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Tips and Tricks

This document provides several keyboard shortcuts and tricks for Windows: 1. Press Win+U+U to shut down the computer without using the mouse. Press Win+U+R to restart the computer. 2. Press Alt+Space+R to reduce the size of a window. You can also rename folders without using the mouse by pressing F2 after highlighting the folder with arrow keys. 3. Press Alt+255 on the numeric keypad to create special folders like "CON" and "AUX" that normally cannot be created.

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Tips and Tricks

This document provides several keyboard shortcuts and tricks for Windows: 1. Press Win+U+U to shut down the computer without using the mouse. Press Win+U+R to restart the computer. 2. Press Alt+Space+R to reduce the size of a window. You can also rename folders without using the mouse by pressing F2 after highlighting the folder with arrow keys. 3. Press Alt+255 on the numeric keypad to create special folders like "CON" and "AUX" that normally cannot be created.

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Tip #2 - You can tap the Space bar on the keyboard to scroll down on a Web page one

screenful at a
time. Add the Shift key (Shift + Space bar) to scroll back up. You can also use the arrow
keys or the page
up/page down keys on the keyboard to move up and down.
Tip #3 - You can switch or toggle from one open program to the next by pressing Alt
key plus the Tab
key (Alt+Tab). Also look down at the taskbar at the bottom of the computer screen and
any program
that you have open will be showing.
Tip
Remove formatting from aany text. Highlight the text and press ctrl+spacebar. It will
set the text to the default font, size, and remove links also.
For webpage hold down the ctrl key and press + or to zoom out or in
To reset the zoom back to the default view press and hold down CTRL and press to 0 key.
Repeat the last action.
Use the f4 key allow the user to repeat the last used action. For eg. If you have changed
the color of a selected text and want to change another portion of text to the same color,
highlight the text and press f4
Press ctrl+D to quickly enter an internet address without having to click the mouse
cursor in the address bar.
Press f11 to male the internet browser full screen and then again press it to come back
to normal mode.
Ctrl + enter to the address bar to insert the .com without typing it.
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Move cursor to the last saved position by pressing SHIFT+F5
Open the recent files by pressing ALT +F to open the file Menu and press 1,2, 3,4 or
the number in front of the recent document you wish to open.
Create hyperlinking by highlighting text and pressing CTRL + k
Windows sign + m to minimize all windows and focus to desktop.

Ctrl + Back space

Pressing Ctrl + Backspace will delete a full word at a time instead of a single character.

Ctrl + K

Insert hyperlink for selected text

Alt +

Open the Properties for the selected item (file, folder,

Enter

shortcut, etc.)

Alt + Tab or Ctrl + Tab


Quickly switch between open programs moving forward.
SHIFT+DELETE (Delete the selected item permanently without placing the item in the
Recycle Bin)
NUM LOCK+Asterisk sign (*) (Display all of the subfolders that are under the selected
folder)

WINKEY + M Minimizes all windows.


WINKEY + L Lock the computer (Windows XP and above only).
Spacebar Moves down a page at a time.
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Schedule a Program to Launch Every Five Minutes


Finally, this trick is the most advanced and takes the longest to set up, but it really has the
power to annoy.
From the Control Panel go to "Administrative Tools." Double-click on "Task Scheduler," click
on the "Action" menu and select "Create task."
Give your task a name (it doesn't matter what) then click on the "Triggers" tab, click "New,"
look down to find "Advanced settings," and check the box where it says "Repeat task every..."
Click on the drop-down menu and select "5 minutes." Now hit "OK."
Now go to the "Actions" tab and select "New." The drop-down menu should default to "Start a
program." Leave it on this option and browse for the program you want to start -- something

fairly innocuous like Solitaire is a good bet. Hit "OK." Click on "OK" in the next window and
your task will be saved.
The program you selected will now launch every five minutes, driving your victim crazy -until you chose to reveal your dastardly actions!

Add Text to the Clock Display

We're getting into tricks that require a little more time now, but this is a great one to carry out if
you can ensure your victim will be absent from his machine for awhile.
Add a small amount of text to your victim's time and date display, which, when they notice it,
should freak them out good and proper.
To do this head to the Control Panel. Open "Region and Language." In the "Formats" tab, hit
"Additional settings." Select the "Time" tab. In the "AM symbol" and "PM symbol" boxes,
enter the text you want displayed. In the "Long time" box type "tt" (with no quotation marks).
Hit "OK."
Your text will now show above the date display (where the time used to show).
Depending on how observant your victim is, it might take them awhile to notice the change,
but we bet they'll be rather surprised when they do!

Make Desktop Icons Disappear

This prank is so easy, you can do it in just a few seconds.


When you have access to your victim's computer, right-click on the desktop background, hit
the first option -- "View" -- then uncheck the "Show desktop icons" option.
Now, sit back and wait for utter confuzzlement.

