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11 years of Direct IT Support and year 1 of Cox Digital

Today marks 10 years of IT services provided by Direct IT Support!

Might sound boring but the calculator built into windows has a lot more functions than you might think

Windows 10 calculator is amazing The calculator in Windows 10 is so much more than a simple calculator! It has a date calculator and a boat load of convertors. --Full list as of June 2020-- ...

Searching for files, programs and settings is super simple and super quick in Windows 10

How to quickly find files, programs and settings from anywhere in Windows 10 Don't sit there trying to find that file in your highly 'organised' filing system, search for it and have it open in seconds. Did you know you can search dir...

Need to make stuff bigger?

Easy way to enlarge text and make everything on your screen bigger - Windows 10 Scaling Increase the size of everything in Windows 10. Great if you find things are a bit too small, like text hard to read or icons hard to see.

Ever wondered how to type smiley faces on your PC?

How to type Emoji, Kaomoji & Special Characters in Windows 10 Windows 10 has a fantastic feature that lets you easily type emoji's / emoticons, Kaomoji and special characters with a simple onscreen dialog. Remember this...

Latest tutorial showing you how to make use of copy & paste with clipboard history.
This is great if you ever want to copy multiple things at one go or reference old copies.

How to copy more than 1 thing at a time in Windows 10: Clipboard History and using Copy Cut Paste Windows 10 has a great feature called Clipboard History / Shared Clipboard. This allows you to copy multiple separate objects (text, pictures etc) and reuse ...

Hi everyone!
I've started creating some short and simple tutorials to help PC users get the most out of their system.
Here is the first of them, How to show your desktop with a single click.
More on my YouTube channel Simple PC - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNjIkecAkUGatOe-_mHvHMA

Minimise all windows and programs (Show Desktop) - Windows 10 Tips Windows 10 Tip - Minimise all your open programs / apps and windows with a single click. Show desktop for quick access to icons. Keyboard shortcut "Win + D"

Windows 7 will stop receiving security updates on 14th January 2020 but you can still upgrade to Windows 10 free of charge with this tool -

Download Windows 10 To get started, you will first need to have a licence to install Windows 10. You can then download and run the media creation tool. For more information on how to use the tool, see the instructions below.

Microsoft won't phone you if you have a problem.
Neither will BT / Sky / TalkTalk etc.
Hang Up!