Ctrl+Shift+> :: Increase selected text in increments like the drop down font menu Ctrl+Shift+< :: Decrease selected text in increments like the drop down font menu
Ctrl+] :: Increase selected text one point
Ctrl+[ :: Decrease selected text one point
Sift + F3 :: Change case of the letters
Ctrl+Shift+W :: Underline words but not spaces
Ctrl+Shift+D :: Double underline text
Ctrl+E :: Center a paragraph
Ctrl+J :: Justify a paragraph
Ctrl+L :: Left align a paragraph
Ctrl+M :: Indent a paragraph
from the left Ctrl+T :: Create a hanging indent
Keyboard ShortcutsWhen speed counts, the keyboard is still king. Almost all the actions and commands you can perform with a mouse you can perform faster using combinations of keys on your keyboard. These simple keyboard shortcuts can get you where you want to go faster than several clicks of a mouse. You'll work faster on spreadsheets and similar documents, too, because you won't lose your place switching back and forth between mouse and keys. HERE ARE SOME OF THE MOST USEFUL KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS:
- Copy - CTRL+C
-Cut - CTRL+X
- Paste - CTRL+V
- Undo - CTRL+Z
- Delete - DELETE
Delete selected item permanently without placing the item in the Recycle Bin - SHIFT+DELETE
- Copy selected item - CTRL while dragging an item- Create shortcut to selected item - CTRL+SHIFT while dragging an item- Move the insertion point to the beginning of the next word
- CTRL+RIGHT ARROW- Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous word - CTRL+LEFT ARROW- Move the insertion point to the beginning of the next paragraph - CTRL+DOWN ARROW- Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous paragraph - CTRL+UP ARROW Highlight a block of text. CTRL+SHIFT with any of the arrow keysSelect more than one item
in a window or on the desktop, or select text within a document. SHIFT with any of the arrow keys- Select all - CTRL+A- V
iew properties for the selected item - ALT+ENTER- Close the active item, or quit the active program - ALT+F4- Opens the shortcut menu for the active window - ALT+SPACEBAR- Close the active document in programs that allow you to have multiple documents open simultaneously - CTRL+F4 - Switch between open items - ALT+TAB- Cycle through items in the order they were opened - ALT+ESC- Display the shortcut menu for the selected item - SHIFT+F10- Display the System menu for the active window - ALT+SPACEBAR - Display the Start menu - CTRL+ESC- Display the corresponding menu - ALT+Underlined letter in a menu name- Carry out the corresponding command - Underlined letter in a command name on an open menu- Open the next menu to the right, or open a submenu - RIGHT ARROW- Open the next menu to the left, or close a submenu - LEFT ARROW- V
iew the folder one level up in My Computer or Windows Explorer - BACKSPACE- Cancel the current task - ESC- SHIFT when you insert a CD into the C
D-ROM drive Prevent the C
D from automatically playing.
FUNCTIONAL KEYS:
- Rename selected item - F2- Search for a file or folder - F3- Display the Address bar list in My Computer or Windows Explorer - F4- Refresh the active window - F5- Cycle through screen elements in a window or on the desktop - F6- Activate the menu bar in the active program - F10
USE THESE KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS FIR DIALOG BOXES:
- Move forward through tabs - CTRL+TAB- Move backward through tabs - CTRL+SHIFT+TAB- Move forward through options - TAB- Move backward through options - SHIFT+TAB- Carry out the corresponding command or select the corresponding option - ALT+Underlined letter- Carry out the command for the active option or button - ENTER- Select or clear the check box if the active option is a check box - SPACEBAR- Open a folder one level up if a folder is selected in the Save As or Open dialog box - BACKSPACEIf you have a Microsoft Natural Keyboard, or any other compatible keyboard that includes the Windows logo key and the Application key , you can use these keyboard shortcuts:- Display or hide the Start menu.
