WINDOWS TRICKS & SHORTCUTS

December 22nd, 2003, 9:12 pm

UNFLUX wrote:

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.

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

[UNFLUX]

December 22nd, 2003, 9:39 pm

nevermind -- I figured out what the problem was. good tip sir

December 23rd, 2003, 10:54 pm

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.

December 29th, 2003, 3:23 am

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

December 30th, 2003, 10:23 pm

I LOVE thise tips. I already have it so my browser says that ie was provided by chris ******** (my last name) and i have the service pack and i have ti so it doesn't show my user name and so on.

December 31st, 2003, 10:47 pm

i haven't seen this one.

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

[digitalMedia]

January 1st, 2004, 6:32 am

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

January 2nd, 2004, 3:20 pm

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.

January 18th, 2004, 9:45 pm

right-click+F=refresh

January 18th, 2004, 11:14 pm

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

January 18th, 2004, 11:23 pm

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

F6 (IE) - highlight address bar

[Windows]+F1 - Windows help

January 23rd, 2004, 5:57 am

nebulae1985 wrote:

right-click+F=refresh

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

[ATNO/TW]

January 23rd, 2004, 7:15 am

IH8Purple wrote:

nebulae1985 wrote:

right-click+F=refresh

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

Right Click + F does bring up the Favorites Bookmark Dialog box in Win2K and XP

Right Click + R is the Refresh

If you want to keep your hands entirely on the keyboard, the sub-menu button (just to the left of the right Ctrl button) does the same thing as right click. I went for years not even realizing that button was there.

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January 24th, 2004, 3:26 pm

press ctrl then roll the mouse idler wheel (sorry , I don't know how to call it ) . we could change the size of fonts in web!

January 24th, 2004, 4:01 pm

James wrote:

Just stumbled across this while using IE

If you hold Ctrl + Left Click a new window appears that shows the first page that was displayed by the browser window you're in.

I never knew that till 2 minutes ago.

umm, the way that works is if you hold control and click a link it opens your link in a new window(Note: if you have a pop-up blocker installed it may change that to allow pop-ups when ctrl+left-clicked)