Windows 11’s newest features read like an annual awards shortlist for flashy marketing — generative AI in Notepad, a clipboard that brags about being smarter, and Recall quietly recording sessions — while many of the operating system’s foundational pain points remain outstanding and, in some...
Windows hides productivity gold under everyday shortcuts and small utilities — features so useful they change workflows, yet so tucked away many users never find them. The recent roundup highlighting five little-known Windows features shines a light on those shortcuts and tools that deliver...
Clipboard History is the kind of small, steadfast Windows convenience that quietly compounds into real productivity gains — and it deserves more attention than it gets. In everyday use the feature solves a trivial but frequent pain: the one-shot nature of Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V. Enabled once and...
I switched my primary launcher on Windows from Flow Launcher to the Raycast Windows beta and, within hours, it changed how I interact with everyday text, emoji and file searches—what felt like a small tweak to my OS workflow turned into a clear productivity uplift that’s worth a close look...
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Even seasoned Windows users miss powerful built‑in tools until a single moment of discovery changes how they work—this MakeUseOf roundup highlights eight such features that are easy to overlook but which repay the time spent learning them with measurable productivity gains.
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Difficulty: Intermediate | Time Required: 10 minutes
Clipboard History (Win+V) can dramatically speed up copying and pasting by letting you keep a running list of recent clipboard items and — when enabled — sync them across...
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Windows 11 hides a surprising number of high-impact productivity tools beneath its clean new interface — features that can shave minutes off repetitive tasks, reduce interruptions, and make multi-app workflows feel effortless once you know where to look. This piece walks through the most useful...
Windows 11’s keyboard shortcuts are not just a convenience—they’re the backbone of a faster, less distracted daily workflow for power users and knowledge workers alike, and a recent roundup that distilled “73+” essential combinations crystallizes why learning a compact set of keystrokes pays...
Windows 11’s keyboard shortcuts are the single easiest way to turn everyday tasks into near‑instant actions — and learning them now matters more than ever as Windows 10 approaches its end of support and organizations and consumers prepare to migrate.
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Windows 11 hides a surprising number of productivity tools and convenience shortcuts under its polished surface — features that are easy to miss but powerful once discovered. From window management that finally stops the dragging-and-resizing circus to clipboard vaults that remember what you...
Windows ships with capable, polished defaults — but for many real workflows the built‑in apps are the bottleneck: limited features, conservative design choices, and occasional performance problems leave gaps that small, focused third‑party tools fill quickly and cheaply. The six alternatives...
Windows 11’s clipboard history is one of those small features that delivers outsized productivity gains: enable it once, and you can paste from a rolling list of recent copies, pin recurring snippets, sync text across devices, and reclaim content you thought was gone.
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Microsoft is quietly testing a Windows 11 feature that pushes whatever you copy on a PC directly into a linked Android phone’s keyboard — making paste-ready text appear almost instantly in Gboard, Samsung Keyboard and other Android IMEs.
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Microsoft’s Windows 11 is quietly testing a new clipboard pathway that can push whatever you copy on a PC straight into a linked Android phone’s keyboard — and early reports show it will make pasting laptop text onto Galaxy phones (and other Android devices) noticeably easier, faster, and...
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Microsoft appears to be testing a native way for Windows 11 to push whatever you copy on a PC straight into a linked Android phone’s clipboard — a near‑instant, keyboard‑friendly transfer surfaced in Insider preview builds as an “Access PC’s clipboard” toggle that leverages the Link to Windows...
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Microsoft is quietly testing a native Windows 11 clipboard bridge that can push what you copy on a PC straight into a linked Android phone’s keyboard — and the changes could finally make cross‑device copy/paste fast, reliable and keyboard‑agnostic for millions of users.
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Microsoft is quietly testing a native way for Windows 11 to push items copied on a PC directly into a linked Android phone’s clipboard — and early Insider builds show that the flow works with Gboard and other third‑party keyboards without requiring Microsoft SwiftKey.
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Microsoft has quietly started testing a native way for Windows 11 to push what you copy on a PC straight into a linked Android phone’s clipboard, surfaced in Insider (Dev) builds as an “Access PC’s clipboard” toggle that delivers PC copy events into Android keyboards such as Gboard and Samsung...
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Microsoft has quietly added a native way for Windows 11 to push what you copy on a PC straight into a linked Android phone’s clipboard — a low-latency, keyboard‑friendly clipboard sync that significantly reduces friction when moving text between desktop and mobile, while leaving iPhone users...
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