Community Tech Tips

[iamdarkyoshi]

Figured we could start a megathread on various tech tips. If it goes well, I will routinely edit this OP by quoting your posts and putting them in categories.

 

Examples:

 

Thermal Paste
 

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Thermal paste is very easy to remove with Brakleen. It dissolves it and turns it into a liquid, even 15 year old hardened paste.

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Fans

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Fans almost always blow air out of the motor side. They are also usually marked with arrows on the side of the frame.

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LTT Forums

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On android, use hacker's keyboard. It emulates a desktop keyboard, and backspace correctly deletes quotes.

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And you guys can comment below with more tech tips, and when I have the time, I can add them to the OP. I will just quote you and copy the quote to here, so you will get credit

[13CA350]

Never use "Restart" as it never fully turns off your PC. Always turn it completely off and back on

[SLAYR]

Ctrl+C Ctrl+V

 

(It is really suprising how many people don't know this)

 

Also don't force things into slots they weren't designed to go into, like a 6+2 pcie connector into a 4+4 eps port.

[iamdarkyoshi]

If you have a lithium powered device (cell phone, tablet, laptop, etc) and you either do not plan on using it for a while, or you intend to always have it plugged in, drain the battery to 50% and remove it, running it off the charger only. Lithium batteries do not like being fully charged all the time, they are best stored at half charge or so.

[theandrewhead]

5 hours ago, SLAYR said:

don't force things into slots they weren't designed to go into, like a 6+2 pcie connector into a 4+4 eps port.

Austin, LOL

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

6 hours ago, SLAYR said:

Ctrl+C Ctrl+V

 

(It is really suprising how many people don't know this)

 

Also don't force things into slots they weren't designed to go into, like a 6+2 pcie connector into a 4+4 eps port.

They're probably less likely to know about Ctrl+X

[Zangashtu]

Ctrl + A selects everything, great for copying messages or deleting paragraphs

[WereCat]

Pressing POWER ON button on the case on your PC will turn your PC ON.

[LordXenu]

You can fertilize your lawn with used motor oil

 

[iamdarkyoshi]

This isn't working

[cptMayday]

Some hotkeys & tips to speed up every day tasks. 

ctrl + shift + escape: open task manager

windows + e: open windows explorer

windows + d: go to desktop (minimize all)
ctrl + shift + v: paste stuff into the current format (font, size etc)

Some Chrome tips:
- Pin your tabs (right click on a tab and pin them) then use ctrl + a number key to navigate through them. This gets really useful if you pint Gmail to ctrl +1, Slack to ctrl +2, Google Calendar to ctrl +3, etc

- ctrl + tab: cycle through your tabs left to right

- ctrl + shift + tab: cycle through your tabs the other way round 

 

[JMSOG]

If you click your mouse wheel on a link, it opens in a new tab.

 

In addition: you are able to click your mouse wheel.

[Canada EH]

Alt + Space opens file

[Nmistry09]

Plugging a metal fork into a wall outlet will make you 200% faster.

 

NOTE: JUST KIDDING, THAT WOULD KILL YOU... (PLEASE DON'T TRY IT PLEASE)

 

REAL TIP:

 

While watching YouTube videos, pressing;

F will go into fullscreen,

M will mute the sound,  

J will go 10 seconds back,

L will go 10 seconds forward,

K will pause,

Left Arrow will go back 5 seconds,

Right Arrow will go forward 5 seconds,

Up Arrow will make the sound 1 "level" higher,

Down Arrow will make the sound 1 "level" lower,

0 restarts the video,

1 starts the video at the 1/10 mark,

2 starts the video at the 2/10 mark,

3 starts the video at the 3/10 mark,

4 starts the video at the 4/10 mark, and so on.

[Guest]

You can right click on a YouTube video and there should be an option to loop the video. (no need for those 10h music reuploads)

You can also display some stats about the video (but that's for nerds )

[Deimond]

The most unknown secret of the everything is Shift + Ctrl + ESC

[SeraphicWings]

Don't know if this count:

 

Refreshing desktop screen does not make your computer go smoother

[iamdarkyoshi]

34 minutes ago, Deimond said:

The most unknown secret of the everything is Shift + Ctrl + ESC

I've known that since vista's original release...

[Bhav]

Press Alt F4 for free in game currency.

 

I actually managed to get someone on the opposing team to fall for that once.

[minibois]

MB is not the same as Mb.

 

MB = Megabyte

Mb = Megabit

1 MB = 8 Mb

 

If you think your internet speeds are slow, be sure to evaluate that you are comparing the right values with each other (for example, Speedtest.net by default uses Mb, while Steam by default uses MB)

[Bhav]

Most GPU manufacturers are shit at applying thermal paste and apply dollops by ice cream scoop loads.

 

Repasting your GPUs with a rice grain amount of MX4 will make a significant improvement in temps.

[SLAYR]

1 hour ago, Bhav said:

Most GPU manufacturers are shit at applying thermal paste and apply dollops by ice cream scoop loads.

 

Repasting your GPUs with a rice grain amount of MX4 will make a significant improvement in temps.

This is also voids the warranty for a lot of manufacturers except for EVGA, and most gpus don't need new thermal paste unless they are a few years old.

[Bhav]

14 minutes ago, SLAYR said:

This is also voids the warranty for a lot of manufacturers except for EVGA, and most gpus don't need new thermal paste unless they are a few years old.

No it doesnt void the warranty UNLESS there are warranty void stickers on the screws.

[Deimond]

23 hours ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

I've known that since vista's original release...

thats why I wrote it

[antisleep]

For chrome, Ctrl+Shift+N is better than having to erase your history.