Useful Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows Computers

While most of us are already aware of obvious keyboard shortcuts like “Alt+F4” and “Ctrl+C”, there are some obscure shortcuts which most of us tend to overlook. These keyboard shortcuts are not only useful for the average PC user but for advanced users as well. This article contains many such amazing keyboard shortcuts which if used properly could save a lot of time and effort. So let's get started.

Windows key+D: This shortcut is the keyboard equivalent of “Show the Desktop”. It is useful for quickly minimizing every open window when someone walks in and you are doing some private work.

Ctrl+Shift+Esc: This shortcut directly starts the task manager. While Alt+Ctrl+Del was used to bring out the Task Manager in Windows XP and earlier versions, in Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8 and Windows 7, it just brings up the lock this computer screen.

Ctrl+Click: This shortcut is useful for opening a link in a background tab. This is useful when you have to load a page without leaving the current one.

Alt+Print Screen: takes the screenshot of the current active window as opposed to just Print Screen which takes the screenshot of the entire screen.

Shift+Click for Yes to All and No to All: If you have a lot of dialog boxes asking yes and no question, just shift+click Yes or No on one to yes all or no all.

Ctrl+C on an error dialog box to copy its contents: Suppose your computer is giving an error message and you want to copy its contents to send to the support guy, what do you do? Just press Ctrl+C while the dialog box is highlighted and its contents will be copied to your clipboard.

Ctrl+T: This keyboard shortcut opens a new tab in internet browsers.

Ctrl+Shift+T: Reopens the last closed tab.

Ctrl+Shift+N: This shortcut opens a new incognito window in Google Chrome.

Ctrl+Shift+P: Opens a new private window in Mozilla Firefox.

Alt+Enter after writing the domain name in the address bar of your browser to insert .com automatically.

Shift+Enter inserts .net domain name extension.

Ctrl+W: This shortcut closes the current tab in your browser quickly.

Ctrl+Backspace: This shortcut deletes the last word you have typed. It is useful in case you typed in a wrong word and want to delete it quickly.

Ctrl+Left or Right Arrow key: This shortcut allows you to move the cursor one word at a time instead of the default one character at a time.

Ctrl++: This shortcut allows you to zoom in web pages in web browsers. Useful when text on a web page is too small to read properly. Ctrl+Scroll wheel can also zoom in documents, file thumbnails and icons in Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7 and Windows Vista.

Ctrl+-: This shortcut does the reverse of the previous shortcut.

Ctrl+0: Reset the webpage's zoom.

Windows key+M: Minimizes all the open windows.

Ctrl+L: This shortcut allows you to quickly jump to the address bar of your web browser.

Windows key+Pause/Break: Quickly open the system properties dialog box.

Ctrl+Shift+Delete: This shortcut opens the option to delete your browser's history, cookies, cache and other details that it stores while you browse the internet. This shortcut is extremely useful for the privacy conscious.

Windows Key+L: This shortcut lock your computer.

Ctrl+H: makes the history appear.

CTRL+B: Bold CTRL+U: Underline CTRL+I: Italic.

Alt+Select: This shortcut allows you to select rectangular blocks of text in Word processors, something that is not possible with simple select.

F2: Allows you to rename the selected file.

Holding Shift while inserting a device with removable storage prevents automatic run.

Ctrl+F: This keyboard shortcut opens the Find option in any program.

Ctrl+S: If you are working on a software and want to quickly save your progress, this shortcut will come in handy.

Ctrl+Home and Ctrl+End: Useful for quickly going to the top and bottom of a page.

Ctrl+P: Useful for printing the current page.

Space Bar: While viewing a web page in a browser, pressing space bar moves the page down.

Alt+Tab: Useful for quickly cycling between running applications. Press along with Shift to cycle backwards.

Ctrl+Tab: Cycle between tabs in your browser.

Ctrl+F5: Clears the cache and refreshes the current tab.

Shift+Right click: Open alternate right click options.

Alt+Double click: Open the file's properties. Alt+Enter can also be used for this.


These are some keyboard shortcuts that I found extremely useful.

If you know some more useful keyboard shortcuts, do mention them in the comments.

Free Up Or Clean RAM Using Notepad

System Speed: Sometimes the process which have executed but are not required by the OS are stored on the RAM. So, we can remove or free up the RAM with unused junk data to Speedup the System or processing speed.

 
We can clean the RAM just by using a Notepad application. 

This don't require any advanced software. The process to do so is as follows.

Open Notepad:

Type
FreeMem=Space(64000000)
Save it as “CleanRAM.vbs” on desktop

Note: Type the name of file along with inverted commas
Run the file and your RAM may be free.

Of course you can edit the code in the file for a greater “cleaning-progress”.

