A list of key combinations that can be used to perform special functions. By pressing or holding certain keyboard buttons together you can launch new windows, create shortcuts, and quickly copy and paste files.
Windows key - access Start menu
Windows key + Pause - open System Properties
Windows key + D - minimise/restore windows
Windows key + F - open Search window
Windows key + F1 - open Help and Support Center
Windows key + E - open Windows Explorer window
Windows key + M - minimise all windows
Windows key + TAB - move through open windows on Taskbar
Windows key + SHIFT + M - restore all windows
Hold CTRL while dragging - make a copy of selected item
Hold CTRL + SHIFT while dragging - make a shortcut to selected item
CTRL + ESC - open Start menu
CTRL + C - Copy
CTRL + X - Cut
CTRL + V - Paste
CTRL + A - Select All
CTRL + Z - Undo
CTRL + B - Bold highlighted text
CTRL + U - Underline highlighted text
CTRL + I - Italicise highlighted text
CTRL + Plus key - increase browser text size
CTRL + Minus key - decrease browser text size
CTRL + ALT + DELETE - open Task Manager
ALT + underlined letters in menus - open menu item
ALT + ENTER - show Properties of selected object
ALT + F4 - close current window or program
CTRL + F4 - close window within program
ALT + TAB - switch between open windows or programs
TAB - move forwards through control items or links in current window
SHIFT + TAB - move backwards through control items or links
ENTER - click selected control item or link
BACKSPACE - move up one folder level
HOME - go to start of current line or web page
END - go to end of current line or web page
CTRL + END - go to end of current document
PAGE UP - move up through current document or web page
PAGE DOWN - move down through current document or web page
PRINT SCREEN - take snapshot image of current screen
ALT + PRINT SCREEN - take snapshot image of current window
F2 - rename selected item
F5 - refresh current window or web page
F6 - move through window panes
Keyboard Shortcuts
Does Your Computer Take Too Long To Boot Up ?
To fix this issue, you can either manually clear the start-up folder and registry entries or just download the excellent Autoruns 9.0 utility from Microsoft.
Autoruns shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and the entries are in the order in which Windows processes them.
You can select the services, executables and registry entries that may be responsible for the long start-up time and uncheck them to disable.
AutoRuns for Windows
Free Download Manager 2.5.738
FreewareList note, FDM now able to download video from video sites, such as Youtube, Google Video, Blennus, Dailymotion, LiveDigital and MySpace . The video can then be saved in native .flv format or converted to one of more popular video formats.
Youtube Batch Downloader 1.4
Youtube Batch Downloader is software to browse youtube.com, just like if you open youtube.com using IE or Firefox, but this Youtube Batch Downloader have button to download the movie, and the best part is, you can download more than one movie.If you have 10s or 100s of files you want to download from youtube. You absolutely should try this application.
Requires Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0.
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Download File Size = 2.79 MB
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Free PDF to Word Doc Converter
How to edit PDF files without purchasing an expensive PDF editor? How to extract text/images from PDF files? What you need is a PDF to Word Converter.
Free PDF to Word Doc Converter is such a desktop document conversion tool to convert Adobe PDF file to Microsoft Word Doc file. The program can extract text, images, shapes from PDF file to Word Doc file and preserve the layout. It can convert all the pages, or any pages range of the PDF file.
And it is a standalone program - you can convert PDF to Word Doc without Adobe Acrobat Reader or Microsoft Word installed.
Features:
>Convert PDF to Word and preserve the original layout of your PDF in an editable Word Document.
>Extract text labels, graphics, shapes from PDF file into Word Doc file.
>Convert all the pages, or partial pages of PDF file to Word file.
>Support Adobe PDF 1.0 - 1.6 formats.
>Can automatically open the output Doc file when the conversion is done.
>Several PDF to Word conversion options are available for a better result.
>Convert in a high speed.
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SplitFile
SplitFile’s goal is to split big file in smaller segments to be able to store them in floppy disks or CD. The main feature if compared to other programs like this, is the ability to support very large files and to being configured to increase performances if used with fast disks.
