the stranger Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 I'm sure many others like myself are self-taught computer users. And every once in a while somebody will show me a trick that I didn't know, which usually is something obvious. Anyway, here's some examples... Right click on the taskbar and tile the windows (I use to actually sit and manually size two windows until my buddy showed me this one...) Tab to go to next entry box...(he showed me that one , too. This is probably not even windows, but some typing tip I missed...i skipped that class...it was get high or go to typing...in 10th grade, that's not even a choice. ) ctrl+v = paste....duh...can you believe I didn't know some of this stuff? ---- What other kind of obvious stuff am I missing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dak Lander Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 Use Windowz Paint to resize pictures without needing another program. Open Paint and the picture. Select Image and then Stretch/Skew. In the Stretch windows input some %age you want to resize the picture. Make sure to use the same number is each window or the ration will not be correct. Our Joint "When you come slam bang up against trouble, it never looks half as bad if you face up to it." The Duke... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOOKUMDANO Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 Of course, the most useful music tip is that thing posted here a few years ago where it was shown Windows is a full blown "professional" polyphonic synthesizer and loop machine (or something). That one was hilarious. Wish I could remember where that info was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dman Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 Right click in the taskbar select "new toolbar",when prompted make a folder in My documents or wherever name it SC and drag your desktop shortcuts into the SC folder. Now your shortcuts will appear in the taskbar folder. I do this with the programs I don't use all the time, it cleans up the desktop but keeps them at reach. I also create a toolbar folder for the manuals of the programs I use most often so if I want to look up something it's right there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billster Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 Right click on the start button for search and explore choices instead of the regular menu. Turn the monitor upside down so the menu bar is across the top and pretend you are using a Mac ... until Windows crashes Buy my CD on CD Baby! Bill Hartzell - the website MySpace?!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sp3nc3r Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 Originally posted by Billster: Right click on the start button for search and explore choices instead of the regular menu. Turn the monitor upside down so the menu bar is across the top and pretend you are using a Mac ... until Windows crashes ROTFLMAO.... Aah. A great way to end a Friday afternoon. Thanks for the chuckle, Billster! Cheers! Spencer "I prefer to beat my opponents the old-fashioned way....BRUTALLY!!!!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenElevenShadows Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 Originally posted by the stranger: Right click on the taskbar and tile the windows (I use to actually sit and manually size two windows until my buddy showed me this one...)I didn't know that! Thanks! On Mozilla, I use to make the text larger, and to make it smaller. Control A highlights all the text. Control C is "Copy" Control V is, as you pointed out, "Paste". Ken Lee Photography - photos and books Eleven Shadows ambient music The Mercury Seven-cool spacey music Linktree to various sites Instagram Nightaxians Video Podcast Eleven Shadows website Ken Lee Photography Pinterest Page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the stranger Posted June 17, 2005 Author Share Posted June 17, 2005 Another good one is the quick launch. I figured out how to get stuff in there back in win98, and it was the first thing I did when I got my XP machine. Just ask Phait! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phait Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 Huh? I really wish you could tab to form fields in OS X - you can't and it just annoys me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theblue1 Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 Windows-key-D (in XP) minimizes all windows at once (revealing the desktop) and hitting it again pops them all back up. But if you minimize them all and then hit Alt-Tab only the last window open will reappear. Holding the Alt-Tab combo for a moment will bring up the task-switcher utility. Alt-F4 will close the current program group. Ctrl-F4 closes only the current window (in, say, a multi-window program. Ctrl-Tab will change windows inside a multi-window application. The silly thing is that there ought to be ONE place in Windows where you can look up all those shortcuts. bookmark these: news.google.com | m-w dictionary | wikipedia encyclopedia | Columbia Encyclopedia TK Major / one blue nine | myspace.com/onebluenine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billster Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 Phait, huh? to you too. You can tab through form fields in OSX. What programs are you talking about? I tab all day in Mozilla and Digital Performer. I would have tendonitis from all the mousing if I couldn't use keyboard commands in DP. Buy my CD on CD Baby! Bill Hartzell - the website MySpace?!