For example:
FreeMem=Space(1280000000)
FreeMem=Space(2560000000)
FreeMem=Space(5120000000)
FreeMem=Space(10240000000)

Shutdown Trick

Immediate rapid shut down window
while shutting down window.

open task manager(Ctr+Alt+Del),
Select shut down tab. and press ' Ctrl ' key while select Turn Off from dis tab.

Count 5 4 3 2 1 Voila!!! U r window will rapidly shut down.


Speed Up Ur Shut down !!

Start Regedit.

Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control.

Click on the "Control" Folder.
Select "WaitToKillServiceTimeout"
Right click on it and select Modify.

Set it a value lower than 2000 (Mine is set to 200).

&

Like previous versions of windows, it takes long time to restart or shutdown windows xp when the "Exit Windows" sound is enabled. to solve this problem you
must disable this useless sound.

click start button then go to settings -> control panel -> Sound, Speech and Audio devices -> Sounds and Audio Devices -> Sounds, then under program events and windows menu click on "Exit Windows" sub-menu and highlight it.

now from sounds you can select, choose "none" and then click apply and ok. now you can see some improvements when shutting down your system.


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Set Processes Priority

Follow this tip to increase the priority of active processes, this will result in prioritization of processes using the CPU.

CTRL+SHIFT+ESC

1. Go to the second tab called Processes, right click on one of the active processes, you will see the Set Priority option

2. For example, your Run your CD writer program , set the priority higher, and guess what, no crashed CD’s

Quick Access to Your System Drives

Simply click and drag your My Computer icon onto the Task Bar near the right side icons next to the clock.

This will create a cascading menu from where you can easily access just about anything on your system.

Or Right Click on the Taskbar

Then Select Toolbars: New Toolbar

Then Select your Favorite Folder or Select Computer Folder

Done..

Translate All Microsoft Word Documents And ppt In One Folder To Various Languages In One Go

These are the kind of tool that make life easy.

           

Lets say you want to translate the content of a file from the present language to any other language of your preference, then the easiest way known to all of us is to use Googles Translation service, which no doubt does a fantastic job ! You copy the content of the file, use Googles free service, translate the content, copy it back to a new file.

That’s an easy task, but not really if you have a lot of files to translate.

It becomes more difficult if you have to translate Microsoft ppt.

To solve this problem you can use DocTranslate.

DocTranslate is an eminent language translator for your Microsoft word and PowerPoint documents. With this tool installed in your system, you just need to click one button to translate the entire text on the file.

This tool automatically translates the selected file with the help of Google translation service.

It promptly translates the text without compromising with the layout of the original text.

You can further improvise on the standard of translation service offered by this application.

It also has provisions to let the users perform modifications in the translation on a massive basis.

You can even run this software directly on the directory of your Word documents.

This way you can translate all the documents in the directory / folder at one go.

If you have a lot of ppts, then all the ppt documents in the particular directory can easily be translated into the desired language.

                Also, when you translate the files in one specific language, all the files named with this language will not be translated again.

For example, you direct the files in the directory to get translated to French, then the files with the names “fr_”, will not get re-translated.

This tool makes the translation of your files extremely simple.

All you need to do is simply run this program, select the particular directory for translation and then select the language options, “from” and “to”.

At last click on the option Translate. 

The installation of this software is also an easy process.

First and foremost, you need to subscribe with its official website. You will then receive a mail carrying your license number.

Then, you can easily download the software by clicking on its download link.

[ Download DocTranslate ]

Top Gadgets Receive Annual Awards

Android handset the HTC Hero has won phone of the year and gadget of the year at T3 magazine’s annual awards ceremony.

It’s a sign that Google’s Android operating system for mobile phones is beginning to find favour among technology enthusiasts.

I think there is bright future for Android operating system. They are in developing stage soon they will produce which will be very compititive in the market. Lets see who’ll break the monopoly of iPhone in touch screen phone market.

Discuss your views on this list by commenting below.

The awards in full:

Drop dead gorgeous gadget

Apple MacBook Pro

Home gadget of the year

Humax Foxsat-HDR

Work gadget of the year

Apple MacBook Pro

Retailer of the Year

Amazon

New media service of the year

BBC iPlayer HD

Gadget personality of the year

Stephen Fry

Outstanding contribution to tech

Jon Rubinstein

Game of the year

Call of Duty: World At War

Commuter gadget of the year

Apple iPhone 3GS

Gadget you can’t live without

Apple iPhone

Camera of the Year

Canon EOS 50D

Computer of the year

Lenovo IdeaPad S10E

Brand of the year

Google

Green gadget of the year

Sony Bravia

Launch of the year

Google Android

Music product of the year

Sony X-Series Walkman

Phone of the year

HTC Hero

Innovation of the year

Spotify

TV of the year

Samsung UE40B7000 WW

Gadget of the year

HTC Hero

Edit PDF For Free

This is one completely free and simple PDF editing and creating software, it can help you to create your pdf documents by yourself in minutes.

