Ctrl Left – Move the cursor to the beginning of the previous word.Ctrl Right – Move the cursor to the beginning of the next word.Win Ctrl F – Opens the Active Directory Find Computers dialog.Win Shift M – Undo all Window minimization.Win Shift Right – Jump to right monitor.Win Shift Leftdow – Jump to left monitor. Win Shift Down – Restore vertical size.Win Shift Up – Maximize vertical size.Win or – – Enables the magnifier and zooms in/out.Win T – Show preview thumbnail of running applications in Windows Taskbar one by one without mouse over.Win P – Open the projection menu (generally used for laptops connected to projectors).Win G – Bring all gadgets on top and foreground.Win B – Move focus to notification tray (the right-most portion of the taskbar).Win Pause or Break – Open System Properties.Win Space – Makes all Windows transparent so you can see through to the desktop.Win Home – Minimize all but the current Window.Win Number – Activate and run the program pinned on Windows 7 Taskbar, running program won’t be affected.Win Rightdow – Dock the current Window to the right half of the screen.Win Leftdow – Dock the current Window to the left half of the screen.Win Down – Restore down or minimize current Windows.Here are some shortcut keys to help improve your productivity and user experience with Windows 7. If you are a Windows users it’s probably time for a change, or at least tryout this new operating system. With Microsoft to end their support for Windows XP in 2014, we figured Windows 7 will be completely taking over things in the next year or so. Codenamed Blackcomb, this new Microsoft operating system is surely a successor over it’s predecessor Windows XP and definitely Vista. Those are all the browsers I've been able to test with.With all the less pleasant verdicts about Vista, Windows 7 is perhaps PC users’ next best news. Opera doesn't seem to let you drag to the desktop at all. It uses the title and site icon correctly. The only problem is that the icon is tiny, and embedded within a generic white "document" icon.Ĭhrome lets you drag from the little padlock icon next to the URL. It uses the title of the page, and almost gets the icon right. Depending on the site configuration, it might even update the navigation buttons to match the main colour of the site's icon.įirefox lets you drag from the little "i" symbol next to the URL to create a shortcut on the desktop. If you drag from the address bar to the desktop, it seems to create a shortcut with the correct icon and title. There is a "Pin this page to Start" option, but that seems to use a generic icon, and dragging it to the desktop gives it a generic title as well. As far as I can see, there's no way to drag the site on to the desktop to make a shortcut. Which means the desktop doesn't get so cluttered!Įdge is a pain. Now they will appear in a list at the top of the Edge screen. Type something sensible, like "Bank".Ĥ) Make sure it says "Favourites bar" in the drop down below it, and click "Add".ĥ) Click the "." a the top right of the page, and choose "Settings" 2) Right click the desktop and select "New.Shortcut".ģ) In the dialog, paste the URL into the text box, and press "Next"Ĥ) Give it a sensible name, and click "Finish"ĥ) Right click the shortcut, and select "Properties"Ĩ) Paste this into the "File Name" area: "%systemroot%\system32\imageres.dll" and click "Open".īut.a better idea is to make them visible in Edge:Ģ) On the right hand side of the address bar is a hollow star: click it.ģ) This will ask you for a name.
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