Tuesday, September 16, 2008

How to Make a Shutdown Shortcut in Windows

1. Right-click on an empty area of your Desktop.

2. Roll-over your Pointer on New.

3. Select Shortcut from the menu which appears.

4. Type this code "shutdown -s", without the quotes, in the field with the Caption Type the location of the item:.

5. Click on Next, and then Finish.

6. The code above, would shut down your Windows, as it does normally i.e. By closing each and every program, and then shutting down. But, if you want your Windows to shut down instantly, just by stopping every program, then use this code "shutdown -s -t 00"(00 is the number of seconds till shutdown, if you put 100 it will take 100 seconds),without the quotes in Step 4. Follow Step 5, to complete the creation of a Shutdown Shortcut.

7. If you would like a 'Goodbye' message, just add " -c "TYPE MESSAGE HERE"" to the end of the code.

8. If you want to abort the shutdown got to start, click run and type "shutdown -a"(Note: you can only abort shutdown if you put the nuber of seconds after " -t", it won't work without).

How to Make an Invisible File

1. Create a new folder.
2. Right Click -> New -> Folder, a new folder should be created.
3. Customize the icon. Don't rename it just yet. Right Click the New Folder, go to Properties, then to Customize, and then Change Icon. Here is the trick, go to the middle and you should see some blank spaces. Those are transparent icons, select one of those then press OK -> Apply -> OK.
4. Name your folder. Press rename and instead of the file press ALT+0160 (Remember to keep the ALT button pressed down while typing the numbers).
5. You should have finished your new invisible file, Congratulations.

Use Your Computer Without a Mouse

1. Window key opens start menu

2. Arrow keys to select start menu icon

3. Alt+F4 Exits the program

4. F1 Opens help for many programs

5. Control+Z Undo's

6. Control+Alt+Delete Runs Task Manager

7. Control+X Cuts

8. Control+C Copies

9. Control+V Pastes

10.F11 toggles full screen and regular views on Internet Explorer

11.Tab moves forward through items on a webpage

12.Shift+Tab moves backward through items on a webpage

13.Alt+Home goes to your homepage on Internet explorer

14.Shift+F10 opens a shortcut menu for an internet link

15.F6 or Control+Tab moves forward between frames

16.Control+Shift+Tab moves backward between frames

17.↑ and ↓ keys scroll

18.Page Up scrolls up in larger increments

19.Page Down scrolls down in larger increments

20.Control+F Find something on the page

21.F5 refreshes webpage

22.Control+N opens another of the same webpage

23.Control+O Opens another document or webpage

24.Control+P Prints current frame

25.Control+S Saves current document

26.Control+W Closes window if you only have one tab open

27.Enter activates selected link

28.Control+I Opens Favorites

29.Control+H Opens History

30.Press Alt and letter underlined on desired menu to open menu i.e. Alt+E opens Edit, Alt+H opens Help

31.Control+E Go to search box

32.Alt+Tab opens search query in new tab

33.Control plus - or + zooms in or out

34.Control+Number switches to specific tab on internet explorer

35.Control+Alt+F4 closes all other tabs

36.Alt+D selects the text in the address bars

37.Control+Enter adds www. and .com to the text in the address bar

38.F4 opens list of websites you've typed.