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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Useful Windows Tips Tweaks

Next time you need to launch more than one program from your Programs menu (Start/All Programs), hold down your SHIFT key while you click the program’s icon. The application will launch, but you won’t lose the Programs menu and have to start all over.
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Do you ever wonder how many files are in a folder? Right-click the folder and choose “Properties” (or Alt+double left-click).
Look down where it says “Contains” to find out how many files and folders are in it.
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Need to shut down two or three open programs quickly, but leave the rest running? Hold down the CTRL key as you click their buttons on the taskbar. Then, right-click (still holding down the CTRL key) one of those depressed buttons and select Close from the resulting menu.
Note that you can also minimize, maximize, restore, cascade, or tile these windows using this technique. Cool huh?
Have you ever needed to launch multiple programs? Normally, you hit the Start button, Programs, then select the program you want to run. Once that one starts, you go back through and repeat the process for the next program. Well, here’s a better way.
Next time you need to launch more than one program from your Programs menu, hold down your SHIFT key while you click the program’s icon. The application will launch, but you won’t lose the Programs menu and have to start all over.
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Are you having trouble when you try to highlight text? Put your cursor at the point where you want to start highlighting (selecting) the text.
Then hold down your SHIFT key and use your up / down arrows. You’ll find when you hold down an arrow that the text scrolls (and highlights) by at a much more manageable rate.




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