- Display the System Properties dialog box: +BREAK
- Show the desktop: +D
- Minimize all windows: +M
- Restores minimized windows: +Shift +M
- Open My Computer: +E
- Search for a file or folder: +F
- Search for computers: CTRL+ F
- Display Windows Help: +F1
- Lock your computer if you are connected to a network domain, or switch users if you are not connected to a network domain: + L
- Open the Run dialog box: +R
- Open Utility Manager: +U HELPFUL ACCESSIBILITY KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS:
- Switch FilterKeys on and off: Right SHIFT for eight seconds
- Switch High Contrast on and off : Left ALT + Left SHIFT + PRINT SCREEN
- Switch MouseKeys on and off : Left ALT + Left SHIFT + NUM LOCK
- Switch StickyKeys on and off : SHIFT five times
- Switch ToggleKeys on and off : NUM LOCK for five seconds
- Open Utility Manager : +U
KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS YOU CAN USE WITH WINDOWS EXPLORER:
- Display the bottom of the active window: END
- Display the top of the active window: HOME
- Display all subfolders under the selected folder: NUM LOCK + ASTERISK on numeric keypad (*)
- Display the contents of the selected folder: NUM LOCK + PLUS SIGN on numeric keypad (+)
- Collapse the selected folder: NUM LOCK + MINUS SIGN on numeric keypad (-)
- Collapse current selection if it's expanded, or select parent folder: LEFT ARROW
- Display current selection if it's collapsed, or select first subfolder: RIGHT ARROW
Windows XP Shortcuts and Tips Windows XP is an operating system introduced in 2001 by Microsoft. The "XP" in Windows XP stands for "eXPerience" USE THE MENU KEY TO INSTEAD OF RIGHT CLICKING:Besides the Windows key, most keyboards have a Menu key, which mimics a right-click on your mouse. On most keyboards it is located on the right side of the keyboard between the windows key and the CTRL key. 1. Select My Computer on your desktop.2. Press the Menu key on your keyboard. You will see a menu pop up, that is the same as if you right-clicked on My Computer.MAKE FONTS SHARPER USING CLEARTYPE:With Windows XP you can greatly improve their clarity, especially if you are using a LCD monitor. Microsoft's ClearType technology smooths all fonts of all sizes. To enable ClearType: 1. Click Start, choose Control Panel, and then select Appearance and Themes.2. Double-click the Display icon, then the Appearance tab, and then Effects. 3. Select ClearType from the list. Click under the Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts check box. 4. Click OK, and then click OK again. Your fonts should appear significantly sharper, smoother and clearer.PLACE YOUR MOST USED PROGRAMS NEAR THE TOP OF THE START MENU:You can place your favorite application that you frequently use at the top of the Start menu for easier access. 1. Right-click the link to your favorite program on the Start Menu and select Pin to Start Menu.2. The program will be moved permanently to the top part of the list, just below your browser and e-mail programs. CREATE A SHUTDOWN SHORTCUT:You can create a desktop shortcut to quickly shutdown or restart your PC. 1. Right click an empty area of the desktop or folder where you wish to create the shortcut.2. Click New then Shortcut.3. For the location of the shortcut, enter shutdown -s -t 01 for a shutdown command or shutdown -r -t 01 for a restart4. Click Next to and give your shortcut an appropriate name like Shutdown or Restart5. Click Finish.CAPTURE SCREENSHOTS:Windows XP ships with a screen-capture utility that is attached to the PRINT SCREEN key on your keyboard. This is a handy utility if you want to take a picture of all or part of your screen.
Pressing the PRINT SCREEN key will capture the entire desktop to your clipboard, ready to be pasted int an application.
Pressing ALT+PRINT SCREEN will grab only the currently active window on the desktop.
