I've been messing around on PC since the Counterstrike days in highschool. For gaming i never owned a console, was always into custom PC. I always enjoy learning new things regarding research, new hardware.
On GAW I have learned how to archive, meme, scrutinize more strictly and find better primary sources among many other things. I would like to learn more from my brethren here.
I will share a few. Keyboard shortcut basics:
https://prabidhi.info/en/keyboard-computer-shortcut-keys/
Clear cache/cookies manually:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/search?query=clear%20cache
We are all thirsty for knowledge!
Or just install Windows in a virtual machine and use it for 180 days (that's the limit you can use until Windows starts complaining that you need to activate it) then delete and install.
No need to install a bootleg version.
Or just don't activate. Yes you won't be able to use some of the services and drivers but if you are just doing some simple stuff then I doubt drivers/services may be needed for whatever you're doing.
I still prefer to bootleg just because default windows comes extremely bloated and you can find bootlegs that have all the extra shit removed along with no activation. I wouldn't do anything sensitive on it and always in a VM.
True, that's a good point. Didn't factor that one in. Totally forgot all about my friend who used this program to remove a lot of stupid junk from Windows so they can just "vanilla" install Windows on our test bench.