Windows Tips

Keyboard Shortcut Keys

Are you bored of using the mouse moving it from one corner of your monitor to another?Well,there are some shortcut keys that can speed-up and can be a good tool to improve your working speed,as they have helped me to do my work more accurately and fastly.
Windows Key+E


The best part about shortcut keys is letting your keyboard do half the work. This is a perfect example: This shortcut allows you to open Windows Explorer with one quick keystroke.

Windows Key+M

This is the shortcut to keep in mind when you are at work doing anything but working—it allows you to minimize all of your open windows, leaving just the desktop left exposed. To restore the windows, hit Windows key+Shift+M. Another quick way to do this is Windows key+D, which shows your desktop; to restore, just repeat the same keystroke. This is a handy shortcut to have around the next time your boss is wandering through the office.

Alt+Tab

This allows you to easily scroll through all the windows you have open. If you're working in Word and referring to something in Explorer, for example, you can toggle back and forth between the two programs. You can also use this to switch between windows in the same program, making multitasking a breeze. Very similar is Windows key+Tab: In XP, it lets you scroll the items on the taskbar, and in Vista, it starts Flip 3D for a fun graphical spin on the same idea.

Alt+F4

This shortcut is a quick way to close a window in any program. Alt+Spacebar+C (which requires less stretching, but more keys) and Ctrl+W do the same thing. Any of the ways will allow you to close a window without using your mouse to hit the X in the upper-right corner.

Ctrl+Arrow Keys

In Microsoft Word, the left and right arrows allow you to move the cursor to the beginning of the previous word or the next word; the up and down arrows will do the same with paragraphs. This is very helpful when editing a document or scanning for any reason.

Shift+Delete

If you want to delete a file—and you don't want to deal with it later in the Recycle Bin—this is the way to go. Just be absolutely sure that this is a file you won't want back!

Hold Shift While Inserting a CD

Have you ever wanted to insert a CD and not use it right away? This shortcut allows you to bypass Autorun when inserting a CD so you can control exactly when you will use a CD you've inserted.

Ctrl+Drag

There are many ways to copy a file, but this just might be the easiest. All you have to do is click on the file, hold, and drag it into its desired location. This works the same as another handy shortcut, Ctrl+C.

Windows Key+U+U

Quickly shut down Windows by hitting the Windows key (don't hold it down), hitting U to reach the shutdown menu, and then hitting U again to shut down.

Windows Key+Pause

Need a quick way to get to the Systems Properties menu without too much thought? Just press these two keys and you'll be brought right to it.

Ctrl+Z, Ctrl+Y

Undo an action by hitting Ctrl+Z; if you change your mind, Ctrl+Y will redo the undo.

Shift + Arrow Keys

Holding shift and pressing one of the arrow keys will highlight text in Word (or a group of Excel cells) without the mouse, selecting in the direction the arrow points.

Ctrl+U, Ctrl+B, Ctrl+I

This one's for Office newbies. It's a snap to underline, bold, and italicize without the mouse if you press Ctrl+U (underlining), Ctrl+B (bolding), or Ctrl+I (italicizing).

Command Prompt on Right-Click

Many computer users, specially the programmers, need to launch a command prompt window every once in a while to execute some dos/shell commands. The problem is, when a command prompt window launched, the default path is normally the system path or the user profile's path. The users will then have to do all the "cd" commands to change the directories to the path he/she wants.

This trick shows you how to add an option called "Command Prompt" when you right-click on a folder in Windows. With this option, a Command Prompt Window will launch and its current directory will be the path to the folder you've selected.

Use this trick at your own risk.

The Solution is:

You can either edit your registry OR download the registry file and apply it on your computer.

Method I. Manually edit the registry:

1. Start > Run

2. Enter "regedit" and hit Enter

3. Expand to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell"

4. Right-click on "shell" and select New > Key

5. Make sure a new key is created under "shell". Change the name of this key to "Command Prompt"

6. Right-click on this new key "Command Prompt" and select New > Key

7. Change the name of this key to "command"

8. Here's what we should have:

9. Double-click on the "(Default)" text on the right window to bring up the edit box

10. Enter this text into the Value Data field:

cmd.exe "%1"

11. Click OK and close the registry.

Method II. Download and apply the registry file:

1. Download this registry file Here

2. Unzip it to a temp folder, then double-click on the .reg file to add the registry data

Hide all drives from My Computer


This trick is a user contributed. The information might have been copied and pasted exactly as what user posted.

Proceed at your own risks.

How to Hide the drives(c:,d:,e:,...etc) in Ur Computer

This is a great trick you can play on your friends. To disable the display of local or networked drives when you click My Computer.

1. Go to Start -> Run.

2. Type regedit

3. Now go to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

4. Now in the right pane, create a new DWORD item and name it NoDrives (it is case sensitive).

5. Now modify it's value and set it to 3FFFFFF (Hexadecimal) .

6. Now restart your computer.

7. So, now when you click on My Computer, no drives will be shown(all gone...).

To enable display of drives in My Computer, simply delete this DWORD item that you created. Again restart your computer. You can now see all the drives again. Magic.......


How to Operate Mouse Pointer Without Mouse (Magic)


This trick is a user contributed. The information might have been copied and pasted exactly as what user posted.

Proceed at your own risks.

You have Mouse Problem ?? No Problem

I will give you suggestion

Press Left Alt + Left Shift + Num Lock Button + Ok
with the help of Numeric Keypad e.g ( Press and Hold the following Keys )

7 8 9
4 6
1 2 3

For Normal Click Press 5

Default

Left Alt + Left Shift + Num Lock