WINDOWS TRICKS & SHORTCUTS
- Cuerock
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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!
- Anonymous
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- UNFLUX
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nevermind -- I figured out what the problem was. good tip sir
- Borrow -A- Geek
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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.
- friends
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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 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.
i haven't seen this one.
i no in IE if u push the backspace button it will take u back a page
- digitalMedia
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'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.
- nebulae1985
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- Cipher-21
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In IE you can press Ctrl+N to open a new browser windows.
- lotri
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ok...ionno if anybody's posted these yet...but here goes:
F6 (IE) - highlight address bar
[Windows]+F1 - Windows help
- IH8Purple
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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
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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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- nebulae1985
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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!
- IH8Purple
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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)
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