Some useful Computer Tricks.

1. Don’t use Ctrl+Alt+Del!

Use control+shift+escape instead! It goes directly to the task manager!

2. Tired of that boring GIF?

Are you feeling really sick of watching that boring GIF go again and again? Worry not! Press Escape to halt animated GIFs that are distracting. Yeah, Graphic designers hate me!

3. A site that has right-click disabled? and you can’t steal stuff?

You have a major project to submit tomorrow and you finally found the site you dreamed of! But It has it’s right-click disabled and you can’t copy stuff from there? Don’t you worry child!

javascript:void(document.oncontextmenu=null)

Putting the following into a favorite/shortcut on the toolbar re-enables browser right click.

4. A simple way to clear your cache?

CTRL + SHIFT + R = Clear cache and refresh the page. Child’s play! Isn’t it?

5. How to access Paywall sites?

Some websites like washingtonpost.com allow you a certain number of free stories per month before you hit a paywall. to continue taking the benefits, just delete the cookies from the site and it will reset your count. Alternatively, you can browse it in incognito mode (Yes, It’s not only for porn!)

6. How to find the website that is dead now?

Many a times, We find a website that is offline and you cannot seem to access it. Copy the URL to archive.org… they often have a preserved copy.

7. Reverse Image search?

Hold S and right click an image to do reverse image search in Chrome.

8. Open a Browser Notepad!

Need a notepad in Chrome or Firefox?

data:text/HTML,%20<html%20contenteditable>

Copy and paste this into the address bar. You’ll open a new tab that you can write in. You can even save it.

9. Disable Facebook’s Autoplay Video option!

We all know the struggles you face every time a video pops up on Facebook and it won’t stop without playing it fully!

Here’s the fix: navigate to facebook.com/settings. On the left side you’ll see ‘video’ – click on it and you’ll be presented with an option to turn off auto-play.

EDIT 1: Thanks for overwhelming response. Such reception from Quoran friends motivate me to add further to this answer and I will do it time to time.

10. Know what Google "knows" about you!

A) History – Here is your entire Google search history.

B) Ads – Here is what Google thinks what your interests are and shows you ads based on these interests.

C) Location History – Here are the places where you used Google to do anything.

D) Takeout – Export every information Google knows about you.

E) Dashboard – An activity page that tells you about all the Google services you are using.

F) YouTube search history – YouTube saves all of your searches too.

G) Permissions – You can see here what permissions you gave to the extensions and sites you use.

11. Lazy to write whole website name!

Whatever you type in URL bar can be prefixed and suffixed by www. and .com by pressing Ctrl+Enter So if you want to open website named www (dot) ABC (dot) com, then just type ABC and hit Ctrl+Enter. (For illustration, I first wrote XXX instead of ABC, then I realise that it will redirect you to some other website!!! and you will end up with something else rather than reading answers here on Quora. xD)

12. Going Incognito Often!

Press Ctrl+Shift+N to open up Incognito window quickly on Chrome browser.