Windows keyboard tricks

if you have msn explorer 6 what keystroke do u hit if u want to close an explorer window

I try and teach shortcuts in my intro classes as the mouse seems a bit cumbersome for some of the seniors. I found a .doc for your palm pilot that seems to be a good refresher and will come in handy for me when I'm teaching.

Windows Shortcuts

Techie ..... isnt that abt. palm pilots?

Nope, it's a doc for your palm pilot. You'd need palm reader to read it and it is a listing of Windows Shortcuts for the keyboard.

in XP you could use:
logo+u to to some nice little utils

for all versions
logo+e gets you explorer
shift+F10 equals right clicking
ctrl-p will open printers dialog
PrintScreen will put your desktop on the clipboard, paste it right into mspaint.
ctrl+c copy
ctrl+x cut
ctrl+v paste
ctrl+z undo last change
alt+space gives you a shortcut to close window dialog box

in windows 95 you could try logo followed by escape (the start button is dotted now) press alt+- (alternate plus a minus). close the start button.

Ctrl+Alt+Delete. I remember when that used to be called "The Three-Fingered Salute..."
*sniff* Whatever happened to those crazy days? :(

If you’re at the dos prompt you can hold down ALT and enter any number between 0 and 255 to produce ASCII that isn’t on the keyboard. This doesn’t always work in windows depending on were you type it in. Rarely do password crackers check for characters such as Ó and Ù becides having an omega symbol in your password is just cool.

I agree :) Any non-alphanumeric ASCII is very cool :) How else to you think I spell Namárie?

It's a bit trickier on the lappie I'm using right now, cause there is no keypad (BTW, those numbers MUST be entered in the numeric keypad on the right of your keyboard!). So I'm stuck doing the Fn key + (Num Lk) and then ALT + (number)

Kinda cumbersome, but it gets it done.

Namárie,
--PhirePhreak

You guys probably already know this, but you can customize your own keyboard shortcuts. Right click on a short cut in your Start menu (or make a new shortcut), then go to 'Properties'. Under the 'Shortcut' tab, click in the 'Shortcut Key' text box to make it active. Now press the keyboard combo that you want to represent this particular shortcut and then click Ok. Ctrl-Alt-N for Netscape or whatever. I find that this saves you alot of time if you have a monsterous Program tree, since it's essentially one keyboard movement that generates instant results :) It can also be somewhat useful if you create a keyboard shortcut to a Shutdown or Restart shortcut instead of relying upon Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot out of a stubborn system freeze. Sometimes they respond, sometimes not. Depends on how badly your 'puter is determined to crash :)

One I use all the time is in Internet Explorer, typing "antionline" (without quotes) in the address bar and hitting alt+enter will yield http://www.antionline.com.

Only seems to work with .com addy's.