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[taleya.livejournal.com]

Working on some windows shorcuts - just a guide for the guys at work (poor mouse boys that they are)

so far I have...

Alt+Enter brings up properties for selected object
Control+escape brings up start menu

Win+D brings up the desktop
win+R brings up the run dialogue
Win+E is explorer
Win+M minimizes everything possible
Win+U is the utility manager for disabled people stuff
Win+F is windows find
Win+L locks the computer


Anyone else have any others?

Comments

[compwizrd.livejournal.com]

Ctrl-Shift-Esc brings up task manager

Ctrl-P prints(handy when the menus are hidden in IE/FireFox/Etc)

Plus, you can assign shortcuts to any program you want, on my machine, ctrl-alt-p pops up putty.

Win+L only works on XP, unfortunately.

[taleya.livejournal.com]

Aiming away from the usual control combos. They're at least aware of those ones...


oh dear christ they'd better be....

[zig-mover.livejournal.com]

Don't assume anything. Nobody at my workplace knows alt+tab and ctrl+tab.

Actually, I'm pretty sure most of them don't know that tab/shift+tab lets you go to the next/previous input.

Or CTRL+C, V, X, N good lord they don't know anything.

[jahbulon.livejournal.com]

I didn't know this one until very recently Ctrl-A, select all text in page. Very helpful when doing standard replies etc.

Ctrl-A! Ctrl-C! Ctrl-V! WORK DONE!!

[pisceandreamer.livejournal.com]

Dear lord, you just reminded me of one place I worked where someone walked in as I was alt-tabbing through things and said, "How did you do that!!?!?!?!? HOW? You have to show me!"

I should have known to run away right then and there.

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

Teach them "F1" and say "The rest is up to you, grasshopper."

[dmsalem00.livejournal.com]

Or some of the less educated ones where I work that freak out when you hit ctrl + N on their system b/c they think you've just closed the window they were working on.

[katyism.livejournal.com]

Win+L only locks in that one mode of XP (I forget the name, not the default) Whatever mine's in, it brings up a Logoff? prompt.

[jecook]

Work when it's in Domain mode. Not sure about Workgroup mode...

[brutalentropy.livejournal.com]

I think she's talking about Home vs Pro?

IIRC, Home does not offer fast user switching. I could be wrong though (never used home, only pro)

[jecook]

It does.

What does not offer I could conceivably fill a post about, but then, "All OSs suck".

[brutalentropy.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

I have had many love/hate relationships in my time.

The one with computers is by far the worst.

[shifuimam.livejournal.com]

Win+L locks both classic logon and the welcome screen.

HOWEVER using Win+L with the classic (domain-style) logon is dangerous - there are scripts out there that can very easily steal your password when you use this method and then log back in. Better to do Ctrl+Alt+Del and then hit Lock Computer if you're concerned about password security.

[taleya.livejournal.com]

oh, and start-run-taskmgr brings up the task manager. as most of our customers are running XP and have the mental capacity of a lobotomised chimp, we've found that one easier to use :P

[jahbulon.livejournal.com]

You never know what a customer is going to find difficult.. Customers are definitely not consistently stupid.

[abstrak-tokatl.livejournal.com]

is there not a section of your control panel that lists them all?

[jjjiii]

Alt+PrintScreen = screen capture of active window
Ctrl+Shift+Esc = Task Manager
Alt+F4 = close active window

[jcaswell.livejournal.com]

Alt+PrintScreen = screen capture of active window

Dammit! I needed that one on Thursday, and couldn't for the life of me remember which it was. I tried shift and control - alt escaped me for some reason.

I'm an idiot.

[jjjiii]

By itself, PrintScreen will copy the entire monitor screen to the copy buffer, as well.

[jcaswell.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I use that one a lot :)

[shifuimam.livejournal.com]

Don't forget all the text-editing ones...

Ctrl+V paste from clipboard
Ctrl+C copy to clipboard
Ctrl+X cut to clipboard (copies and then removes from document/image/etc)
Ctrl+Z undo last operation
Ctrl+Y redo last operation
Ctrl+arrow hops from word to word in text, making it easier to move your cursor to a particular point

[ravenshrinkery.livejournal.com]

Isn't there a keyboard combination that with the appropriate reghack causes a WinXP box to BSOD? If I remember, it was something like Ctra+Alt+F11. Produces something like Manually_Initiated_Crash. For users too dumb to find the Start button or the power button on the tower, this makes sense. This is perhaps the safest configuration for them to just yank the power cord.

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

What, no-one's posted Shift-F10 yet? For shame...