WINDOWS TRICKS & SHORTCUTS

[ATNO/TW]

May 22nd, 2004, 5:22 am

Copy and pasting in Command Prompt

Highlight text to be copied and hit enter - This copies to clipboard.
Or Highlight text -Right click the Title bar. Select Edit |Copy
To paste Right Click Title Bar. Select Edit |Paste

To change the appearance of the DOS window, Right CLick the Title bar and select defaults. The options are self explanatory.

*note - if you happen to get stuck in Full Screen mode, hit the Windows Key to escape.

May 24th, 2004, 6:54 am

Not sure if someone has posted thisbut
microsoft key and L locks the PC in XP. Saves that awkward ctl-alt delete



Also hold down the tab when you press alt will give you a preview of what programs are available to flick through.

May 24th, 2004, 6:59 am

ctrl-n will open a new window

May 24th, 2004, 1:52 pm

Don't know if someone mentioned (come on it's 11 pages:shock: )

Bring up your Computer properties with:

Winkey + Pause

May 24th, 2004, 4:05 pm

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!!!

May 27th, 2004, 5:05 pm

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

May 28th, 2004, 7:51 am

WoRd Of WiSdOm wrote:

in win xp 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".)

May 28th, 2004, 9:26 am

Freakyp wrote:

Heres one that I have used, several times before... its great...

1. start fdisk, (delete all DOS partitions)

2. Insert Linux CD

that is the best advice I have ever heard. Which linux cd is the question. I like fedora core 2.

May 28th, 2004, 1:40 pm

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

May 31st, 2004, 1:02 am

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.

May 31st, 2004, 10:23 pm

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

June 1st, 2004, 9:54 am

ATNO/TW wrote:

F6 automatically highlights the URL in the address bar of IE - copy and paste at will.

This little trick also works in firefox.

June 2nd, 2004, 9:49 am

ShEDeViL wrote:

ATNO/TW wrote:

F6 automatically highlights the URL in the address bar of IE - copy and paste at will.

This little trick also works in firefox.

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

June 2nd, 2004, 10:36 am

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.

June 2nd, 2004, 10:39 am

ATNO/TW wrote:

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.

I love this. Awesome find!