This week's top tips

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(That's what the leaks say, anyway.) But for now, we're still in charge of moving our own desktop windows around — and fixing any problems we might encounter on our PCs. (I don't expect that promised AI transformation to immediately change everything. After all, Microsoft still hasn't managed to move everything from the classic Control Panel to the new Settings app after more than a decade of trying!) This week's reader-submitted tip is a particularly useful one Windows geeks have been using for decades. When a window gets lost, this is a must-know tip for rescuing it. ⌚ 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 ⌨️ Sometimes, a window can vanish off your PC screen — it somehow moves to a strange place off your screen, perhaps to the left or right of what you can see. Getting a lost window back can be quite a puzzle. After all, you can't grab it with your mouse cursor. But there's a way to move a window with just your keyboard — even if it's vanished off your screen and you can't see it. 💻 This works on both Windows 10 and Windows 11. ➜ Windows Intelligence reader Dan H. wrote in with a useful tip for moving windows with your keyboard. First, select the window you want to move — for example, by using Alt+Tab to switch to it. Then, press Alt+Space on your keyboard. You'll see a menu with a variety of options — select "Move" by clicking it, or by using the arrow keys and pressing Enter. (You may also be able to hold down the Shift key and right-click the application's icon on your taskbar to find this menu.) [Select the "Move" option in the menu.] Now, just tap or press and hold the arrow keys to move the window around with your keyboard. Press Enter when you're done. [Moving a window with the arrow keys.] Note: If you don't see this menu after pressing Alt+Space and you see a box in the middle of your screen, that's because you've installed Microsoft PowerToys. The default shortcut for the "PowerToys Run" launcher is Alt+Space. To get around this, you'll need to launch the "PowerToys" application from your Start menu or system tray and either disable PowerToys Run or change its activation shortcut to something else. 📝 Looking for this week's Android Intelligence reader tip? Here it is: It's all about [our readers' favorite home-screen note-taking apps](=). We've got a lot of options to share! 💡 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! 😎 Fix a lot of Windows annoyances: Both Windows 11 and Windows 10 have some seriously annoying features, like a "Widgets" or "News and Interests" pane plastered with often-clickbait news stories, Bing search in the Start menu, advertisements masquerading as notifications, and more clutter. Here's [how to clean up your Windows desktop experience and make it much more pleasant](=). 🖱️ Speed up window-switching on the taskbar: When you have multiple windows open for an application and you click that application's taskbar icon, you'll see a bunch of preview thumbnails. To skip the previews, press and hold the Ctrl key while you click. You'll go straight to the last window you used. Keep hold down the Ctrl key and clicking to switch between available windows. 🎤 Type — and use your PC — with your voice: Type in any app with your voice! On Windows 11, launch the "Voice Access" application from your Start menu to get started. On Windows 10, you can use the similar Voice Typing feature — press Windows+H to launch it. 📖 Save up to 95% on ebooks: Nothing beats diving into a great new book, but why, oh why, can it be so hard to find a book you want to read? [BookBub](=) makes it so that you can spend less time searching and more time reading by sending you personalized ebook recommendations — based on your reading preferences — for up to 95% off. [Subscribe to BookBub for free](=)to start reading your new ebooks on any device. [SPONSORED] 🎧 Shake up your audio ingestion: An interesting app called [Hark](=) will help you find and listen to short, snappy clips from all sorts of podcasts on subjects you love. It's kind of like a magazine editor for the spoken word or a personal mixtape creator for the types of discussions you're bound to find captivating, and it's tons of fun to try. (Note that some readers have reported Hark being unavailable on their devices; the service doesn't make any sorts of geographic or device-specific restrictions apparent, so apologies if it doesn't work for you!) ⏩ Speed up your smartphone typing: You'd never know it from looking, but Google's Gboard Android keyboard has [some powerful advanced options]() for adjusting its shape, size, and placement on your screen. They'll help make your keyboard more specifically suited for your personal style of typing, and they'll each [take you no more than one minute to unearth](). 👀 Let your phone act as your eyes: Microsoft has a wild new Android app called [Seeing AI]() that can read text from your camera's viewfinder out loud, answer questions about the contents of text in a printed page you're pointing your phone at, and even save images of people's faces and then help you recognize them again later. It's technically designed for accessibility purposes, but it could have interesting implications for practically any of us — and it's completely free to use. 💬 Web3 news, translated into plain English: Want to learn about Web3 but sick of pretending to know what “layer 2 cross-chain protocol” is? The team at [Web3 Daily]( is taking all the hullabaloo around Web3 and crypto and sharing it in a way that is easy to understand, hype- and jargon-free, and actually fun to read. Cut through the noise of Web3 news by [subscribing to Web3 Daily with just one click!]( [SPONSORED] --------------------------------------------------------------- What did you think? Was this email worth your time? Did you enjoy reading it? [Thumbs Up]( [Thumbs Down]() Hit the thumbs-up or thumbs-down above to let me know what you think. Thanks as always for reading, and I hope you have an awesome week! Too much email? No worries: You can [opt out of receiving these roundups or unsubscribe entirely here](=). 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