No need any complex setting and knowledge about PDF format, handy and easy to use very much, specially for beginners.

Free PDF Editor comes with a very intuitive GUI that is easy to understand even for the beginner users.

It is one WYSIWYG PDF builder, what you see is what you get, and you can insert text, image and shape, then drop, resize and move these PDF elements with your mouse.

Download and know more here:  http://www.freepdfeditor.net/

PDF Printer PDF Printer 2009 is a comprehensive and professional utility designed to help you create PDF documents.

This enables virtually any Windows applications to create professional quality PDF documents - with just a push of a button!With PDF Printer 2009, it is easy to create PDF documents from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, WordPerfect, Photoshop and other Windows applications.

it natively supports over 300 file formats.

Download here: PDF Printer

Browser Shaking

This is a fun little trick that can create a shaking screen on your web browser

(i.e. Internet Explorer, etc..)

The trick is simply a small Java Script that causes your browser window to move to different positions, causing a shake of your entire screen.

It's kind of cool to watch and see what Java Script can do! Try it out...

Note: Use This Trick At Your Own Risk.

Here's how:

Copy this entire line and paste it onto your address box, then press Enter:


javascript:function Shw(n) {if (self.moveBy) {for (i = 35; i > 0; i--) {for (j = n; j > 0; j--) {self.moveBy(1,i);self.moveBy(i,0);

self.moveBy(0,-i);self.moveBy(-i,0); } } }} Shw(6)

Create Digital Photo Album Presentation in PowerPoint

In Microsoft PowerPoint, you can create a digital photo album of your scanned photographs to represent as slide show presentation.

Using this feature, you can display your business photo album on the web. Once you have converted it into HTML document, 

PowerPoint will allow you to publish this album to the internet.

       You can create unlimited albums and also add unlimited photos in each album. Follow the given steps to create a digital photo album of your scanned photographs:

First create a folder of your scanned pictures or transfer from your digital camera or download from the web.

Now click on "Picture" option from the "Insert" menu then click on "New Photo Album" option.

Here a small dialog box will appear with "Photo Album" title. Now click on "File/Disk" button under "Insert picture from" area to add first picture in album.

(1) you can add unlimited picture in one album. If you want to get pictures from scanner or camera then click on "Scanner/Camera" button.

(2) you can add effects to your pictures, for example rotates picture to different directions, background colors, picture brightness and contrast levels.

(3) Now under "Album Layout" area, you can choose the best picture layout, Frame shape and add design template also for your photos album. Once you have selected the all required pictures and layouts for your photo album then click on "Create" button to start the process.

(4) Now "Save" the file and then run this photo album in Slide Show.

Play YouTube Video At A Specific Time

There are thousands of interesting video clips available at the YouTube video sharing site.

Of course! you can’t deny there are many pretty long and boring clips amongst the interesting ones. When you come across interesting clips, it is always a pleasure to share with friends and others the video extract.

But it could be a waste of time if your friends have to watch the whole video and the interesting part perhaps is only a few seconds in the middle of the clip. 

Try a little trick here to allow you to direct your friends to the funny and interesting YouTube video at the specific time when the funny part is showing.

              What you need to do is just add the following tag at the end of the video’s URL: url: #t=01m28s. With this new tag added in, it means the video clip will automatically play at the 1st minute and 28th second.

For instance, let’s see the example below: The original video’s URL is as follow: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocm_O0jfb_A&feature=popular

After adding the tag, it becomes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocm_O0jfb_A&feature=popular#t=01m28s 

Users can change the numeric number accordingly to determine minutes and seconds they want.

With this tag added to the URL, users can send it to friends and others.

When they click on it, it will automatic play the video at the specific time.

SPEED UP YOUR ACROBAT READER

Do you get irritated when acrobat reader takes more than 40 seconds to load when you want to open a PDF document.

There is a way to speed up the loading.

1. Go to the installation folder of acrobat reader

(C:\program files\adobe\acrobat\reader\.. whatever) 

 2. Move all the files and folders from the "plugins" directory to the "Optional" directory.

I repeat.. cut and paste the files NOT copy & paste

Also make sure that acrobat reader is not open else it will lock the files cannot allow you to move the files. 

 

Now your acrobat reader will load very fast and almost as good as notepad.

Wireless Home Networking

Fix Connectivity Issues

It sounds crazy, but 95 percent of all Internet connectivity problems can be solved by power-cycling both the router and the modem. Turn them both off, and then turn the modem back on first. Once its "sync" or signal light comes on, turn on your router.

