 💻 This tip works on both Windows 10 and Windows 11. (It works on basically any platform with a mouse.) ➜ Windows Intelligence reader Andrew N. wrote in with a tip he's excited to share: Just middle-click a tab to close it. This works in Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, File Explorer, Notepad, the Terminal, and just about any application with tabs. After you close a tab, the tab to the right will slide over under your mouse cursor, so you can also middle-click several times to close multiple tabs. [The Windows mouse cursor hovering over a browser tab in Google Chrome.] ⌨️ Are you more of a keyboard person? You can also close the current tab by pressing Ctrl+W in most applications. 🖱️ Middle-clicking will also open tabs. Just middle-click a link in your web browser of choice to open it in a new tab, for example. On Windows 11 with its tabbed File Explorer, you can also middle-click a folder in File Explorer to open it in another tab. 👀 You can middle-click to close windows, too! While using Alt+Tab or when mousing over an application icon on the Windows taskbar, middle-click a window's thumbnail to quickly close it — just like you would a tab. [A mouse cursor hovered over a taskbar window thumbnail on Windows 11.] ✅ Looking for this week's Android Intelligence reader tip? It's all about doing more with Google Tasks. [Read it here](=)! 💡 Got an exceptional tip you'd like to share with other Windows enthusiasts? [Submit it here]( — or just reply to this email and share it with me! Your advice may be featured in a future newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------- 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! 💾 Back up your PC's files to an external drive: Your PC will soon get a Windows Backup tool that creates smartphone-style backups linked to your OneDrive storage, but you can [use the built-in File History tool]() to create local backups on an external drive. You can use it at the same time as OneDrive cloud backup, too, for an extra layer of file protection. 📝 Get Microsoft's free grammar checker (in Chrome, too): Want a writing assistant? Microsoft Editor is a free grammar-checking browser extension for [Google Chrome](=) or [Microsoft Edge](). After downloading it and signing in with a Microsoft account, it will check your grammar (not just spelling!) anywhere you write on the web. ⚙️ Open your PC's Settings in the fastest possible way: Press Windows+i (that's a lower-case i) to open the Settings window from anywhere in Windows 10 or Windows 11. Bonus: You can immediately start typing to search for a setting after opening the window. 📈 Vinyl sales are making a huge comeback: Back in the 70s, the music industry sold 500 million records every single year, but by 2006, that number had dropped to less than 1 million. Which is why the world was shocked when new vinyl sales hit 40 million in 2021. Is it because of millennial hipsters, and does this mean you should dust off that old vinyl record player in your basement? [Find out in this 4-minute breakdown from The Hustle](=), and subscribe to the Hustle’s YouTube channel for more eye-delighting videos — all for free! [SPONSORED] 🔬 Put any site's privacy policy under the microscope: Privacy policies are critically important, but they're also virtually impossible to keep up with. Well, take note: A crafty site called [Terms of Service; Didn't Read]( will do the heavy lifting for you. Just search the site for any app or service you're using, and it'll show you an easy-to-follow breakdown of all the dicey things that destination might do with your data. Doesn't get much easier than that. 💡 Flip the switch on some secret Chrome settings: The Chrome Android app is overflowing with interesting under-development options that aren't yet available to most phone-owning mammals. And with about 20 seconds of effort, you can enable 'em right now and give yourself all sorts of extra browsing powers. [Check out this roadmap to four such tucked-away features well worth your while to find](=). 📩 Translate any email instantly: You'd never know it, but Google's in the midst of rolling out a handy new option to translate the text of any email you're viewing on the fly — right inside of Gmail. On Android, open any email, then tap the three-dot menu icon next to the sender's name and look for "Translate" in the menu that pops up. You can also find the option within the same three-dot menu in Gmail on the web. 🥳 Don’t miss these Back-To-Whatever deals: You don't have to be a student, professor, or even slightly intellectual to take advantage of all these epic Back-To-School deals. And while school may already be “back” for some, [Best Buy]( continues to stock deals better than a deluxe 120-count Crayon set (with the sharpener)! [Don't be tardy for these piggybank-bolstering deals]( on everything from laptops and headphones to smartwatches and TVs, and tons more! 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