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Post June 20th, 2003, 7:42 pm

At times you may have seen an ad that takes up your entire screen and there is no way out of it. Eventually you are forced to do a Ctrl-Alt-Del and shut the browser down or use a popup killer to prevent them in the first place. I just found out a new trick today that I was not aware of.

By pressing Alt-F4 you can close down any full screen window immediately. So far its been working great for me, not sure if it works for all circumstances though.
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Post June 20th, 2003, 7:42 pm

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Post June 20th, 2003, 7:55 pm

ya it works. it closed ozzu on me (SOB)
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Post June 20th, 2003, 9:27 pm

I have lot's of keyboard shortcuts for Win 9x (most of which work on 2000 and XP)

My favorite is CTRL + ESC followed immediately by Alt + M -- minimizes all open windows instantly in all Windose OS's I've used.
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Post June 20th, 2003, 9:29 pm

I like alt+tab use it alot.
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Post June 20th, 2003, 9:29 pm

ooo I'm a student now :-D
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Post June 22nd, 2003, 10:18 am

Bigwebmaster wrote:
At times you may have seen an ad that takes up your entire screen and there is no way out of it. Eventually you are forced to do a Ctrl-Alt-Del and shut the browser down or use a popup killer to prevent them in the first place. I just found out a new trick today that I was not aware of.

By pressing Alt-F4 you can close down any full screen window immediately. So far its been working great for me, not sure if it works for all circumstances though.

*in a valley-girl voice*

pssh! that trick is like, so-90's!


hehe i use that a lot myself. Been a trick-of-the-trade for awhile now. I
figured it out with some of these full-screen flash sites I visit.
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Post July 1st, 2003, 6:23 pm

Alt+Tab and Alt+F4 are basic keyboard shortcuts; cm'on guys. :D
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Post July 1st, 2003, 8:24 pm

shhhhh some of us are still learning that alt-tab is also multi-platform :)
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Post July 1st, 2003, 11:04 pm

oh it is! (proves your point ;))
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