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How To Customize Your Mouse Actions In Windows 10

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Mouse or the trackpad whatever we use to navigate the cursor over the computer screen which is one of the very important actions, the main focus will be definitely on the cursor and its actions. Not many of us know the different ways of customizing the cursor actions, so we thought of present you some really simple and easy customizations that you can try.  So, learn how to customize your mouse actions down here.

Some Simple Mouse Settings

You can make use of the shortcut Windows + I to open the settings menu and then navigate to devices, then tap on the mouse. There you can find a few options for some of your basic mouse actions, you can choose your primary button, the mouse wheel actions, and few more which you can customize according to your wish.

Advanced Settings

In the earlier menu settings window, right at the bottom, you will find the advanced option which you can click to access further custom settings where you can change the speed of the cursor and the double click speed.

You have also got a CheckLock feature that allows you to do the drag and drop actions without actually holding the mouse button and you can just click the primary button by placing the cursor on the file or folder and then clicking for one time when you wish to release it. So, enable this CheckLock option in your mouse’s advanced options and get ready to enjoy this feature.

Customize Pointer And Pointer Options, Mouse Actions

The mouse options even allow the users to custom their mouse pointer and pointer options, if you feel bored of the same pointer symbol, you can get a new one and even customize it with many other symbols from the internet.

In the mouse properties window, click on pointers tab where you can find these options which you can customize.

In the same way, you will also find various another tab called wheel, where you can customize and set up vertical scrolling if you find a need for it.

So, do try these things out and use your mouse options to the fullest.

How To Save Screenshots To Dropbox Directly

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Dropbox is one of the popular and easy to use file sharing and file saving tools that are available for free. Besides Google Drive and One Drive, this sharing and online data saving tool is also equally popular. It is widely used by people.

If you are using a Windows PC and take screenshots, and work with screenshots a lot, then this tip and simple trick that we are going to tell will be very helpful to you.

This actually is a setting that is available with the Dropbox application by default. You don’t have to install any other third-party tools or applications for this purpose.

Come out of the hassles of uploading the screenshots that you take on your PC if you ever wish to share them with your near and dear ones, you just set this thing up and you are all done.

For this purpose, you must be having the Dropbox app installed on your device. Having this application installed on your device is a must needed thing that you need to follow for sure.

If you have the application installed on your device already, then just open the application and click on the gear icon and then from the menu select Preferences. Click on Import option there. Then make sure the checkbox next to the option share screenshots using Dropbox is checked.

Or if you just installed it and would like to get this feature, then when you capture a screenshot. You will notice an on-screen prompt window asking you whether you wish to upload your future screenshots or not. Choose to save screenshots option. That is it,  you are done with the setup.

Enjoy this auto-upload feature and synchronize them across devices and even share them with your dear ones and family members when you have got something to share.

How To Make Any App Work For Voice Commands In Android

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Voice commands make life easy and interesting. But not every app supports and accepts voice commands as input. There is a way to make any keyboard responsive app to recognize the voice commands. This can be done easily using the Google assistant on your Android device.

Using Google Assistant

Android devices come with a built-in powerhouse voice command search known as the Google assistant. You can start it by just simply long pressing the Home button on your device. Then you can observe a small pop-up window appear on the screen. Just tap on the tray icon in the top right corner of the window. You will then be headed to the explore section of the Google assistant that lets you dig into the full capabilities of Google assistant.

Then you can change the settings of the app accordingly and make it work to its full capability and make the best use of it. You can change your preferences in your My day there. Also simply add things to your shopping list easily as Google assistant has got an integrated shopping list. You can simply say hey Google add ….. to my shopping list. In the same way, you can also reach Google for various things to know about your events in your calendar to plan things accordingly.

Voice Commands For Other Apps

Like ways, you can even use this voice commands feature for dictating text, messages, and emails in various applications that you might be using the Evernote, Messenger, Email apps. All you need to do is just enable the voice commands feature and then after opening the particular application, you just need to tap on the microphone icon that appears on the keyboard and start dictating. That is it, it will then begin to take your voice and then make it into text thus making your task really simple.

Enabling Google lens in Google Photos on any Android device

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Pixel devices are very much unique in software as they are with their hardware. It is the combination of both these things makes the device perfect. Pixel 2 launcher and Google lens are exclusive to these phones and we have earlier learned how to get pixel 2 like launcher on any device. And now in this article, let us learn how to get Google lens on your Google photos whatever Android device you have.

One thing you must not before heading through this process is that you can do this process in rooted devices only.

  • You must first have to download the Google Lens  flashable zip file that is made by an XDA developer
  • Once downloaded, then you need to boot your file in recovery mode you can find how you can boot your device in recovery mode for your particular device by searching online
  • On recovery mode, just head to the download directory and locate the Google installer zip file and tap on install image, confirm to flash
  • Then your device will flash the file and after the flashing is completed you click on reboot system option to reboot your device
  • After your device is rebooted, just open the Google photos app and when you tap on any photo, you can see the Google lens icon in the menu, tap on it and get started
  • Now for every photo you open, you will have this icon which lets you identify what is in the picture

So, do try this application where you will have a lot of fun using. Google Lens can be, it’s still quite limited in what it can do before it points you to another app. You might not have to lean on those other apps quite so often n the near future. In the wake of an initial discovery earlier in April, the 9to5Google team has spotted evidence that Lens could soon include a host of “filters” aimed at fulfilling specific augmented reality tasks. A “translate” filter, for instance, might auto-detect one language and offer to convert it to another instead of simply copying text and asking to launch Google Translate.

How To Turn Off Laptop Screen With Power Button

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The power button in Windows 10 is pretty powerful. Many of us might be using it just for powering on and off as we are not aware of the other things that the physical power button has to offer us. There is a little handy feature available in the Windows 10 that allows the users to turn off laptop screen by just clicking on the physical power button that you have. Check it out here

You need to define the power button in the power options for this.

Just head to the power options, you can go to the power options by simply right-clicking the battery icon on your system tray or you can also go there by going to the control panel.

Then inside the power options, just choose what the power buttons do.

Then under the define power buttons and turn on password protection, you will see some options for power and sleep buttons and lid settings.

Then here you need to set the first option which says when I press the power button, choose to turn off display from the drop-down menu.

That is it, it is that simple to use the regular power button for yourself and to make it useful for you. You can thus turn off laptop screen using your laptop power button.

Other Ways

ScreenOff is a first-of-its-kind 13KB freeware that lets you turn off your Windows laptop monitor screen in a click, without putting it to Sleep. This tool does not use a batch command. It uses a SendMessage Visual Basic command to send the system, the command to turn off the display. Moreover, it is a portable tool that does not require to be installed. Nor does it ask you to download and install any specific .NET Framework version.

Simply download the zip file, extract its contents, move the folder to your Program Folder and pin the shortcut of ScreenOff.exe to your Start Screen or Taskbar.