To use these captured images, you will need to open an image-editing program like Photoshop or MS Paint and paste the image into a new file using CTRL+V.RENAME A SERIES OF FILES:When you download photos from your digital camera, they often have unrecognizable names. You can rename several similar files at once with the following procedure. This also works for renaming other types of files. 1. Open the My Pictures folder. (Click Start, and then click My Pictures.) Or open another folder containing files that you want to rename.2. Select the files you want to rename. If the files you want are not adjacent in the file list, press and hold CTRL, and then click each item to select it.3. On the File menu, click Rename. 4. Type the new name, and then press ENTER. All of the files in the series will be named in sequence using the new name you type. For example, if you type Birthday, the first will be named Birthday and subsequent files in the series will be named Birthday (1), Birthday (2), and so on. To specify the starting number for the series, type the starting number in parentheses after the new file name. The files in the series will be numbered in sequence starting with the number you type. For example, if you type Birthday (10), the other files will be named Birthday (11), Birthday (12), and so on.ADD AN ITEM TO THE "SEND TO" MENU:When you right-click on an item you will see the Send To menu. This menu allows you to send the item to a program, printer, or even e-mail it. You can create a new shortcut on the Send To menu, for example, one that sends a file to a frequently-used folder. Here's how: 1. Open My Computer, and double-click the drive where Windows is installed, which is usually drive C.2. Double-click the Documents and Settings folder, and then double-click the folder for a particular user, in this case it is probably your user name.3. Double-click the Send To folder. The Send To folder is hidden by default. If it is hidden, click Tools, click Folder Options, and then click Show hidden files and folders.4. On the File menu, point to New, and then click Shortcut.5. Follow the instructions to create a shortcut to whatever application or folder you want to send the item to.Now, when you right-click a file, and click Send To, the shortcut to the item you selected will be an option.LOCK YOUR DESKTOP:Press the Windows Key and the L key (WinKey+L) at the same time to lock the work station immediately.Additionally, you can create a new shortcut with the following command line: rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStationCopy the new shortcut to your Quick Launch bar and you have one click access to locking the desktop.HOW TO FIND MY IP ADDRESS:
Some time you need to know the IP address of your computer. This might happen if you are working with your Internet Service Provider troubleshooting a problem.
1. Click the Start menu and click Run.
2. Type cmd in the box and click OK. Another window appears.
3. Type "ipconfig /all" without the quotes. Your IP address is on the line labeled IP address.. in the listing.
4. Press Enter.
POINT EXPLORER TO ANY FOLDER/DRIVE YOU LIKE:
Create a shortcut for the Windows Explorer's properties, change the path and switches in the target:C:\windows\explorer.exe /n,/e,c:\ to open Explorer in the root of c: drive
C:\windows\explorer.exe /n,/e,d:\ to open in the root of d: drive
C:\windows\explorer.exe /n,/e,c:\My Work\My Test\ to open Explorer in the root of c: drive
Jun 18, 2008
How to Make Windows Vista Less Annoying
Make UAC Less Annoying
Keep Windows Update from Rebooting Automatically
Stop Losing the Sleep Button to Windows Update
Disable the Irritating Click Sounds
Use Compatibility Mode to Make Applications Work
Fix File Copying Problems
Stop Hard Drive Grinding
Stop the Annoying Pop-up Notification Balloons
Restore Missing Icons
Keep Windows Update from Rebooting Automatically
Stop Losing the Sleep Button to Windows Update
Disable the Irritating Click Sounds
Use Compatibility Mode to Make Applications Work
Fix File Copying Problems
Stop Hard Drive Grinding
Stop the Annoying Pop-up Notification Balloons
Restore Missing Icons
Install Windows XP on Your Pre-Installed Windows Vista Computer
The question I am asked most often is "How do I install a dual-boot with Windows XP on my new Windows Vista computer?" The answer is that it's not that difficult, it's just very time consuming, and you need to own a copy of Windows XP.
Note that you should not attempt this if you aren't ready to troubleshoot any problems that might occur.
The first issue we encounter is that computers with pre-installed operating systems take up the entire drive. Luckily Microsoft included the Shrink volume feature in Vista, so we can easily shrink the Vista partition down to make room for XP.
Open the Computer Management panel, which you can find under Administrative tools or by right-clicking the Computer item in the start menu and choosing Manage. Find the Disk Management item in the list and select that.
Now we'll shrink our volume down by right-clicking on the main hard drive and choosing Shrink Volume.
