WINDOWS TRICKS & SHORTCUTS

[ATNO/TW]

January 31st, 2004, 11:22 am

Tired of looking for files via Windows Explorer? Create a custom toolbar for it.

Right Click any blank spot on your desktop toolbar. Navigate to Toolbars|New Toolbar.

Navigate to your C: drive (or any other drive or folder you'd like).
Left Click it once to highlight it and click OK.

Your C: drive is now on your desktop toolbar. Click the double arrows >> to expand it and navigate through it like you do your start menu.

January 31st, 2004, 11:03 pm

http://camtech2000.net/Pages/Keyboarding.html
this guy has 2,900 keyboard shortcuts put into a program

it is designed for 95, 98, 98se, and ME, however most of they have converted over to XP

February 1st, 2004, 12:35 am

I read on page 4 somone asked what the Sys RQ button is. It was a command called "system request" designed by IBM for use in there termnal services.

[ATNO/TW]

February 1st, 2004, 5:46 am

Drac -Thanks. That was me that asked. I never did know until now.

February 2nd, 2004, 10:00 am

To switch to the desktop, the other option is to press the Windows key and M at the same time.

February 2nd, 2004, 10:01 am

OR Win+D, that way you can press Win+D again to restore your apps.

February 2nd, 2004, 1:38 pm

with winkey+M puts apps down, winkey+shift+M brings them back up, good if you have a tendancy to double key for whatever reason

February 2nd, 2004, 8:56 pm

I went through all of these to make sure that no one else had posted it.
i don't know if it works with other versions of Windows.

1) start > shut down

2) select shut down from the menu

3) hold the shift key when pressing OK

the operating system will restart WITHOUT restarting the computer. there are more of these on http://www.annoyances.org

- The Maven

[ATNO/TW]

February 2nd, 2004, 9:18 pm

I'm fairly certain it works with 98 and up (to the best of my knowledge) the_Maven...but not sure of any prior. I thought I posted that earlier, but perhaps not. I use that one quite a bit.

February 13th, 2004, 2:52 pm

Probable posted before but what the hey:

alt + f4 : closes the focused application, or goes to the shut down menu if none are focused ( all windows versions save 3.1)

(I usually hold these down if I am in a hurry to exit programs and shut down )

windows key + l : locks computer on most configs (XP)

windows key + r : goes to run prompt ( for netstat , net view , or any of the following commands ....)

Run dialog programs: ( 98 + afaik )
"winver" : displays Windows Release Version
"charmap" : displays Windows character Map for various fonts
"calc" : opens calculator program

[ATNO/TW]

February 13th, 2004, 4:04 pm

This one is priceless! It has driven me nuts for over a year. Those of you who have Windows NT or Windows 2000 machines probably already know that Microsoft exluded MSCONFIG from those two OS's. It makes it so difficult to elliminate garbage from startup. If you don't know where to find the program or it doesn't have an option to not run at startup it's almost impossible to elliminate. I was almost ready to ask the question here, but finally did a couple productive searches and found the solution.

Microsoft added this back in XP. You can work this one of two ways. If you have access to an XP machine you can copy msconfig.exe to your Win NT or Win2K machine in the System32 folder.

If you don't have access to an XP machine you can download the zip file from thetechguide.com - http://www.thetechguide.com/downloads.html (you'll see it at the bottom) here's the direct link to the zip file - http://downloads.thetechguide.com/msconfig.zip
Again, unzip the file and copy it to System32. It will execute in Start|Run like anything else in the System32 folder will.

(don't let the terms on the site "Ripped from WinXP" bother you. This is not a crack, it's a simple matter of copy and paste.)

It works like a charm! Enjoy!

February 15th, 2004, 3:12 pm

I don't know the proper name but to turn "text eating" (when you type your charater replaces the one infront of it) on and off press the Insert Button.

March 5th, 2004, 10:44 am

how do you restart win xp without your machine restarting

[ATNO/TW]

March 9th, 2004, 2:26 pm

Here's one I've been looking for for a long time:

http://lists.isb.sdnpk.org/pipermail/co ... 02358.html

Descibes how to close all open windows and applications quickly.

Works in Win2K as well, but on the right click you choose close, vs. close group.

Quote:

Have you ever been on a troubleshooting expedition and needed to shut
down all the running applications on a system before you could proceed?
More than likely, you probably accessed each window and manually shut down
the application.

If you've ever had to do this on a system that had multiple windows open
at the same time, you know how time-consuming it is to manually shut
down each application's window. Wouldn't it be great if you could quickly
shut down all running applications at the same time? Here's how to
implement this trick:

1. While pressing the [Ctrl] key, successively click each of the task
icons on the taskbar.

2. Right-click the last task icon, and choose Close Group.

When you select the Close Group command, Windows XP initiates a standard
exit procedure for each open application. If any application has unsaved
information in an open document, the application will prompt you to save
the document before it closes.

March 9th, 2004, 3:23 pm

WOW, THANK YOU SO MUCH ANTO THAT IS AWSOME, and very helpful when doing stuff with GIMP