WINDOWS TRICKS & SHORTCUTS

[ATNO/TW]

January 27th, 2005, 9:38 am

CTRL+ALT+ (any arrow key) will rotate your screen display in the direction of the arrow if your graphic card supports it.

January 27th, 2005, 9:41 am

ATNO/TW wrote:

CTRL+ALT+ (any arrow key) will rotate your screen display in the direction of the arrow if your graphic card supports it.

Woah, just tried that on my work computer. Now to find some co-workers who forget to lock their terminals...

[ATNO/TW]

January 27th, 2005, 9:54 am

*lol -- I knew that was going to cross somebody's mind!

Yeah, some contemporary flat panel monitors and laptops screens can be physically rotated, so this feature is now being included on newer graphics cards to adjust for that.

[ATNO/TW]

February 11th, 2005, 10:48 pm

To shorten the step you could just hold the Windows key + R and then type explorer.

February 11th, 2005, 10:52 pm

ATNO/TW wrote:

To shorten the step you could just hold the Windows key + R and then type explorer.

that might not work when explorer crashes, since the start menu is part of it

[joebert]

February 12th, 2005, 5:18 pm

When installing more RAM don't forget to adjust the size of your paging file to reflect the new amount of ram.

If a memory dump occurs you can get a bsod complaining about ntoskrnl.exe since it's still working with the old size of paged space with more ram

April 9th, 2005, 10:40 am

ALT + ESCAPE Minimizes Active Window.

June 21st, 2005, 5:08 am

ATNO/TW wrote:

Since I have at times as many as 10 or more windows open at once a nifty little keyboard shortcut that instantly minimizes all open windows:

Ctrl+Esc immediately followed by Alt+M

That's my alltime favorite. I also like Windowskey+E to bring up the Windows Explorer and Windowskey+R to bring up Run. I also use Ctrl+A to select all, Ctrl+C to copy Ctrl+Z to Cut, and Ctrl+V to paste. Very convenient shortcuts when copying code and hypertext links.

Bro, just use WindowsKey + m.. and thats it... it minimize all..

June 22nd, 2005, 4:05 pm

so does winkey d

July 6th, 2005, 10:22 pm

i found this one by accident :
When signing up on the hotmail page , instead of typing the full email address just type your first part of your id and then press alt + tab , this will automatically add @hotmail.com to it

July 8th, 2005, 1:43 pm

But I found not to press alt+tab even!
If you enter your id and click on the text box of password "@hotmail.com" is automatically added.

Quote:

i found this one by accident :
When signing up on the hotmail page , instead of typing the full email address just type your first part of your id and then press alt + tab , this will automatically add @hotmail.com to it

Well, a great shortcut all use is Alt+bckspace to undo events.

"Alt+Print Screen" and then "ctrl+v" in any image editor saves a copy of recent window screenshot(thats too hot).

July 8th, 2005, 4:47 pm

alt tab will take you away from the page wouldnt it? anyways, tab will get you into the password box.
shift+tab will take you back one box if you have use tab to move forward, [or even if you havent]

July 9th, 2005, 9:44 am

Oops, haven't noticed that, just replied seeing previous message.

Yes,
not "alt+tab" but "tab" or "shift+tab".

July 20th, 2005, 8:26 am

There are quite a few pages of shortcuts here! I wonder if these have been mentioned in theis extensive list? -

Hold down Num Lock for 10 seconds turns on "Toggle Keys" - it makes your Caps Lock, Num Lock and Scroll Lock keys beep when pressed... very useful if you hit Caps Lock instead of "A" a lot (like me)!

F7 in a browser turns on "Caret Browsing" allowing you to move the cursor ALL OVER a webpage with the keyboard. Can be useful when trying to select stuff.

AND MY ALL TIME FAVOURITE:

Press Alt+Left Shift+Print Scrn to switch on High-Contrast mode!

(This is useful to play pranks on people who aren't sitting at their workstation, because it doesn't tell you how to turn it off! Such fun was had as a student lol!

July 21st, 2005, 7:23 am

Similarly Sticky keys are turned on by pressing 'shift' five times that enables you not to press ctrl and/or alt and/or shift and/or numlock simaltaneously where those are needed.

Also 'Filter keys' comes up by pressing 'shift' for 8 seconds.

Winkey+Break brings up the System Properties.

If you use Windows XP and apply the Alt+Tab switch power toy then by pressing alt+tab you can switch over to different opened windows whichever you want.