How's it going guys, I'm ThioJoe and today, I've got seven cool tips and tricks and features
for Windows that are pretty hidden, and you might not know about them now these aren't major features
but that also means that they don't really get talked about that often, but they're still pretty useful
and you might not know about these already so they're pretty cool. Nonetheless so without further ado
Why don't we just jump right in I've got about seven of these and hope you'll enjoy them starting off.
We have one that not many people would need that often, but when you do need it
You'll be glad the feature is there and it's called extract audio stream you may not know this but sometimes when you need to
take audio out of a video you might think that you need to go into a video editor and
Delete the video and save it as an mp3 or something
But you don't need to do that at all most of the times in Windows 10 at least and previous versions
You could actually just right-click on a video file and click on extract audio stream
And it will literally then just separate out the audio file out of the video, and then you have that right there
You don't have to do any editing or anything like that and also if you have a video file that has multiple
Audio streams like maybe you're recording a video game, and you record one stream
Which is the computer sound and then another stream from a microphone?
It should separate those out individually, so you'll get multiple audio files out of that when you do it now
This feature can sort of be strange
It doesn't always work on every single type of video file some people say it doesn't show up
But it does I know work ever since Windows 7. So it's at least worth a try alright next up
This feature is really small, but also pretty useful
And it's the ability to rotate an image just by right-clicking on it
Now I used to think that if I wanted to rotate an image
I'd open up in a Windows photo app and click the edit button and hit the rotate button and save it
but no you literally just have to right-click it in Windows Explorer and hit rotate left or
Rotate right and it will rotate that picture if for example you took it on your phone
And it was the wrong way
Then you can just fix it like that and apparently this feature was around since Windows XP which is pretty embarrassing
Because I only found out about it recently and maybe you just found out about it alright next up number three
I believe this one is only available since Windows 10, but it's the ability to print a file as a PDF
So if you ever had to convert an image or convert a document or something and you wanted to save it as a PDF
Well you wanted to thought you had to get Adobe
Acrobat or something like that but know you can actually just go into the print dialog
Hit file print and then one of the options under as a printer
It'll be print as a PDF
And then it'll just print as a PDF next up this feature has to do with media streaming between windows computers
And I know it's in Windows 10
But there might be a similar one in previous versions as well and to access it you simply go into the Start menu and search
media streaming options
And then it will allow you to enable this feature and what it does is lets you actually just stream media
Whether it's music or video files between different computers or at least lets those computers
access your computer to stream the files if
You have software running that can interact with it so for example you might have a TV with some media software on there
That is able to go out and see what computers are offering to stream
and then if you turn that on then those media files on your computer should be accessible from your TV or
Possibly any other computer that is also having that enabled this isn't something that I use very often
I didn't actually know it was available and usually that I use other software like Plex to stream
but if you do a lot of video streaming or you are looking for an easy way to do it this might be something to
Look into ok moving on this one is definitely really useful if you ever need to help someone with their computer now
This is only available I believe in Windows 10 though there might be similar features in previous versions
But it might be a little bit different
And this is called quick
Assist and you can access it simply by going to the Start menu in searching for quick assist
And then it will give you the option it'll pop up a window and say do you want to give assistance or get assistance and?
When you do this it will give a code that you can give to someone and when they type it in then they will allow
You to have remote access to their computer
So you can do whatever you need to fix it and likewise you can also receive access using the same code
So if you need help from someone else you can do that of course you do want to be careful don't give access to someone
You don't know like some random person on the internet who claims to be able to help make sure it's someone
You know in real life who you can trust so if they purposefully screw some up. You can go get them
I'm just kidding, but actually in any case
I'm sure a lot of you will find this useful up next this next feature is kind of another way to get help and you
Access it by going into the Start menu and literally searching get help and in this way you can actually
Access a real live person who works for Microsoft and gives support
So you might not have known this that Windows 10 at least does have customer support
Built right into Windows now when you first go to this it will just give you a robot to talk to and chat with but
It does give you the option to request to talk to a real person now
I can't guarantee the quality of these support representatives
But maybe it allows you to even escalate and I believe it'll even possibly give you the ability to give them your phone number
So they can call you and this should be a little bit more reputable than I don't know some random
Forum online or something like that so at least if you need some basic help with Windows. It's probably better than nothing although
I'm sure if it's something complicated or related to a specific program. There's probably not much
They can do but at least it's a resource you have now all right
Finally this one is definitely going to be useful to some of you, and it's actually kind of like a multi-part
There's a few features in one and that is the ability to access a more advanced right-click menu
You might not known this now if you right-click on something and Windows Explorer obviously, you know that the context menu comes up
But there are actually more hidden options you can access by holding shift
and
then
right-clicking on something in Explorer it might not be that obvious because there's only a couple extra that appear and it will depend on whether
You're clicking on a file or a folder
But for example if you right-click and hold shift while clicking in a folder
You'll now have the option to open command prompt here
And that way when you it'll open the command prompt window with that current location already entered
so you don't have to open up command prompt and
Change the directory and all that nonsense you can just open it right there way quicker also when you do this onto something
You'll get a new option to copy as path so obviously if you right click and copy something it'll copy the file
But maybe if you are using a command and the command prompt and you need to type in the location of the file
Instead of typing it out
Manually you can hold shift right click it copy the path and just paste it into command prompt
And then you don't have to worry about it
also If you have multiple users on a computer
and you want to run a
Specific program as a different user for some reason if you hold shift and right click on a program
It'll give you the option to run as a different user so this is kind of similar to the run as administrator option except
You're not running as an administrator. You're running as any other user doesn't have to be an admin
It could be a standard user and then the final new option is also pretty interesting
And that's the ability to right-click either a file or a program or even a folder
And it'll give you the option to open in new
Process now this one takes a little bit of explanation say you go to open some file
And then you go to open another type of the same file in the same program
Then it might open that file using the same instance of that software
It's run once but open both files
But maybe if for some reason like the program is really unstable and you don't want to risk it
Crashing the one program while you're opening another file
You can actually open two separate instances of that program with the two separate files, so this could be useful
I don't know if you want to run Google Chrome and you want to have one of them doing something important
And then browsing on another one so that if one crashes it's still isolated
It's a good way to isolate the two separate programs running. Maybe different files if you need to do that
I'm sure that most of you are never going to need to do that
But I'm sure there's a couple of you that are thinking
This is going to be the greatest new feature you never know about so yeah, that's about it
Those are just a few features seven or ten depending on how that last one
And I'm sure that there were at least a few that you did not know about
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