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The keyboard shortcut Windows key+Ctrl+L turns on live captions in Windows 11, showing subtitles on screen for any spoken audio playing on your PC, whether that’s a video (saved or online) or a call.

www.snipca.com/56242 What you need: Windows 10 or 11 It’s been eight months since the last major new version of Files, but this huge update justifies the wait. The brilliant file manager has been rede

It’s tempting to think that deleting a file means it’s gone forever – but that’s not really the case. Data can often be recovered from your hard drive for a long time after it’s supposedly been erased

Q Can you please recommend a program that will help me keep track of my books. I’d like a device I can scan the book with and then load it on to a database. Can it work with graphic novels too? Peter

Back in our Summer 2018 issue we showcased Microsoft Lens, a brilliant free tool for scanning documents using your smartphone or tablet. Sadly the company has recently announced that it’s retiring the

The great thing about online-storage services like Dropbox is that they ‘just work’. Once you’ve installed the software, they get on with the job for years. Unless you run out of space, that is, at wh