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Sep 24, 2026

Paul ThurrottHOST
8:54
Um, you can see what the, um, uh, keyboard shortcut is.
Paul ThurrottHOST
8:59
So you activate it Windows key plus Alt plus U. Um, when you do it, what it does is it makes the mouse have kind of a little...
Paul ThurrottHOST
9:07
You can kind of see it.
Paul ThurrottHOST
9:08
So this is like if you're capturing the screen for some reason, maybe you're giving a presentation, you want them to be able to, uh, you know, highlight.
Paul ThurrottHOST
9:18
You can turn it on.
Paul ThurrottHOST
9:19
So I believe this...
Paul ThurrottHOST
9:21
Is this on? How do I find out? So Windows key plus Alt plus U.
Paul ThurrottHOST
9:26
And now I'm trying to see if I can, uh, make it through something.
Paul ThurrottHOST
9:29
Um, you can see what the, um, uh, keyboard shortcut is.
Paul ThurrottHOST
9:34
So you activate it Windows key plus Alt plus U. Um, when you do it, what it does is it makes the mouse have kind of a little...
Paul ThurrottHOST
9:43
You can kind of see it.
Paul ThurrottHOST
9:43
So this is like if you're capturing the screen for some reason, maybe you're giving a presentation, you want them to be able to, uh, you know, highlight, you want to be able to highlight the mouse and see it like a little more easily, you can turn it on.
Paul ThurrottHOST
9:54
So I believe this is on.
Paul ThurrottHOST
9:57
How do I find out? So Windows key plus Alt plus U.
Paul ThurrottHOST
10:01
And now I'm trying to see if I can, uh, make it through something.
Paul ThurrottHOST
10:04
Wonder...
Paul ThurrottHOST
8:54
You can see what the... keyboard shortcut it.
Paul ThurrottHOST
8:59
So you activate it, Windows key plus alt plus U.
Paul ThurrottHOST
9:03
When you do it, what it does is it makes the mouse have kind of a little, you can kind of see it.
Paul ThurrottHOST
9:08
So this is like if you're capturing the screen for some reason, maybe you're giving a presentation, you want them to be able to you know, highlight, you want to be able to highlight the mouse and see it like a little more easily.
Paul ThurrottHOST
9:18
You can turn it on.
Paul ThurrottHOST
9:19
So I believe this is on.
Paul ThurrottHOST
9:21
How do I find out? So Windows key plus alt plus U.
Paul ThurrottHOST
9:26
And now I'm trying to see if I can make it do something.
Leo LaporteHOST
48:14
Ooh, I like that.
Paul ThurrottHOST
48:14
So instead of doing like Windows key or, um, Control-S- V, you do Windows key V, and then it saves that information.
Paul ThurrottHOST
48:21
There's this, all kinds of limitations to that, uh, thing.
Paul ThurrottHOST
48:24
Uh, you know, like if you have a, uh, a graphic, uh, that you're gonna put into the clipboard or a graphic or a file or whatever, it can only be a certain size.

27 MINS LATER

Paul ThurrottHOST
75:25
It keeps saying no, but it keeps saying yes.
Leo LaporteHOST
75:26
[laughs]
Paul ThurrottHOST
75:27
Um, it's, uh, you know, if you have a Copilot+ PC, you can hold down the Windows key and then click anywhere on the screen, and you get this thing where it'll tell you what that thing is, right?
Leo LaporteHOST
75:36
Oh, that's nice.
Paul ThurrottHOST
48:10
But then you can also enable a clipboard history feature.
Paul ThurrottHOST
48:14
So instead of doing Windows Key or Control V, you do Windows Key V.
Paul ThurrottHOST
48:19
And then it saves...
Paul ThurrottHOST
48:21
That information, there's all kinds of limitations to that thing.

27 MINS LATER

Paul ThurrottHOST
75:24
Yeah.
Leo LaporteHOST
75:25
I keep saying no, but I keep saying, yeah.
Paul ThurrottHOST
75:27
Um, it's, uh, you know, if you have a copilot plus PC, you can hold on the windows key and then click anywhere in the screen and you get this thing where it will tell you what that thing is.
Paul ThurrottHOST
75:36
Right.
Sarah LaneSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
54:55
Sequoia researchers say a new malware as a service framework called Expacy copied code from rival service ER traffic and is already delivering malware through compromised WordPress sites.
Sarah LaneSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
55:08
A fake Cloudflare check tells victims in 13 languages to press the Windows button plus R and paste a PowerShell command that was silently copied to the clipboard.
Sarah LaneSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
55:19
The Russian-speaking operator raised the price to $2,000 a month, and researchers had identified about 80 control panel hosts by late August.
Gerald AugerHOST
55:32
All right, so this is just some beef.
KaiHOST
27:43
You didn't reflect anything.
KaiHOST
27:44
No, I did, but the amount of times I accidentally hit the Windows key, because all good Windows are next to each other, and I would hit the Windows key, and then my start home would pop up, and my mouse would disconnect from my game, and then I had to panic click back into the game and be like, fuck.
JaredHOST
28:00
bro i had a hard time with these fights on controller you're playing like that i'm playing
KaiHOST
28:05
i'm playing on hard i've gotten
Adam Patrick MurrayHOST
65:28
That's how I launch applications.
Adam Patrick MurrayHOST
65:30
And that was always the most annoying part was that I would hit the Windows key and start typing it out.
Adam Patrick MurrayHOST
65:35
And number one, there would be a lag of the start menu popping up.
Adam Patrick MurrayHOST
65:39
But then when I started to search photo for Photoshop, it was defaulting to give me Bing results.
Paul NoonanHOST
35:11
definitely has it pasted into a notepad file, and he just brings it out whenever he needs to.
MattHOST
35:17
So fun fact for anybody listening, if you press Windows key period, it will bring up a keyboard of emoji and weird characters.
MattHOST
35:25
Oh, I didn't know that.
MattHOST
35:26
Do it right now.
MattHOST
35:27
Do it right now.
MattHOST
35:28
Press Windows key period.
J.R. RadcliffeHOST
35:30
Do I have to push them at the same time?
MattHOST
35:32
Yeah, hold Windows key and then press period.
Paul NoonanHOST
33:33
He definitely has it pasted into a notepad file, and he just brings it out whenever he needs to.
MattHOST
33:39
So fun fact for anybody listening, if you press Windows key period, it will bring up a keyboard of emoji and weird characters.
MattHOST
33:47
Oh, I didn't know that.
MattHOST
33:48
Do it right now.
MattHOST
33:49
Do it right now.
MattHOST
33:50
Press Windows key period.
J.R. RadcliffeHOST
33:52
Do I have to push them at the same time?
MattHOST
33:54
Yeah, hold Windows key and then press period.

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