what are some cheap/lazy pc lifehacks which improved your pc ux? something like a long headphone cables or specific shortcots

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  • On@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    @piezzo Autohotkey, just to remap your keys or shortcuts to automating windows functions. It’s very powerful. I use it to open applications, switch windows, run commands on the command line.

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    1 year ago

    Ctrl+shift+esc brings up the task manager without having to go through ctrl alt del.

    Shift+esc brings up Firefox’s internal task manager.

    Win+L locks your pc without going through menus.

  • falkerie71@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    If you haven’t already, Powertoys is a pretty useful tool. Some of the utilities I use a lot are Powertoys run, image resizer, color picker, and occasionally PowerRename. Paste as plain text and Text extractor are relatively new additions I probably would use more going forward.
    And although it now also has Peek to preview files for the file explorer, I still prefer to use Quicklook for that.

  • Honeybee@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Mini shelf for headphones that clamps to the side of my desk. Wireless charging stand that trickle charges my phone to nearly full during the day. I rarely use the cable for charging and this has the benefit of being better for the battery slow charging. I also have an alarm go off at 80% full to take off the stand. Again to save battery health. Setup WOL so I can wake my PC up from afar so its ready by the time I get to it.

    Thats my quick list that aren’t OS specific.

    • piezzo@kbin.socialOP
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      1 year ago

      @Honeybee i tried to set up WOL several times, but i always failed. idk why because theoretically everything is setup correctly. But anyways, nice inputs!