Windows 10 Tricks 2020: Hey, what’s up guys I’m Sarvesh Chandra and for months I’ve been searching in my computer for 10 cool hidden Windows features you might not know about. Some of these I’ve talked about before, and others even I didn’t know about until recently. Now, these are all in Windows 10 at least, but many will also be in the earlier version. let’s go.



                                                     Top 10 Windows 10 Tricks 2020


Number 1. The “Secret” Start Menu.

Now it’s not exactly a secret, but somehow I didn’t know about this one until a few days ago.

Everyone knows that ever since Windows 8, the start menu sucks and is hard to navigate, and usually takes a while to get to where you want. But, if you right-click on the Start Menu button, it brings up a different context menu with lots of quick access shortcuts. You can go directly to the task manager, command prompt, or command prompt as admin, device manager, network connections, and even the control panel. No, not the new stupid “Windows Settings” window, but the good old familiar control panel we’ve known since Windows XP. Now you could get to all these without this secret start menu by searching or creating your own shortcut, but with this, it’s all one click away.



Number two, Storage Manager.




which I believe is Windows 10 only. For this one you have to go to the “Windows Settings” the window through the start menu, then click the Storage tab. This shows you some basic info about all your Drives, but if you click on one of these, you can get some interesting data. It will show you which types of files are taking up how much space, so you can get a better idea of where all your free space went, and if you click on one of these again, it will show you specifically what is taking up the most space. You can also see system files like virtual memory, the Hibernation file, and system restore points or even temporary files. Not a bad place to start if you’re running low on space.


Number three, the so-called “God Mode” menu.


This one has been around since Vista but still neat. This is basically a list of shortcuts to almost every setting menu in Windows. To get to it, you create a new folder anywhere and then rename it to the following string. Now, most of the time you see instructions that say to rename it GodMode, period, and then all those characters, but really you can replace “GodMode” with anything you want, as long as the rest is the same.

God Mode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

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So I will call mine “Everything”. In any case, the icon will change to the same one as Control Panel, and inside you will get a huge list of organized shortcuts to every Windows setting you can imagine. Also, if there’s one of these you need often, you can right-click it and hit Create Shortcut to put a link right on your desktop, so you don’t have to search every time.




Next up, number four, Snipping Tool!
This is probably a lot of you know about but if not, you will like it. Snipping Tool is a built-in Windows program that lets you highlight and screenshot things on the screen. You can get to it just by going to the start menu and searching Snipping Tool, and I have a shortcut for it pinned. To use it, you just hit New, and highlight whatever you want, and then you can draw on it, or just save the screenshot right away. Also, it doesn’t have to just be a rectangle. If you click the drop-down, you can snip a specific window, the entire screen, or even freehand it. So this is definitely something I use all the time, and it saves me from having to screenshot the whole screen and then crop it down like you used to have to do in the XP days. Convenient. Moving on,

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Number Five is Sticky Notes.

This one is simple so I won’t spend much time on it. It’s another built in the app you can find by searching or looking in the programs list, and it’s just a way to write notes and stick them on your desktop. It’s basic, the only real options are to change the size and color of the notes, but not the font or text size. But if you’re on a tablet, you can use Windows Ink to handwrite on them. However one cool feature is if you enable “insights” by clicking the three dots at the top, then the gear. With insights, it will look at the content of the notes, and use Cortana to show more info based on context. Like if you type what looks like a reminder, it can let you make an actual reminder. Or if you type in a stock symbol, it will show you info about that, and much other stuff.





Ok, Number Six, Windows Remote Help.


Here’s another simple one, and the idea is it makes it easy to either get help or give help to someone remotely. To get to it, search for “Remote Help” in the start menu, and depending on your version of windows you might see something different, but here we’ll click “Invite someone to connect to your PC to help, or offer to help”. Then the next window you choose whether you’re the one that needs help or not, and it guides you through it. You can connect a few ways, including emailing someone a file, manually typing in the IP address, or using “Easy “Connect” if it works. Then you just control the person’s desktop and do whatever you got to do, simple.



Number Seven, another feature for fixing your computer, the “Problem Steps Recorder”.

You can get to this by searching “Steps Recorder” and it should bring up a small and very simple window bar. The point of the steps recorder is the two-fold. First, if you are having a problem with your computer like it’s showing some error or something, you can record exactly what you’re doing to reproduce the problem. After you start and finish the recording, it will generate a page with screenshots and the description of what you did, such as what you clicked on at what time, that sort of thing. So, for example, if you’re helping someone, and all they say is “it’s not working” without describing the problem, you can have them do this to figure out what they’re talking about. Now the other use for this is if you need to show someone what they need to do to fix a problem. Sometimes it's difficult to walk someone through what they need to do, so with this, you can just do it yourself and send them the file to show them. It makes things a lot easier.

Next Number Eight, Sound Recorder, or Voice recorder depending on your Windows version.


This one is DEAD simple. Just search Voice Recorder in the start menu, click it, and it will bring up the most simple program you can imagine. It’s literally just one button. You click it, and it records through your microphone. During recording, though you have a wide selection of options such as pause, unpause, and add the marker, or stop recording. Once you stop recording it saves the file, and while you can’t choose where it goes, you can right-click it and hit Open File Location to find it and move it wherever you want. Or if you click on the recording, it lets you trim the audio, but that’s the extent of the editing you can do. Very simple program, but if you need to make a quick recording for something, not a bad little feature. Coming near the end,


Number Nine is the “Malicious Software Removal Tool”.


You can get to it by searching for the whole name, or just typing in “MRT” and hitting enter. This one is a kind of interesting because unlike the name might suggest, this isn’t a full-fledged antivirus program. Its purpose is to search and scan for the most widespread viruses for Windows and is periodically updated through Windows Update. As the program will tell you, I do not mean it to replace your regular antivirus, and it doesn’t do automatic scheduled scans. It only runs when you manually run it. It’s definitely best used alongside your current antivirus, and I’d say it’s a good starting point if you suspect you have a virus. If it is one of the common ones detected by the tool, this is an easy way to get rid of it quickly.

So if you don’t have an antivirus program which you should! this is just another thing you can try. However, I would think any decent antivirus could already handle anything this tool does, but who knows.


Number 10, a tool that you hopefully never have to use, the Windows Memory Diagnostic program.


Now, wait, before you run this, keep in mind it will try to restart your computer if you click the wrong thing, so pay attention. To get to it you can search for “Memory Diagnostic” and click on it. But again, watch out because the first option is to “Restart Now” which you probably don’t want to do. The tool is run outside of Windows when your computer boots, so your computer needs to restart to use it. Once you do, it will check your computer’s memory, RAM for any issues you may be having. And the reason I said I hope you never need it is because if your memory has issues, probably the only solution is to buy new RAM since it’s a hardware issue.


And if you have a bad stick of memory, it can manifest itself in many strange ways that might not even suggest it’s a memory issue at all. It’s not like you’d get an error message saying “Memory Error”. Instead, you might randomly start noticing a lot of your files getting corrupted, or random restarts and blue screens, or even bizarre graphics problems in video games, like this screenshot I took years ago that resulted from a bad stick of memory. You can see objects in the games kept doing THAT, and who would’ve thought it was the RAM. So next time you have weird computer issues, your memory is something to check with that tool.




So, there you have it. Ten features in Windows that you rarely hear about. I know some of you out there probably knew many of these, but hopefully, you at least learned about one or two things.