WINDOWS TRICKS & SHORTCUTS

Oh, I get it - "Winky" must be an XP theme thing. I switched mine to Windows Classic as soon as I turned the machine on. *lol - getting a little old for change! I still call it the Start button.

ATNO - I've never heard it called "Start Button" when referring to the
keyboard. As long as I can remember back on Win 3.1, it's been called
Windows Key or "Winkey."

Maybe just that we've just never heard the terms...interesting nonetheless.

I guess it was how I was saying it in my mind. Winky as in wink-ee

Now I feel like a dunce. I was multi-tasking and was reading fast. Let's see what other excuses can I come up with. *duh

funny

I actually thought you simply mistyped it!

I wish...Yep, that was a blunder on my part...but even though I did remember after-the-fact the WinKey term...I actually have allways refered to it as "Start". But I hear you...I see where it comes from now after over half a day of reading!

huh works fine for me...... much eaiser than 3 keys i think!

heres one i didnt see listed here not 100% windows tip/trick as it is office or MS Word specifically.

ever get a document in word and it is all caps or all lower case or how about you type a whole sentence in word in caps by mistake andhave to delete the whole line and re type it all. well in word you can simply HIGHLIGHT the sentence or words, press shift + F3 and it will alternate from all caps to all lower case to caps on first letter of each word to caps on first letter of each sentence.

next time your in MS word try it out. it may work in other word processors like word pad etc too not sure never tried. if anyone knows let me know.

wanna make your installed printer cannot be deleted ?
here's the trick: (Registry Editor)

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

Add a DWORD named "NoDeletePrinter" (without quotes of course),
and change the value to 1


Don't want allow user to add printer ?

Add a DWORD named "NoAddPrinter" (without quotes of course),
and change the value to 1

i haven't seen this one.

i no in IE if u push the backspace button it will take u back a page

'alt + tab' to toggle between open apps. no thought required. (:

this one was posted a long time ago by bigwebmaster and i ddin't see it here. i was trying to figure out how to delete my account. my other one that i signed up as. its whatmistxfle if u want to delete it for me.

Nevermind, looks like I found it myself. Here is the answer:

Open up your favorite notepad editor and copy and paste the following into it:

[Shell]
Command=2
IconFile=explorer.exe,3
[Taskbar]
Command=ToggleDesktop

Now save that file to your desktop and call it Desktop.scf

Once that is done left click on the file you just created on your desktop and drag it over to your Quick Launch bar and release. You should now be able to goto your desktop again by pressing the Show Desktop link you just made.



it is to remake the show desktop button incase u delete it.

right-click+F=refresh

In IE you can press Ctrl+N to open a new browser windows.

ok...ionno if anybody's posted these yet...but here goes:

F6 (IE) - highlight address bar

[Windows]+F1 - Windows help

Weird when I do it I get a pop-up things to add this page as a favorite
(Win XP, IE 6.0)

and try to read the posts (I know there are a lot of them) before posting your shortcut as there seems to be a lot of repeats

My favortie shortcut is the "Media" button on my keyboard