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Roberts Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 Here is an easy one, often overlooked. If you have a window full of file folders open and you want to find a file that starts with the letter "S", (or any letter) instead of scrolling, just type "s" Takes you to all the "esses" Bill Roberts Precision Mastering -----------Since 1975----------- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robman2 Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 (cue) The voice of Cher's Grandad in Moonstruck "I'm so confused" Label on the reverb, inside 1973 Ampeg G-212: "Folded Line Reverberation Unit" Manufactured by beautiful girls in Milton WIS. under controlled atmosphere conditions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phait Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 Bill - I can't tab to form fields in any web browser. It'll just tab to the URL bar or the main window or frames (if used). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billster Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 Phait, place the cursor in the first field using the mouse, then tab from there... Buy my CD on CD Baby! Bill Hartzell - the website MySpace?!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phait Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 Actually what I forgot to say was I cannot tab to the form buttons. The fields, yeah. I meant the buttons. I can do this in Windows, not OS X. In Windows I usually tab to the submit button and hit space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billster Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 Yeah, that's vaguely annoying... Many programs default to use the "enter" key on the extended portion of the keyboard (the numerical pad) if the carriage return (typewriter reference! ) key is not committed to that function (like when you can use it in text boxes). Buy my CD on CD Baby! Bill Hartzell - the website MySpace?!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mars_dup1 Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 Originally posted by Billster: Turn the monitor upside down so the menu bar is across the top and pretend you are using a Mac ... until Windows crashes Right click on the taskbar and unlock. Drag it to the top of the screen. Right click on the desktop, take off "auto arrand", put your "My Computer" top right, Recycle Bin bottom. More like a Mac. Download "Object Dock". Even more like a Mac. Thanks for the "New Toolbar" tip - cool! You can do something similar in OS X - can't remember the details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Roberts Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 I deleted my recycle bin. If I delete anything, it is toast. Another annoying folder that I got "rid" of. Bill Roberts Precision Mastering -----------Since 1975----------- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanmass Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 Here is my list of must quickies; shift + DELETE key to bypass the recycle bin ( a bit less risky than nuking recycle. Use CNTRL on Windows or the APPLE key on mac, command transfer. Z-undo X-cut (remove and copy to ram) C-copy (duplicate selected text/file) V-paste B-bold I-italicize U-underline TAB generally will ALWAYS move you to the next open 'space', be it spreadsheet, online form, selection boxes, etc. SHIFT-TAB will move you BACKWARDS through the same things (mac or PC, btw) In windows explorer, CTRL CLICK allows you to select NON CONCURRENT files (i.e. this one, that one from a list) SHIFT and the up down arrows will allow you to select chunks of concurrent files, i.e. you search for all excel files (*.xls) and click the top one, hold shift, then arrow down to the last one you want. MUCH better than mousing in general. There are so many things like this, and most are worth learning. No matter how cool a mouse/trackball/pointer is, and keystroke is ALWAYS fast in my experience Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techristian Posted June 19, 2005 Share Posted June 19, 2005 On Mozilla, I use to make the text larger, and to make it smaller.Thanks for that. It even works under Linux. Dan http://musicinit.com/pvideos.html TEACHMEDRUMS.COM My Music Videos RED PILL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polyt Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 Originally posted by Bill Roberts: I deleted my recycle bin. If I delete anything, it is toast. Another annoying folder that I got "rid" of. Instead of this approach I use Tweak UI, one of microsoft's "Powertoys" . Using that little prog you can get the recycle bin off your desktop (among many other things), though it still exists. Although it's rare, I have had to retrieve a trashed doc once or twice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Cole Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 In Internet Explorer, in the address bar, simply type the name of the website (an example- google) and press control enter. No need to type in the "www" or the ".com" There is no substitute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phait Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 Originally posted by Joe Cole: In Internet Explorer, in the address bar, simply type the name of the website (an example- google) and press control enter. No need to type in the "www" or the ".com" This works in other, safer browsers too... http://www.firefox.