Amaze and Astound Your Friends and
Family
With These Easy Peasy Tips & Tricks to Try
I read about new trends and styles in webpage and website
design.
One of these new trends is single page websites. So
in keeping up with all the trends, here are what could be three separate Cheatsheet webpages all on one webpage.
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Topic 1:
Adobe Acrobat and Reader Update
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Topic 2: Supercharge Windows Explorer
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Topic 3:
Improve the Image Quality of All Your Pics with a Couple of Clicks
1. Changes to Adobe Reader Update
Procedures
There were a formidable number of Updates released along with the usual Patch Tuesday rituals the second week of September. Among those non-Microsoft apps to update is Adobe Acrobat and/or Reader.
What follows is a revision of the post of 02/06/2022 that offered some tips for a manual update of Adobe Acrobat and Reader.
Adobe has merged the all if its menu options into one drop down menu, ala Office and Chrome.
1. In the top left corner is a control with 4 parallel
lines. Click the line control to open the drop down menu.
2.
Scroll Down to Help. Mouse Over Help.
3.
Another drop down menu opens.
4. Scroll Down to Check for
Updates. Click Check for Updates.
When the update process begins, close Adobe Acrobat or Reader. The update process will finish itself.
2. Supercharge Windows File Explorer
There is a "bug" sorta in Windows Explorer File Manager that slows both
the speed file access and dramatically decreases the speed of searching
for a file. Fortunately, there is an easy peasy fix for the bug.
For this quick fix to work, you must have Task Manager open.
You can review Task Manager here.
The secret is to OPEN WINDOWS EXPLORER.
It's the Yellow File
Folder Icon on the Taskbar.
Once Windows Explorer is open, locate the "F11" Key on
the Keyboard Top Row.
You may need to push a "Fn key"
to access F11 full screen.
Place File Explorer in Full Screen.
When in Full Screen Mode there will be no Toolbar or Tabs shown.
Then push
F11 to exit Full Screen. Close File Explorer and Task
Manager.
Open File Explorer back up. Try to search for a file.
The
improvement in speed is immediately noticeable, at least to me.
And I'm a cynic.
Thanks to PC World for this tip.
Windows File Explorer with Tool Bar and Tab
Full Screen View with NO Tool Bar and No Tab
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3. Improve the Image Quality of All Your Pics with a Couple of Clicks. On May 24, 2023, I posted an article about how I use Microsoft Photos to increase the image quality of resized images using the Resize Image function in Microsoft Photos. The Resize Image function of MS Photos can be used to enhance the quality of any image file, whether you resize or not. Below are two copies of the same image.
First is the image as it was ultimately saved as a JPG
file using the Snipping Tool. Below that is the same image
at the same size, just increased image quality using MS Photos.
2. Enhance JPG file is
below. Size on disc is 669kb. 2X Original
Size before Enchantment.
Simple Technique
Step 1 Below: .
Simple Technique
Step 2.
Save your enhanced
file with the same name with some
separate defining clue.
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Gerald Reiff