WINDOWS TRICKS & SHORTCUTS

December 11th, 2003, 11:29 am

Trying to bold, italicize, or underline?

ctrl+b= Bold
ctrl+i= italic
ctrl+u= Underline

Highlight your selection and boom done no mouse needed!

December 11th, 2003, 1:26 pm

also in you Outlook you can "backspace" through to go back and forth through the calender, inbox, deleted items....etc..

December 21st, 2003, 6:21 am

In IE:

If you just type the name of a website into the address bar then press Ctrl and Enter windows automaticall puts http://www. before it and .com afterwards.....it saves a lot of time.

e.g.

Type "ozzu" into the address bar

Press Ctrl and Enter

http://www.ozzu.com appears!

[UNFLUX]

December 21st, 2003, 9:54 am

James - now THAT is a GREAT TRICK! nice one!

[ATNO/TW]

December 21st, 2003, 11:20 am

Wow! Yes, that is very handy James - Thanks.

December 22nd, 2003, 1:42 am

CTRL+F5 - Force refresh in IE, good if you have cached pages, 99% of us do, especially immediately after updating a page on a site via FTP, or after updating the hosts file (C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts) if you've got those stupid browser hijackers

CTRL+E - Built-in IE Search feature; it's horrible compared to google, but hey, it has my site!

Winkey + U - If you're deaf, this is a great tool!

Winkey + B - see the status of your network connection

some others too lazy to write down

[ATNO/TW]

December 22nd, 2003, 11:09 am

Umm - I'll ask the stupid question. What key is "Winkey" ?

[UNFLUX]

December 22nd, 2003, 1:23 pm

look at your PC keyboard, on the bottom left between your Ctrl and
Alt keys is a key with a Windows logo on it. Hold it down like Shift to
accomplish various shortcuts.

Such as --
Winkey + D = Show Desktop

enjoy.

December 22nd, 2003, 1:57 pm

that reminds me....

winkey + L = locked pc!

[UNFLUX]

December 22nd, 2003, 2:58 pm

that doesn't work too well -

I locked it, left the password field blank and it let me right back in. Also,
none of my passwords were valid when locking it with that method.

[ATNO/TW]

December 22nd, 2003, 3:00 pm

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.

[UNFLUX]

December 22nd, 2003, 3:02 pm

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.

[ATNO/TW]

December 22nd, 2003, 4:11 pm

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

[UNFLUX]

December 22nd, 2003, 8:37 pm

funny

I actually thought you simply mistyped it!

[ATNO/TW]

December 22nd, 2003, 8:46 pm

UNFLUX wrote:

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!