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fantasticsound Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 I know a lot of the typical shortcuts (all those mentioned on this page save for the quotes below). But some of you guys are killing me with useful commands! Originally posted by Ken/Eleven Shadows: I didn't know that! Thanks! On Mozilla, I use to make the text larger, and to make it smaller...I love this one already! I'm using a 21" monitor at work. With my wonderful vision (knock wood!) I can see small type, but unless I need to see more of the, "big picture," why not make it that much easier to read? Thanks, Ken! Originally posted by theblue1: Windows-key-D (in XP) minimizes all windows at once (revealing the desktop) and hitting it again pops them all back up. But if you minimize them all and then hit Alt-Tab only the last window open will reappear. Holding the Alt-Tab combo for a moment will bring up the task-switcher utility. Alt-F4 will close the current program group. Ctrl-F4 closes only the current window (in, say, a multi-window program. Ctrl-Tab will change windows inside a multi-window application. The silly thing is that there ought to be ONE place in Windows where you can look up all those shortcuts. I have been interested in finding these commands for some time, but didn't put in the effort to determine if they existed. I will use these every day, and many times each day, at work. Thanks, the blue one! And I agree, there should be a page of shortcuts available by a.. well.. a shortcut. Originally posted by deanmass: ...shift + DELETE key to bypass the recycle bin ( a bit less risky than nuking recycle.Damn, Dean! I've just about cried over having to delete items, then delete 'em again. I think I can decide if something might need to be brought back from the recycle bin. Thanks for showing us how to make the rest of our junk just disappear. These are all commands I'm committing to memory and will use all the time! THANKS, PROFUSELY!! Oh, and Billster, Windows has had the capability to put the toolbar at the top since at least Win98. (I know. One of our less technically apt producers had a bad habit of moving the toolbar by accident. She finally just left it up top. ) I began putting mine up top with my new machine, two months ago. Now that the computer moved from window to window at something faster than a snail's pace (old computer was a 600MHz Pentium III with little RAM), I found myself constantly rolling the mouse up and down between windows, information and, especially confusing, Firefox tabs. Putting the tray at the top let me switch windows with less effort. It may seem silly, but it really has saved a lot of wear and tear on my wrists. It's easiest to find me on Facebook. Neil Bergman Soundclick fntstcsnd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dylan Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 Hitting the ESC and CTRL key will bring up the Windows Start Menu. Of course, if you have a Windows key on your keyboard then you don't need this, but most of the IBM notebooks that I've worked on didn't so this can come in handy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Flier Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 Originally posted by fantasticsound: Originally posted by Ken/Eleven Shadows: On Mozilla, I use to make the text larger, and to make it smaller...I love this one already! I'm using a 21" monitor at work. With my wonderful vision (knock wood!) I can see small type, but unless I need to see more of the, "big picture," why not make it that much easier to read? Thanks, Ken! In both Mozilla/Firefox and IE, you can also make screen fonts larger and smaller by holding down the key and scrolling the scroll wheel on your mouse forward or backward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip OKeefe Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 I see it's your week for the brain Lee. I was just about to post that. I use Cntrl / wheel to do the same thing. Works great, and as I get older, and my close up eyesight gets worse, it's becoming a needed feature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylver Posted June 21, 2005 Share Posted June 21, 2005 I had to read though to see if anyone knew the Scroll thing too. Apple key + and - work in OSX. Right click on a link to bring up a context menu that will allow you to open a new window in Firefox and IE. Scroll wheel click on a link to open it in a new tab in Firefox. CTRL right and left arrows let you jump though a line word by word. CTRL up and down arrows skip to the next line, then to the next paragraph when you hit the arrow a second time. CTRL end and CTRL home let you jump to the beginning and end of the document. I really don't know what to put here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip OKeefe Posted June 21, 2005 Share Posted June 21, 2005 Right click on a link to bring up a context menu that will allow you to open a new window in Firefox and IE. In Win XP, you can Cntrl / click on the link and it will open in a new window. My only real beef with Firefox is that it doesn't remember all of my opened tabs... if I have to reboot for some reason, I have to manually reopen Craig's forum, my forum, Google, www.m-w.com , etc. (I always have multiple browser tabs and / or windows open simultaneously). If I've missed something that will allow me to do this with Mozilla, please let me know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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