WINDOWS TRICKS & SHORTCUTS

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.

July 23rd, 2005, 1:40 am

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July 23rd, 2005, 3:03 am

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August 7th, 2005, 11:35 pm

It may have already been discussed but helpful.
Shift+F10 brings up the right-click menu.

Well, in .NET passport enabled sites hotmail is no more letting to auto insert the "@hotmail.com" beside user id. Bad!!.

August 9th, 2005, 11:48 am

If you press F3 it will prompt at the right ( for IE ) or the bottom ( for firefox ) a search option to find a word in the current page.
I think is usefull , Have fun!

August 9th, 2005, 11:50 am

If you press F3 it will prompt at the right ( for IE ) or the bottom ( for firefox ) a search option to find a word in the current page.
I think is usefull , Have fun!

August 9th, 2005, 12:23 pm

Welcome to OZZU vieri.

Or you can just hit Ctrl+F, it seems much more convenient for me

August 9th, 2005, 2:07 pm

F3 is used as "Find Next" in many many programs from Wordpad,notepad to IE,regedit etc.
Its very common.
Just like "Ctrl+O" to open and "Ctrl+N" for "new".

August 9th, 2005, 2:22 pm

Minimize all window by "Win key + D" and the window in focus by "Alt+Space+N".

And a great hidden shortcut for beginners with C/C++ programming in Turbo C++. If a program falls in an infinite loop while running use "Ctrl+Numlock".

The windows shortcut keys to which respond the DOS applications are in general "Alt+Tab","Alt+PrntScrn","Ctrl+Esc","Alt+Esc","Alt+Enter","PrntScrn" etc.

Use "Ctrl" to point out mouse pointer. The option is at Start>Control Panel>Printers and other hardware>Mouse>Pointer Option>check "Show location of pointer when I press CTRL key".

Well, these are all that all know.

August 9th, 2005, 2:29 pm

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.

Isn't it Ctrl-X to cut? Ctrl-Z to undo.

August 9th, 2005, 2:35 pm

Yes Ctrl+X to cut and Ctrl+Z or Alt+Bckspace to undo.
Not

Quote:

Ctrl+Z to Cut

August 17th, 2005, 4:55 am

haha, i just looked through 20 pages of shortcuts....wooh!

umm...for this baby

vAs wrote:

oops i forgot this one, i use all the time...

win button + e > alt + t > o > file types > go down to N/A - Folder

Advanced > New >
Action :- View In Dos >
Application :- cmd.exe /k cd /d %1

Now right click any desktop icon and it takes you straight there in DOS.

Keep tweaks coming guys these are a good read

vAs

i did that jsut to see what would happen, and now I cant remove it. any idea how to accomplish that?