Features:
A lot of size preset : not only standard ones (floppy and CD-R) but also uncommon ones (ZIP disk, 800MB CD-R, DVD-R)
- You can choose to split the file according to the desiderated size or to the number of parts you need
- Several units selectable (from bytes to GB). Only SplitFile let you split GB of data.
- You can choose the read/write buffer to improve performances
- You can pause the task
- Two join methods: through the Graphical User Interface ( GUI ) of this program, or through an executable file that anyone can use, even if they do not have SplitFile.
- You can choose to be asked before overwriting a file that already exists
- You can directly Split/Join the files in a destination folder different from the source one(to easily find the files) and also on different drives (to speed up the process)
Requires : Microsoft .NET Framework.
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Abc 3GP Converter
Features :
>Converts all formats to 3GP/3GP2 format that can be played on general portable video device such as mobile phone.
>Fast video conversion speed.
>User-friendly interface that is easy to use.
>Supports batch conversion/merge conversion mode.
>Converts any clip or segment of input file.
>Has the option to preview the video in real-time.
>Has the option to automatically shutdown your computer when the conversion has been completed.
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StyleFolder
StyleFolder tool for quickly costumize looks of selected drive or folder. You can chose and editing background, icon, text color and Info tip. It designed for free, easy and handy to use. All costumizing preview and setting will displayed on one screen.
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View Excel 2007 Files without Microsoft Office
You got an Excel 2007 spreadsheet in your Inbox but there’s no Microsoft Office on you computer to open that file.
You could either buy Office 2007 or just grab the free Microsoft Excel 2007 viewer that was released this week. This program has been available since long but only the new version supports the xlsx format.
With this new Excel 2007 Viewer, you can view and even print spreadsheets created using any version of Microsoft Excel. You can also copy data from Excel Viewer to another program.
The other option for opening xlsx files is the Office Compatibility pack but that works only if you have a copy of Office 2003 or Office XP.
Excel Viewer [Microsoft Download Center]
DVD Shrink
Back up your movies on DVD to your hard drive.
Here's one for anyone who wants to make backup copies of their DVDs on their hard disk. That way, you can use Windows Media Center or another DVD media player to play the DVDs on your PC. The program lets you rip the DVD to your hard disk in a variety of formats, including a lossless one that keeps the image and audio quality intact. You can choose from other formats if you want to save hard disk space. And you can also customize the quality on any DVD you rip.
DVD Shrink will preserve all your DVD content, including menus, trailers, subtitles, and so on. If you'd like, though, you can eliminate any of that content as well. Maybe best of all, it's free.
Send Yourself an Email in the Future Using Google Calendar
Ever wanted to send yourself emails that are scheduled for delivery sometime in the future - say ten years from now ?
Now there are some services that allow you to send email messages with a future send date but there aren’t any guarantees that the email will get delivered to your Inbox on the scheduled date as that service itself may not stick around for that long a period.
Therefore a more reliable solution for sending future emails to yourself is to create an event reminder in any web based calendar from Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft or AOL - some of these companies may merge in the future but they’ll definitely be around in some form in the coming decades.
To compose an email with a future date, just create a new event in any of the web calendars and set the event date same as the email delivery date. Then set an email reminder 5 minutes from the start of the event.
You can use the same trick to schedule SMS messages in the future as all web calendars can send event alerts to your mobile phone.
I prefer Google Calendar or Windows Live Calendar over Yahoo! Calendar since the latter only permits your to create events within 7 years while the Google or MSN impose no such restriction.
Download YouTube Videos Directly to Your iPod via iTunes & Tooble
Tooble is a free software that lets you watch YouTube videos on your iPod. Such a thing has always been possible but Tooble makes the whole process extremely simple even for novice users.
Tooble will automatically download your favorite videos from YouTube and converts them to MP4 format.
The converted YouTube videos are then imported into iTunes library so the next time you plug-in the iPod, the YouTube videos are automatically transferred from the computer to the iPod.
And not just the iPod, you can also consider using Tooble for watching YouTube videos on your computer using any media player that supports MP4 (like VLC, QuickTime).
Tooble is currently available only for Mac but a Windows version is coming. Thanks Crave.