Run programs on an infected PC Often times, malware will


prevent a computer from running certain programs. Changing the
name of the .exe file can often override this. If that doesnt work,
changing the extension to .com is another useful alternative, and
the program will still be able to run in spite of the extension change
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Create snapshots in windows

Failure one: not waking EARLY IN morning


Failure second: not using the app for fluent English
Failure third: not using the app for the aptitude and logical reasoning.
Will definitely make the app for the do to list some day,.
Dont know how but will make it someday.
Your future is resultant of current behavior.

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}

View Your Computer's Important Network Information

Maybe just for your own information, but certainly when you're troubleshooting a network or Internet
problem, you'll probably at some point need to know details about your computer's network
connection.

Everything you'd want to know about your network connection is available somewhere in the Control
Panel in Windows, but it's much easier to find, and much better organized, in the results from the
ipconfig command.
Open Command Prompt and execute ipconfig /all. What displays on screen next is everything
important about your network connection: your IP address, hostname, DHCP server, DNS information,
and much, much more.
Combine this hack with Command Prompt Trick #7 and you've got a very easy way to get information
about your connection to someone helping you with a problem.
Use Robocopy as a Backup Solution

Thanks to the robocopy command, you don't need to use Window's backup software or install a third
party program to manage your backups.
Just execute robocopy c:\users\tim\documents f:\backup\documents /copyall /e /r:0 /dcopy:t /mir,
obviously replacing the source and destination folders with whatever you'd like to backup and where.
The robocopy command with these options functions identically to an incremental backup software
tool, keeping both locations in sync.
You don't have the robocopy command if you're using Windows XP or earlier. However, you do have
the xcopy command, which can be used to do something very similar: xcopy c:\users\tim\documents
f:\backup\documents /c /d /e /h /i /k /q /r /s /x /y.
Find a Website's IP Address

Like to know the IP address of a website? There are a few different commands you can use to find it.
Let's use the nslookup command to find the IP address of About.com. Just execute nslookup
about.com and view the result. Make sure you don't confuse any private IP addresses that also show
up in the nslookup results alongside About.com'spublic IP address.
Another way to find a site's IP address is to use the ping command. Execute ping about.com and then
look at the IP address between the brackets in the results shown.
Win+U+U
If you want to shut down your computer without mouse then press window key and then press U key 2 times.
Win+U+R
Use these keys to restart your Computer
Alt + Space + R
This short key reduces the size of window
YOU CAN CHANGE THE NAME OF ANY FOLDER WITHOUT MOUSE.
Simply highlight required folder through arrows key and press F2. Write the name of folder and press Enter.

Ever tried to create a folder "CON" or "AUX" or "NUL".


Tried now??? - not working :)
Here you go, a simple method to stop your anxiety
Rename folder from the right click option........
Now press alt and press 255...
press 255 frm the right side of the key bords i.e, Num pad.
where only numbers are given.....
now write con and then press enter.....yayyy!!
you ll see a con folder in ur pc
and also you can delete it easily.

Press Alt + D to move the cursor into the address bar.

Hold down the Ctrl key and press the + or - to increase and decrease the size
of text. Ctrl + 0 will reset the text.

Press the backspace key or press Alt key + left arrow to go back a page.

Press F5 to refresh or reload a web page.

Press F11 to make the Internet browser screen full screen. Press F11 again to
return to the normal view.

Press Ctrl + B to open your Internet bookmarks.

Press Ctrl + F to open the find box to search for text within the web page you are
reading.

Win+T: Focus and scroll through items on the taskbar.


Win+B: Focuses the System Tray icons.
Drag+Drop taskbar buttons or System Tray icons: to reorganize them.
Shift+Click on a taskbar button: Open a program or quickly open another
instance of a program.
Ctrl+Shift+Click on a taskbar button: Open a program as an administrator.

Shift+Right-click on a taskbar button: Show the window menu for the


program (like XP does).
Shift+Right-click on a grouped taskbar button: Show the window menu for
the group.
Ctrl+Click on a grouped taskbar button: Cycle through the windows of the
group.
Drag a File to a taskbar button: to pin the file to the current application's Jump
List.
Shift+Drag a File to a taskbar button: to open a file with the current
application.
Middle-Click on a taskbar button: to open a new instance of the application.
Middle-Click on a Aero Thumbnail: to close that application instance.
Manage Your Applications

To open a new window of the same application (for example, to open a new Chrome window or a
second Desktop folder), hold the Shift key, the Window key and then a number from one to nine. If
you want to page through the open windows, press Control, Window, and a number, from one to nine.
To access the open a command option, hold down the Shift key and right-click a folder.
This tip only works for Windows 7 or Vista

Create new instance of an Application in Windows 7


Super Taskbar

In windows 7 Taskbar instance of an application can easily be created


by using Win + Number Key. Here number key signifies the position of
the Application in the Taskbar.
If you press Windows + 1, it will create a new instance of the first icon
in the task bar. In the taskbar Shown here it will open an instance of
Internet Explorer while Win+5 open Windows media Player, Win+7 to
Windows Live writer and so on.

