WINDOWS TRICKS & SHORTCUTS

March 9th, 2004, 6:49 pm

the_Maven wrote:

1) start > shut down

2) select shut down from the menu

3) hold the shift key when pressing OK

ATNO/TW wrote:

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.

hey there ATNO,

Just thought I would share with you this does not work for me.
Xp Pro (SP1a) and a HP EVO Desktop.

The PC still powers completely down...

March 9th, 2004, 8:50 pm

i know why from the way you discribed to me . winXP has two shutdown and log on windows the small little window that resembles that of 2000pro and the whoe page unique to XP if using the XP way it wont work maybe it will the other way but . . . i dont remember how to switch between screens =(

March 13th, 2004, 4:49 am

Hi!

Winkey + Pause = display the Systems Properties page (very useful!! )
Winkey + R = display the Run dialog box
Winkey + M = minimize all windows
Winkey + D = minimize all windows. Press again and desktop apps reappear.
Winkey + Shift + M = undo minimize all windows
Winkey + F1 = starts Windows Help
(F1 by itself brings up Help in the current application)
Winkey + E = start Explorer
Winkey + F = start Find
Winkey + F + CNTL = start Find Computer
Winkey + B = Sets focus on the task bar
Winkey + TAB = cycle through taskbar buttons
Winkey + BREAK = display Systems Properties panel
Winkey + L = lock Desktop

These are all Winkey-Shortcuts I know (hope I didn't forget one ). Now I have a small question to all of you: I'd like to edit them! I mean, I don't want Winkey + L to lock my desktop, I simply don't need this. For example: My IE should start with Winkey + I, XP shutdown with Winkey + L, maximize current window with Winkey + Arrow up...
Is there a special registry-key for winkey-shortcuts? Some of you are ingenious and might know this! I hope my English isn't too bad and you understand me.

March 31st, 2004, 12:53 am

I'll look forward to reading and trying all these shortcuts.. what a long thread, this am i just hav'nt time, but the first page asks about a page that has shortcuts don't know if its for xp or 98 but see for yourself, i'll look over the week !

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http://uk.search.msn.com/results.aspx?srch=105&FORM=AS5&q=win+shortcut+keys

Thanks everyone i'm sure i'll find all this imfo useful as always at ozzu.

April 1st, 2004, 5:24 am

My Favourite would have to be the classic Ctrl+Alt+Del

April 1st, 2004, 8:40 am

lmaoooo thats the only one i knew about till i came here..super duper place is ozzu's!!

[joebert]

April 6th, 2004, 6:10 pm

EDIT: the "script language" tags MUST stay in the .js files
This envolves making changes to your registry, as with all changes to the registry it is recomended that ou backup your system priar to trying this.

To add "Google search" to your IE context menu like firefox has, here's how.
According to Microsoft, this method of adding context items should work as early as IE4.

Open notepad and paste this, (NOTE: You can change the paths to the js files if you want, just make sure you put the files where this says they are.)

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MenuExt\Google As Is]
@="C:\\google_context_noquote.js"
"Contexts"=hex:10

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MenuExt\Google w/Quotes]
@="C:\\google_context_quote.js"
"Contexts"=hex:10

Save as a .REG file, right-click and select merge.

Now paste theese two sniplets and save as the two js files that the reg file points to.

google_context_noquote.js

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<script language="javascript">
// Get the window object where the context menu was opened.
var oWindow = window.external.menuArguments;

// Get the document object exposed through oWindow.
var oDocument = oWindow.document;

// Get the selection from oDocument.
var oSelect = oDocument.selection;

// Create a TextRange from oSelect.
var oSelectRange = oSelect.createRange();

// Get the text of the selection.
var sNewText = oSelectRange.text;

// Build Google QueryString
var googleQ = "http://www.google.com/search?&q=" + sNewText;

// Ask Google
oWindow.open(googleQ);
</script>

google_context_quote.js

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<script language="javascript">
// Get the window object where the context menu was opened.
var oWindow = window.external.menuArguments;

// Get the document object exposed through oWindow.
var oDocument = oWindow.document;

// Get the selection from oDocument.
var oSelect = oDocument.selection;

// Create a TextRange from oSelect.
var oSelectRange = oSelect.createRange();

// Get the text of the selection.
var sNewText = oSelectRange.text;

// Build Google QueryString
var googleQ = "http://www.google.com/search?&q=%22" + sNewText + "%22";

// Ask Google
oWindow.open(googleQ);
</script>

This will cause two new options to show up in the same menu that popsup when you have selected some text.

"Google As Is" sends a query to google with the selected text just as it is, no quotes.

"Google w/Quotes" does the same as above except it places quotes aroung the selected text.

You only need to restart your browser to get this to start working.

April 6th, 2004, 11:21 pm

Alt + Tab and Ctrl + Tab are the best shortcuts ever. If you are running Firefox (like everyone should IMHO) Ctrl + T opens a new tab and Crtl + Tab switches between tabs. (For Mandrake Linux users, Ctrl + Tab allows you to switch between desktops.)

Sorry if these were listed before, I skimmed through about 5 pages and didn't see anything.

April 7th, 2004, 2:44 am

My favorite is possibly CTRL+Z need that one a lot

plus CTRL+ALT+DELETE which broke on my install of mindows XP, which is now off my system, hopefully forever (I hate XP )

ALT+TAB is fantastic if you like to run 300 or so apps at once

JoeBert - that IE context thing is so cool - I'll be trying that when I get home fom work

[joebert]

April 7th, 2004, 10:58 am

In task manager for win2K (dont know about XP) select the processes tab, click view from the menu, then click "Select Columns", This will popup a dialog with 3X as many options as there allready is to watch

[ATNO/TW]

April 7th, 2004, 11:56 am

Nice joebert, I never knew that was there.

April 8th, 2004, 1:36 pm

Sorry if I seem dumb, but what exactly is Firefox? I am a windows guy, but I have never heard of it.

[ATNO/TW]

April 8th, 2004, 1:49 pm

It's a free web browser developed by Mozilla.

Download it from here and check it out. Most of us that use it love it.

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

April 8th, 2004, 3:25 pm

opps, found this one out by mistake, you all know the crtl-Enter trick (adds http://www.******.com)

but it you go Ctrl+Shift+Enter it will give you http://www.*****.com.cn

I don't know any .com.cn sites, but if I did, this would be cool

[ATNO/TW]

April 8th, 2004, 4:36 pm

Here's about 72 and a half million of them -- knock yourself out!

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=U ... TF-8&q=.cn

Interesting tip though.

(BTW -- hope you can read Chinese *lol )