Sunday, April 09, 2006

Useful Unusual Stuff

I found out a few cool keyboard shortcuts for windows.Check it out.Here goes:
Shortcuts using Windows key:
Pressing the Windows key alone shows the start menu.
1).Win+E--->Opens Windows Explorer.
2).Win+R--->Opens Windows Run Window.
3).Win+U--->Opens Windows Utility Manager(I found it cool!).
4).Win+D--->Shows Desktop(Press it immediatly to return to window you were last seeing).
5).Win+F--->Opens Windows Find Folders and Files.
6).Win+B--->Makes the active window inactive(Pressing Alt+Tab would make it active again)
7).Win+M--->Shows Desktop(Press Alt+Tab to go to the window you were seeing)

Micellanious Shortcuts:
1).Alt+Tab--->Allows you to cycle through different open programs
2).Alt+F4--->Closes the active window.
3).Ctrl+Alt+Del--->Shows Windows Task Manager(Pressing Ctrl+Shift+Esc too does the same)This is popularly known as "The Three Finger Salute".
4).Ctrl+P--->Print.
5).Ctrl+Y--->Redo.
6).Ctrl+U--->Under-Line.
7).Ctrl+I--->Italics.
8).Ctrl+A--->Select All.
9).Ctrl+S--->Save.
10).Ctrl+F--->Find Within the active window.
11).Ctrl+Z--->Undo.
12).Ctrl+X--->Cut.
13).Ctrl+C--->Copy.
14).Ctrl+V--->Paste.
15).Ctrl+B--->Bold.
16).Ctrl+Home--->Goes to the begginning of the document.
17).Ctrl+End--->Goes to ending of document.
18).Ctrl+Tab--->Allows to cycle througe Tabs.
19).Ctrl+F4--->Allows to close the selected tab.(Possible only in certain places Eg.,Winamp,Opera where various tabs are opened in a single window etc.)

How to take Screen Shots:
Press Print Screen button in your keyboard(top right corner).Then go to Paint(By going to run and typing "mspaint" or Start--->Programs--->Accessories--->Paint)Here press Ctrl+V or Go to Edit--->Paste.

To take only the active Window (without task bar),Instead of pressing Print screen button alone, Press Alt+Print Screen Button and do the same as mentioned above.

So...That's it for now.

4 comments:

Sundar said...

Amazing that you composed that fully by yourself!!!

vinod kumar said...

Nice post there buddy.

I am sundar's friend.

Sundar said...

Rangu - poda vetti...ithu ellam oru posta da nayyia

Marc Z said...

Even I learnt something new: Ctrl+B!