WINDOWS TRICKS & SHORTCUTS

June 3rd, 2004, 2:19 am

did anyone get my 1 working?

June 3rd, 2004, 1:07 pm

ShEDeViL wrote:

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.

nice, works like charm

June 11th, 2004, 1:47 pm

Do any of you know how to put outlook in the sys tray so it doesn't take up space on my task bar? (I'd like to do that with winamp too if I can)

June 13th, 2004, 10:10 am

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.

June 23rd, 2004, 11:28 pm

Quote:

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.

This also works in Mozilla 1.6 and up. I'm not sure about below 1.6 though. It will work in netscape also but you have to enable it.

June 28th, 2004, 8:58 pm

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.

July 4th, 2004, 2:22 am

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

[ATNO/TW]

July 4th, 2004, 6:40 am

Nice tute Jim. After reading your tute I remember stumbling upon that a year or so ago. In fact I think I learned about it in class and then just forgot about it. Anyway, thanks for the tute.

July 13th, 2004, 10:42 am

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:

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.bat\ShellNew]
"NullFile"=""

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

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.reg\ShellNew]
"Data"="Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00"

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

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[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.html\ShellNew]
"command"="\"program path\\program name\" \"template path\\template file\""

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:

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[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.txt\ShellNew]
"Command"="\"%programfiles%\\Crimson Editor\\cedt.exe\" \"%1\""

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:

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[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.html\ShellNew]
"Command"="\"%programfiles%\\Chami\\HTML-Kit\\Bin\\HTMLKit.exe\" \"C:\\templates\\New.css\" \" C:\\templates\\New.html\""

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

July 15th, 2004, 4:56 pm

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!

July 16th, 2004, 12:45 am

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

July 18th, 2004, 7:12 am

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!

July 18th, 2004, 10:07 pm

my favorite is ctrl+alt+del..because a lot of times my computer gets stuck.

July 19th, 2004, 8:44 pm

wowowowowoowow

THANKS FOR ALL THE SHORTCUTS U GUYS!

July 22nd, 2004, 9:47 am

I dont know if this is here but....

In outlook hit CRTL+SHIFT+A and it opens your appointments so that you may set a new one.