Hacks for your PC or Mac… of course, we mean of the good kind

Each week, Cream will be adding to its computer hat tricks. (See what we did there?). Here’s four to get you started in cleaning up your tech situation.

Lose the horizontal rectangle for a wallpaper: go square!

The next time you go to change your PC or Mac monitor’s wallpaper, go for a square image instead. The graphic leaves block colour space on the sides for all those fiddly files on your desktop. It makes it a little easier to spot what’s what!

Bring back that tab you accidentally closed but desperately needed



If you close a tab by mistake on a PC, don’t start shouting obsenities at the screen. You can bring it back by simply pressing Ctrl + Shift + T and amaznigly what you were working on will reappear. If you’re on a Mac, you can press Command + Shift + T to retrieve a closed tab.



Find your Wi-Fi password in a snip

If you forgot your Wi-Fi password, Windows makes it easy to retrieve. Go to Network and Sharing Centre and right-click on the Wi-Fi network connection icon > Wireless Properties. Under the Security tab, you should see a password box with dots in it. Just click the Show Characters box to see the password appear in plain text.

Undo anywhere with this simple keyboard shortcut

You can undo just about any action in a Windows operating system. Pressing Ctrl + Z will undo anything you have just typed. Additionally, you can redo anything you undid by pressing Ctrl + Y.

 

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