Customize Windows 7 Power Button Action


The Shut Down button in Windows 7 can be customized with another
action, if you use shut down action very rarely, but you more often restart
it or put it on hibernate.
To change the action of shutdown button, Right click the Start Button, go to
Properties and choose the Power Boot Action to do whatever you want,
from the given options. It will give you a drop down list amongst following
option to select from.
Switch user
Log off

Lock
Restart
Sleep
Hibernate
Shutdown

Display Multiple Clocks in System Tray

Many users need to keep track of time in multiple time zones, theres
a nice feature in Windows 7 to help users keep track of time in
Multiple Time zones. The feature is multiple clocks in your system
tray. This feature can display up to 3 clocks in your taskbar from 3
different Time Zones.
Click on Click on the Clock in System tray
Next, click on the Change date and time settings to open Date and
Time Window.
Here you can add up to two additional clocks .Enter time Zone and
Clock Display name.
Check the Show this clock box to enable the clock.
Click OK.
To dock half size window on Right Side of Screen:
Mouse Action: Drag the Window to Right
Keyboard Action: Press Win + Right Arrow

Find out How Healthy Your Battery is on Your Laptop


Windows 7 has a feature through which we can find out exactly how
much battery you are actually getting from your Laptop battery, i.e.
its efficiency, maximum charge potential.
Its a well-known fact that as the age of lithium battery increases its
charging capacity decreases and it wont charge to its full potential
as when its new. We can find out exactly how much the battery of
laptop is giving now. We can use the powercfg -energy to find out
how health your battery is.
1. Open elevated command prompt by typing "cmd" in your start
menu & opening it with administrator privileges.
2. Type powercfg energy into the command prompt & press
Enter.
3. The command enables tracing for 60 seconds & would collect all
the data after observing the system behavior.

4. After analysis it would generate a report002E

Windows 7 Tool: Problem Steps Recorder


One of the most troublesome issues of troubleshooting is to find out
exactly how it happened and for what. Obviously, some processes are
non-recoverable. For them you cannot repeat the process and risk
hardware just because a troubleshooter wasnt able to understand
where it had error. Here is a wonderful tool for Windows 7. A feature
new to Windows 7, called Problem Steps Recorder looks to be the
missing tool for documenting where it all goes wrong.
The tool is just an advanced version of the screen capture software
but with other in- depth functionalities. It is kind of an automated
Print Screen plus background documenting all the mouse clicks, key
strokes and gathering some technical reading material, which are
stored and saved as the results.
You get them stored in a zipped MHTML report page which can be
sent off directly to the help desk.
How to Use Problem Steps Recorder
Go to Start Menu -> Run.
Type and select psr.exe and ENTER.
Windows 7: Tips & Tricks 72 | P a g e

MHT document would contain all the screenshots recorded at


particular events.
Apart

Rename Multiple Files @ Same time


Have a good number of files in your drive to rename? It gives plenty
of time to rename all by one. Although you can save some time if you
follow the steps to rename all files @ a go given below:
Step 1: Open the folder where you have all the files you wish to
rename (that sounds pretty obvious!)
Step 2: Select the files you wish to rename
Step 3: Press F2 (Dell users press Fn + F2) or right click any one of
the file in your selection and select rename option. Keep all the files
are selected.
Step 4: Rename one of the file amongst your selection. Windows 7:
Tips & Step 5: You are done. All files have been renamed with a
counter value different in each one of them.
This trick can be used to rename multiple Files like Images of a
particular occasion, files of particular genre etc.

Twenty Windows 7 Keyboard Shortcuts


From Desktop
Windows Key
Windows]
Windows Key
Windows Key
Windows Key
versions too)
Windows Key
Windows Key
versions as well)
Windows Key
Windows Key
Windows Key
Windows Key
OneNote]
Windows Key

+ Tab = Aero [press Tab to cycle between


+ E = Windows Explorer is launched.
+ R = Run Command is launched.
+ F = Search (which is there in previous Windows
+ X = Mobility Center
+ L = Lock Computer (It is there from the earlier
+
+
+
+

U = Ease of Access
P = Projector
T = Cycle Super Taskbar Items
S = OneNote Screen Clipping Tool [requires

+ M = Minimize All Windows

Windows Key + D = Show/Hide Desktop


Windows Key + Up = Maximize Current Window
Windows Key + Down = Restore Down / Minimize Current
Windows
Windows Key + Left = Tile Current Window to the Left
Windows Key + Right = Tile Current Windows to the Right
[Continue pressing the Left and Right keys to rotate the window as
well]
Windows Key + # = Quicklaunch
Windows Key + = = Magnifier
From Windows Explorer
Alt + Up = Go up one level
Alt

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