List your favorite shortcuts and tricks when using windows here!!
Here's one to start --
WindowsKey + d = Show Desktop
TRY IT! hehehe
Thats a good one, the other one I use is WindowsKey + L which allows you to switch users
Since I have at times as many as 10 or more windows open at once a nifty little keyboard shortcut that instantly minimizes all open windows:
Ctrl+Esc immediately followed by Alt+M
That's my alltime favorite. I also like Windowskey+E to bring up the Windows Explorer and Windowskey+R to bring up Run. I also use Ctrl+A to select all, Ctrl+C to copy Ctrl+Z to Cut, and Ctrl+V to paste. Very convenient shortcuts when copying code and hypertext links.
Well I don't use too many shortcuts for Windows, my main ones have all been mentioned, well except Alt+F4 to close out the current window.
Hmm, I know a few tricks but they don't come to mind right now... here is one that does.
In Windows XP Professional you can go to Start > Run > gpedit.msc This allows you to edit group policies. Although you can change a lot of settings in here, my favorite thing to do is go under User Configuration and then under Windows Settings, in there is an option for Internet Explorer Maintenance. You can change the title of your internet explorer (who it says it was provided by at the top), you can change the toolbar background or even give it a custom logo in the top right (the thing that moves as the page loads)
Theres more in there, but you can explore
Have you ever been to a site that opens up all the images in a pop-up. Only that pop-up is 1 size and not resizeable so sometimes the images get cut off because these people don't know what they are doing?
Well in a pop-up windows that has the resize property set to false so you can't resize, you can hit F11 twice to be able to resize it depsite the resize property.
Dirty trick yes, but sometimes it's necessary.
know there's fewer people using Win98se nowadays, but I still use it (for now) to a large degree. I always hate seeing that MS logo during boot. To remove it, open MSDOS.SYS in a text editor (Notepad works well - make sure you've nixed the "read only" property or you won't be able to save it). Under the options line add logo=0 or change logo=1(if that's already there) to logo=0. Save. (reset properties to read only" to be on the safe side.
There you have it - no more MS blue screen logo! There is also a way to change the MS logo to one of your own, but I'd have to review my notes at home to remember exactly how.
F6 automatically highlights the URL in the address bar of IE - copy and paste at will.
Here's one to start --
WindowsKey + d = Show Desktop
TRY IT! hehehe
Thats a good one, the other one I use is WindowsKey + L which allows you to switch users
Since I have at times as many as 10 or more windows open at once a nifty little keyboard shortcut that instantly minimizes all open windows:
Ctrl+Esc immediately followed by Alt+M
That's my alltime favorite. I also like Windowskey+E to bring up the Windows Explorer and Windowskey+R to bring up Run. I also use Ctrl+A to select all, Ctrl+C to copy Ctrl+Z to Cut, and Ctrl+V to paste. Very convenient shortcuts when copying code and hypertext links.
Well I don't use too many shortcuts for Windows, my main ones have all been mentioned, well except Alt+F4 to close out the current window.
Hmm, I know a few tricks but they don't come to mind right now... here is one that does.
In Windows XP Professional you can go to Start > Run > gpedit.msc This allows you to edit group policies. Although you can change a lot of settings in here, my favorite thing to do is go under User Configuration and then under Windows Settings, in there is an option for Internet Explorer Maintenance. You can change the title of your internet explorer (who it says it was provided by at the top), you can change the toolbar background or even give it a custom logo in the top right (the thing that moves as the page loads)
Theres more in there, but you can explore
Have you ever been to a site that opens up all the images in a pop-up. Only that pop-up is 1 size and not resizeable so sometimes the images get cut off because these people don't know what they are doing?
Well in a pop-up windows that has the resize property set to false so you can't resize, you can hit F11 twice to be able to resize it depsite the resize property.
Dirty trick yes, but sometimes it's necessary.
know there's fewer people using Win98se nowadays, but I still use it (for now) to a large degree. I always hate seeing that MS logo during boot. To remove it, open MSDOS.SYS in a text editor (Notepad works well - make sure you've nixed the "read only" property or you won't be able to save it). Under the options line add logo=0 or change logo=1(if that's already there) to logo=0. Save. (reset properties to read only" to be on the safe side.
There you have it - no more MS blue screen logo! There is also a way to change the MS logo to one of your own, but I'd have to review my notes at home to remember exactly how.
F6 automatically highlights the URL in the address bar of IE - copy and paste at will.
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