Turn on F keys on Lenovo Yoga Laptop

To turn on Legacy F keys (F1 to F12) on your Lenovo Yoga laptop so that they are the default without pressing the FN key first:

1. Shutdown laptop
2. Press the 'reset' (with paper clip) located to the right of the on/off button
3. Select BIOS mode
4. Select Configuration
5. Select Hotkey Mode and disable that
6. Exit by pressing Fn + F10

Restart and you should now be able to use the F keys directly!

Update 3/17/2015--
If you do this you'll notice the Escape key now requires a combo stroke (Fn+Esc) since you've effectively reversed the functions of the top row keys. (Curse you Lenovo.) The only way I found to make this less awkward was to redefine the F1 key as my Esc key too. And the only way I found to do that was through a 3rd party download (KeyTweak) which worked fine. It's really quite ridiculous Lenovo.

Permanently Delete Books from Kindle

Delete books or samples from your content library directly in the cloud here:  Manage Your Content and Devices.

Source: Amazon.com Help: Kindle Samples

How to Disable Windows 8 Touch Screen

1. Right click Start button (lower LH corner Windows logo)
2. Click Device Manager
3. Select Human Interface Devices
4. Find a device with the words 'touch screen'*
5. Right click and select disable

*mine said 'HID-compliant touch screen'

Email Send Link no longer working in Chrome

When I had to upgrade to Win 8, the link to send email from Outlook no longer worked. Go into your default programs, find Outlook (desktop), click:

MAILTO
URL:mailto
Google Chrome