WINDOWS TRICKS & SHORTCUTS

Aahh- never heard of that one. Will come in useful.

Your right, 11 pages is a bit much to check before you post a new suggestion.

We could be experiencing an infinite repeating cycle!!!

in win xp shutdown -s will start shutdown and shutdown -a will stop it

nice, this comes in handy when I shutdown on accident.

This is not really a trick, but a quick way to shutdown that I always use:
Winkey, then UpArrow, then Enter, Enter again.
(Most of the time, I would do that and then "oh crap, i forgot to save".)

If you accidentally choose "Shutdown" instead of "Log off", you can hit CTRL-ALT-DEL quickly, while you see the shutting down window(s).
It will normally bring up the login screen [Press CTRL-ALT-DEL to login] again, without really shutting down.

I actually did this once, by accident, because i was freaking out when trying to log off the admin of a server and selecting "shutdown" instead

Make Start menu faster,

go to run,then regedit HKEY current user

then Control panal then desktop and look for menu Show Delay.
at the right hand Side they will be a list,

set to Number 0 then Restart computer then done

u have a faster start menu.

one word... ResHack..... lol, its kinda related to tricks and shortcuts....

yep.
Couldn't find a place to post short-cuts for firefox, i guess here is fine:
Ctrl + T to open new tab
Ctrl + Tab to traverse tabs
Ctrl + N to open new window

Just accidently found this one in firefox.

If you hold down the left mouse button and start typing, it acts like find.

For example, if you hold down the left mouse button and type 'how' it will find the find and highlight the first instance of 'how' on the page.

Edit: I thought that you had to hold down the mouse button, but it appears that it works if you just start typing.

If you're running winamp 5. Go to preferences > general preferences. Then almost at the bottom, uncheck the taskbar box and check the system tray box.

This tip addresses the 60 Hz refresh rate bug in win2k/XP.

http://www.ntcompatible.com/thread23288-1.html

Useful for gamers or anyone using an app that invariably switches the refresh rate to 60hz. Works for DirectX or OpenGL applications.

This next tip deals with a little known feature of the Windows 2000/XP Task Manager. Many think this is a bug in windows after they stumble upon it by accident. In fact, just last night someone posted a question in this very forum about this problem/feature. *grin*

Microsoft even has a 'fix' : http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... -us;314227

Since I had a few images to go with this tip, I decided to just make a couple of 'quick and dirty' web pages.

Anyway, here it is:
Tiny Footprint Mode

This trick will let you add items to the New context menu. This requires some knowledge of the registry.

The HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT hive of the registry contains information that lets Windows determines how to handle particular file types. Default open and edit options, open with choices, and context menu handlers.

The ShellNew key can be added to virtually any extension in this hive which will add that particular file type to the new context menu.

Here's the format of the Key needed to accomplish this.

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ext\ShellNew]
"Value"="data"

.ext determines the file type you want to add to the New Menu.

Value determines exactly how the context handler will create the new file in question. There are 4 possible value types that can be used:

"NullFile"="": Creates a blank document where the New file was selected.

"FileName"="Filename": Creates a new document which contains the contents of the template file stored in \Windows\ShellNew.

"Command"="path\command": Executes a program. This one is my favorites.

"Data"="text to be placed in new document": Creates a new document which contains the text assigned to the value data.

Here are some examples:

Create an empty Batch file:


Create a new registry file with the obligatory text, Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 at the beginning:


Launch your html editor of choice when Selecting New HTML document:


This last one is a bit more tricky. The extra quotes are necessary when the path names contain spaces such as C:\program files\.... The \ character is necessary when including the extra quotes inside of the quoted registry data. You may also use system variables such as %programfiles% or %systemroot%. If the values assigned to these particular variables contain spaces, then the extra quotes are still required. Double \\ are also necessary when defining paths to your program.

To create a new blank document and launch your program of choice, use the "%1" variable after your program name. Example:



This will launch crimson editor and create a blank document at the location the new text file was selected.

Here is an example that I use to launch HTML-Kit with my default HTML and CSS document:



Of course, you can use RegEdit to add these entries directly. The extra quotes and slashes are not necessary when using regedit to edit your data.

This should give you a general idea of what can be done in the way of new context menu entries. As always, take care when editing the registry. These edits are fairly safe. The worst thing that happened when I made a mistake with one entry was that a program failed to launch. Still, use caution. Always back up your registry

I just went through all 12 pages (yes, I did it!) and I didn't see the following shortcuts:

ALT-SHIFT-TAB to go backwards through apps like Alt-tab does!

SHIFT-TAB to scroll backwards through tabbed items, whatever they may be. This works in virtually every app. So when I accidentally try to make an indent in this quick reply box and it shoots down to the button, I hit shift-tab and it comes back up here so I can continue!

Question: Does anybody know of a shortcut to start your screensaver in XP? That would be awesome!

I'm sure most of you know this but everyone I've ever done this infront of didn't know you could do this;

Click mouse scroll wheel down instead of rolling it to put an arrow on the webpage, now move mouse to automatically scroll screen at whatever speed you like depending on distance between arrows. Works in all directions. Great when reading long webpages and your hands are buisy elsewhere!! ( I mean eating or shaving etc.............it's the mind it goes into!!!)

Kevlar

If you hold Ctrl + Push F5 twice in IE it will refresh the page fully and not refesh it from your cache file, great if you desinging a site on a bad ISP like NTL where if you push f5 all you get is the copy they want you to see!