Now you can choose the size that you want to shrink, which really means you are choosing the size that you want your XP partition to be. Whatever you do, don't just use the default. I chose roughly 10gb by entering 10000 into the amount.
The next step might be confusing, because we need to change the cd-rom drive that's invariably taking up D: at the moment, because we want to use D: for the Windows XP partition, but it's already taken by the cd-rom drive. If you skip this step than XP will install onto the E: drive, which isn't the end of the world, but it's not quite as tidy.
Right-click on the cd-rom drive in the list and choose Change Drive Letter and Paths from the menu.
Now we'll change the CD drive to use E: by selecting that in the drop-down.
Now we can create a new partition for XP to live on and make sure that the drive letter is set the way we want. If you do not create a partition now the XP install will do so automatically, but it's easier and cleaner to do it this way.
Right-click on the Unallocated free space area and then select New Simple Volume from the menu.
Follow through the wizard and select whatever options you'd like, making sure to use D: as the drive letter.
Now you will need to close out of disk management and reboot your computer. This is because we can't do the next step until we reboot. (you can try, but it won't work)
So we've come back from rebooting… open up Computer from the start menu and then right-click on the D: drive and select properties. Give your partition a meaningful name like "XP". It would be wise to name the C: drive to "Vista" at this point as well.
Now you'll want to pop your XP cd into the drive and boot off it. You may have to configure your BIOS to enable booting off the CD drive, or if your computer says something like "Hit Esc for boot menu" you might want to use that.
Once you come to the screen where you can choose the partition to install on, then choose either the unpartitioned space or the new partition you created. Whatever you do, don't try and install onto your Vista partition! See how much cleaner it is now that we've labeled each partition distinctly?
We'll assume XP is completely installed at this point, and you will have lost your ability to boot into Windows Vista, so we'll need to use the VistaBootPro utility to restore the Vista boot loader.
Download and install VistaBootPro from vistabootpro.org
During the install you'll be forced to install the .NET 2.0 framework. Open up VistaBootPRO and then click on the System Bootloader tab. Check the "Windows Vista Bootloader" and then "All Drives" radio buttons, and then click on the Install Bootloader button.
At this point, the Windows Vista bootloader is installed and you'll only be able to boot into Vista, but we'll fix that. Instead of manually doing the work, we'll just click the Diagnostics menu item and then choose Run Diagnostics from the menu.
This will scan your computer and then automatically fill in the XP version.. click on the "Manage OS Entries" tab and then click in the textbox for Rename OS Entry, and name it something useful like "Windows XP" or "The Windows That Works"
Click the Apply Updates button and then reboot your computer… you should see your shiny new boot manager with both operating systems in the list!
If you get an error saying "unable to find ntldr" when trying to boot XP, you'll need to do the following:
Find the hidden files ntldr and ntdetect.com in the root of your Vista drive and copy them to the root of your XP drive.
If you can't find the files there, you can find them in the \i386\ folder on your XP install cd
This is a critical piece of information: Windows XP will be installed on the D: drive, even in Windows XP… so you'll need to keep that in mind when tweaking your system.
You can share information between the drives, but I wouldn't recommend messing with the other operating system's partition too much… it might get angry and bite you. Or screw up your files. What I do recommend is that you store most of your files on a third drive shared between the operating systems… you could call that partition "Data".
I'm going to write a number of follow-up articles dealing with all of the issues with dual-boot systems, so subscribe to the feed for updates.
Note that you should not attempt this if you aren't ready to troubleshoot any problems that might occur.
The first issue we encounter is that computers with pre-installed operating systems take up the entire drive. Luckily Microsoft included the Shrink volume feature in Vista, so we can easily shrink the Vista partition down to make room for XP.
Open the Computer Management panel, which you can find under Administrative tools or by right-clicking the Computer item in the start menu and choosing Manage. Find the Disk Management item in the list and select that.
Now we'll shrink our volume down by right-clicking on the main hard drive and choosing Shrink Volume.