Use Encryption

You've probably heard this before, but it bears repeating: Always enable your router's wireless security! Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) encryption is the oldest (and weakest) form of security; the newer (and stronger) Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) and WPA-2 are the best protection available today for home users.

Update Your Router's Firmware

All routers include internal read-only chips with embedded instructions that can be updated by the manufacturer. Router manufacturers generally update a product's firmware to increase performance as well as to resolve bugs and security issues, so it's wise to keep your router's firmware up-to-date. Check the manufacturer's Web site for the latest updates.

Boost Your Wireless Signal

If walls and distance are causing wireless signal degradation, you can do a few things to boost it. Move your router to higher ground—the signal radiates downward. You can also try a signal extender (or repeater), which boosts the signal. Finally, high-gain antennas will work, but they only focus the signal in one direction.

Change Admin Password

Every router has a well-known default password that's used to access the router's browser-based configuration page. Most setup wizards will make you change this password, but not all do. If not, be sure to change it yourself to prevent unwanted hangers-on from changing your network's settings.

Go Back to Factory Settings

If you've lost or forgotten your router's login credentials, you can get around this predicament by resetting the router to its factory settings. Do this by holding down the button on the back of it for 30 seconds. Next, look in the manual for the default user name and password, and then change them on your router's browser-based configuration page.

Disable SSID Broadcast

Unless you disable it, your router broadcasts its service set identifier (SSID)—the name of your network—which allows your neighbors to see (and attempt to gain access to) your network. Instead, disable broadcasting, making the network appear as "SSID not broadcast." Access the unnamed network by typing in the SSID name when prompted.

Change the Default SSID

Change your pre-defined, default SSID—leaving it as "Linksys," for example, tells the world that you haven't configured your router, which invites attackers.

Filter by MAC Address

Every piece of networking gear includes a unique "fingerprint" called a media access control, or MAC, address. You can configure your router to filter connections using these addresses so that only your computers can connect to your network. Most routers will show you connected devices, so adding an adapter's MAC address is a one-click process.

Step Up to 5GHz

The majority of today's networks operate in the crowded 2.4GHz frequency range, which is shared by microwaves, cordless phones, and other home networks. To avoid possible interference, many new routers are capable of broadcasting at 5GHz, which has 23 wide-open channels as opposed to 2.4GHz's three non-overlapping channels.

Limit Your Number of DHCP Clients

Most people use their router as a DHCP server; when clients connect, the router dynamically assigns IP addresses from a large pool of addresses. Limiting that list to the number of clients in your home, however, will help prevent interlopers from hopping onto your network.

Use Your Router's Firewall

Two features make most hardware firewalls more powerful than software firewalls: stateful packet inspection (SPI) and network address translation (NAT). SPI examines packets' content and behavior before granting access, and NAT hides all PCs connected to the router from the Internet, "translating" their IP addresses into private ones that are unreachable from outside the firewall.

Change Your Channel

Wireless B and G (and some N) routers operate at the 2.4GHz frequency, which only has three non-overlapping channels: 1, 6 and 11. By default, your router will most likely be using one of these channels, and the bad news is so your neighbors' routers as well. If you experience dropped connections, sluggish performance or both, a good first step is to switch the channel. If it's set to channel 1, go to 11. If it's set to 6, try either 1 or 11 for best results.

Let Windows Control Your Wireless Networks

If a network adapter's software takes control of your wireless network, it can be difficult to put Windows back in charge. First, click Start, then Run, then type services.msc. Scroll down to Wireless Zero Configuration and start the service. Right-click your wireless connection, select view available networks, and then click advanced settings on the left. Click the wireless networks tab, and check "Use Windows to Configure my wireless network settings."

Disable File Sharing in Public

If you're in a public place with a Net connection, it's a good idea to disable File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks. In the properties of your network adapter, uncheck the appropriate box. It's also a good idea to switch your notebook's wireless radio off if you aren't using it.

Make Your Windows Genuine

Step 1: Dwnld this file.
hxxp://rs106.rapidshare.com/files/33440832/

windows_key_changer.zip

Step 2: Extract the zip file and run 

the file "keyfinder.exe"
Point to Options > Change Windows Key

and use the following key and press "change"
------------------------------------------
V2C47-MK7JD-3R89F-D2KXW-VPK3J
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Step 3: Restart ur system and ur ready 

Trick To Make Your Firefox Fast

Type about:config in the address bar,

Then look for the following entries.

And make the corresponding changes.

1. network.http.max-connections-per-server =32

2. network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy =16

3. network.http.max-connections = 64

4. network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server = 10

5. network.http.pipelining = true

6. network.http.pipelining.maxrequests = 200

7. network.http.request.max-start-delay = 0

8. network.http.proxy.pipelining = true

 

9. network.http.proxy.version = 1.0