WINDOWS TRICKS & SHORTCUTS

What I have always wondered and have never discovered is what the SysRq is supposed to do. Anybody know? Since it is also Print Scrn, every time I hit it it copies the screen to clipboard, but I have no clue as to what SysRq does.

Reminds me of another good shortcut:

ALT + Print Screen

Copies the selected window into the clipboard (as opposed to the entire desktop when not holding ALT).

I use that one at least once a week...

F5 to refresh a page in IE.

F5 refreshes most apps in windows

Here's one I discovered today by accident. Ever go to a page and the text is a little small and hard to read? If you have a scroll mouse, hold down control while scrolling. This will zoom in and out on the screen. Should work in all Windows versions from at least 98 up. I tested it today on 98, Win2K and XP. There do seem to be some websites like this one, for example, that it doesn't work on, but others OK. Works very well in text editors, though.

Another I remembered and didn't see listed yet is that when filling out a form on a webpage pressing the space bar will add checkmarks to check boxes and will enable radio buttons.

Oh, I got one. It seems to work on my machine, Windows 2K. If you hold the Shift key while scroll your mouse wheel in IE, this should take you to previous page or forward page depending on your scroll.

ljCharlie

Nice one lj -- works for me on Win98 too.

If you have 2 or more items open. *windows* press and hold alt + tab, it'll bring up whatever you have.. To switch press tab, make sure your still holding alt during this time though.


It works on 98 as well as XP, I'm not sure if it works any lower.

If you right click and drag files/folders etc, a sub menu pops up with "Copy here, Move here, Create Shotrcut here" and other options appear at other times as well.

This negates the use of left click and dragging whilst pressing whichever damn buttons move/copy etc. and makes it really easy for computer newbies to remember. This becomes even more useful if you set the My Computer default from "open" to "explorer" (or use WIN+E)

The ONLY time I ever left click and drag now is when I'm moving icons from one desktop to another (Dual Monitors)

To make the action of the "My Computer" icon explore rather than open.

Open explorer. Click Tools/ Folder Options/ File Types. Scroll down to Folder. Click Advanced and change the default to "explore" (much more useful!)

To increase the maximum number of simultaneous downloads in IE from the default of 3.

Run REGEDIT

Navigate to :[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]

Add the following DWORDS:

Dword Name: "MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server"
Dword Value: 00000019

Dword Name: "MaxConnectionsPerServer"
Dword Value: 00000019

This increases the number of simultaneous downloads (per instance of IE) to 10,

Lot's of good ones like that at Winguides, UNFLUX. That one's been around awhile:

http://www.winguides.com/registry/

But it would probably be best to stick to simple tricks and shortcuts here and maybe start a new thread for registery hacks and tweaks with a clear warning that they better have a copy of their restore disk/OS handy if they start playing with them! (or more simply since winguides is dedicated to registery tweaks maybe just bookmark that one.)

I've been saving this one and it's the all-time best keyboard shortcut - and I just reread through all five pages of this thread to make sure nobody has posted it yet. I'm sure this is the greatest keyboard shortcut of all time because it's such a secret...NOBODY seems to know about it or use it.

F1

Go ahead - try it - You'll like it!

I don't like the windows manuals... but if I wanted too I should just macro f1 to launch google! that'd work really good then!

I've recently thought that we at OZZU should all get together and just write a brand new operating system that actually works. I do like your macro idea though.