Now you can choose the size that you want to shrink, which really means you are choosing the size that you want your XP partition to be. Whatever you do, don't just use the default. I chose roughly 10gb by entering 10000 into the amount.
The next step might be confusing, because we need to change the cd-rom drive that's invariably taking up D: at the moment, because we want to use D: for the Windows XP partition, but it's already taken by the cd-rom drive. If you skip this step than XP will install onto the E: drive, which isn't the end of the world, but it's not quite as tidy.
Right-click on the cd-rom drive in the list and choose Change Drive Letter and Paths from the menu.
Now we'll change the CD drive to use E: by selecting that in the drop-down.
Now we can create a new partition for XP to live on and make sure that the drive letter is set the way we want. If you do not create a partition now the XP install will do so automatically, but it's easier and cleaner to do it this way.
Right-click on the Unallocated free space area and then select New Simple Volume from the menu.
Follow through the wizard and select whatever options you'd like, making sure to use D: as the drive letter.
Now you will need to close out of disk management and reboot your computer. This is because we can't do the next step until we reboot. (you can try, but it won't work)
So we've come back from rebooting… open up Computer from the start menu and then right-click on the D: drive and select properties. Give your partition a meaningful name like "XP". It would be wise to name the C: drive to "Vista" at this point as well.
Now you'll want to pop your XP cd into the drive and boot off it. You may have to configure your BIOS to enable booting off the CD drive, or if your computer says something like "Hit Esc for boot menu" you might want to use that.
Once you come to the screen where you can choose the partition to install on, then choose either the unpartitioned space or the new partition you created. Whatever you do, don't try and install onto your Vista partition! See how much cleaner it is now that we've labeled each partition distinctly?
We'll assume XP is completely installed at this point, and you will have lost your ability to boot into Windows Vista, so we'll need to use the VistaBootPro utility to restore the Vista boot loader.
Download and install VistaBootPro from vistabootpro.org
During the install you'll be forced to install the .NET 2.0 framework. Open up VistaBootPRO and then click on the System Bootloader tab. Check the "Windows Vista Bootloader" and then "All Drives" radio buttons, and then click on the Install Bootloader button.
At this point, the Windows Vista bootloader is installed and you'll only be able to boot into Vista, but we'll fix that. Instead of manually doing the work, we'll just click the Diagnostics menu item and then choose Run Diagnostics from the menu.
This will scan your computer and then automatically fill in the XP version.. click on the "Manage OS Entries" tab and then click in the textbox for Rename OS Entry, and name it something useful like "Windows XP" or "The Windows That Works"
Click the Apply Updates button and then reboot your computer… you should see your shiny new boot manager with both operating systems in the list!
If you get an error saying "unable to find ntldr" when trying to boot XP, you'll need to do the following:
Find the hidden files ntldr and ntdetect.com in the root of your Vista drive and copy them to the root of your XP drive.
If you can't find the files there, you can find them in the \i386\ folder on your XP install cd
This is a critical piece of information: Windows XP will be installed on the D: drive, even in Windows XP… so you'll need to keep that in mind when tweaking your system.
You can share information between the drives, but I wouldn't recommend messing with the other operating system's partition too much… it might get angry and bite you. Or screw up your files. What I do recommend is that you store most of your files on a third drive shared between the operating systems… you could call that partition "Data".
I'm going to write a number of follow-up articles dealing with all of the issues with dual-boot systems, so subscribe to the feed for updates.
Jun 17, 2008
Rename the Recycle Bin
To change the name of the Recycle Bin desktop icon, open Regedit and go to:HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/CLSID/{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
and change the name "Recycle Bin" to whatever you want (don't type any quotes).
and change the name "Recycle Bin" to whatever you want (don't type any quotes).
No To All When Overwriting Files
When overwriting files in the Windows Explorer, there is an option for Yes To All.This would overwrite any files you would normally be prompted for.
To have No To All, simply hold down the Shift key while you click on the No option.
To have No To All, simply hold down the Shift key while you click on the No option.
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