Never underestimate the importance of really basic computer management.

Don't use the same password for everything. Make it a phrase. Include numbers and symbols. Also, this is important, the task manager can save your hide.

It's Not A Universal Password

"Considering the level of office work required in most corporate America, you'd be surprised by the number of people that don't even have the basic understanding of simple office software."

ahtemsah

"As an IT manager and having dealt with a ton of people. This and their basic inability to operate a computer. Like knowing what your trying to log into. Asking for your Google password to be reset and wondering why it doesn't work for your windows login?!"

Brief_Theory_1778

The What Manager?

"Open the task manager"

XxDalegend27xX

"Or how to use the task manager. Or what "CPU" "Disk" or any of the rest of it even means."

RiotHyena

"We still have plenty of staff for whom the 'CPU' is the big black box under their desk."

"And more than 20 years after the introduction of the iMac, people are still confused by the computer part being in the screen."

CousinDirk

Turns out a lot of computer issues arise in the office setting. While some people were hired to do a job, and you would hope they'd be able to do that job competently, that won't always be the case. Some people find themselves lost when you put a keyboard in front of them.

"CAN YOU HEAR ME?"

"Mute themselves on zoom calls."

vincyhot

"And unmute themselves on zoom calls."

autre_temps

...Disappeared Into The Aether...

"taking screenshot"

Feyru97

"Finding the folder where screenshot saved"

plowableacorn

"Win+shift+s to mark an area to screenshot, I use it several times a day in my job and I've seen people instead press printscreen and then paste the entire image into paint and then select the area they wanted to screenshot into a new image and then save it etc etc"

[usernameredacted]

Be More Precise

"Google effectively. Not just google, but to find any meaningful information from google."

"Let's say you have a computer issue, your monitor is simply came unplugged from your PC."

"Many people might just google "why wont my computer work" or "computer wont turn on". Sure, that may eventually lead you to checking your monitor is plugged in correctly."

"But I bet if you google "pc turns on but no picture" or "pc turns on but no screen/black screen" you're gonna get a helpful answer much, much faster."

"And this goes for any kind of problem that you're googling."

"dishwasher not working" -> "frigidaire model xxxx dishwasher stops after rinse cycle"

"You get the idea. Generally, the more granularity the better."

FranticDisembowel

Even though computers are found in everyday life, there is still a surprisingly large swathe of the population who don't understand them or how they work. What comes as second nature for casual users can feel like foreign, and sometimes scary, skills.

Point. Click.

"I taught a computer course several years ago. I remember the biggest thing for most completely-new computer users was not looking at their hand while moving the mouse, and being terrified of breaking the computer by accidentally closing a window or something. Oh, and knowing whether they should single click or double click - this was a major preoccupation for some."

timmyrey

Two Buttons: Copy. Paste.

"A recent phone conversation I had with my mother:"

Me: You just need to copy and paste it. Let me talk you through it.
Her: There's no point, I can't do it.
Me: It's like two key presses.
Her: It's too complicated.
Me: It'll take 5 seconds. It's easy.
Her: It's easy for you, you're a computer programmer. I don't have qualifications.
Me: So what are you going to do next time you need to copy and paste something?
Her: I'll just put my laptop in the car and drive it over to your house and you can do it for me...

Schwann-Port

I Keep Them All On My Desktop So I Can See Them All

"Basic folder/file structure."

Regulai

"there's more places than just the desktop wut?"

j33205

"Hello, IT. Have you tried turning it off and on again?"

"How to fix 99% of problems - by turning it off and on"

superfankiks

"I have a friend who gets mad that it is my go to for any problem I come across on my computer. Like bro I don't expect it to be fixed off of that, but at least I've checked it off my list."

"And also it works more often than even I expect"

AmishCyborgs

Point. Click. Double click to open. Different passwords.

And, the most important of all, turn it off and on again if something seems iffy.

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