The Greatest Windows Tips of All Time
PCWORLD - Whether you’re a Windows vet or a relative newcomer, you can always use a trick or two for making things go faster. We’ve compiled our favorite time-saving tips for Windows XP, Vista, and 7. Print out this story and keep it on your desk.
Classic Windows Tips
Toggle between apps: Use Alt-Tab to switch open programs without touching your mouse. The oldest–and still the best–Windows timesaver.
Navigate app windows: Press Ctrl-Tab to cycle through an application’s windows (or through a Web browser’s tabs). First cousin of the tip above, and probably the most underrated tip ever.
You can access most functions, applets, or files in the old-fashioned way–by entering them into the Search box. Type Calculator, Control Panel, or even the name of a piece of music on your hard drive, and press Enter.
Unobtrusive updates: Keep your OS current by opening Windows Update and setting it to Download updates but let me choose whether to install them. That way, you won’t have Windows urging you to restart when you don’t want to.
Partition, partition, partition: Make backups and restores easier by partitioning your hard drive and keeping one partition for the OS and the other for your documents and data.
Take a shortcut: Right-click on any application icon, bring up the Properties menu, and click the Shortcuts tab. You can specify a keystroke combination to start your application here.
Speed Up Your Services
Nudge your network: If you have network problems, try opening the command prompt (enter cmd in the Start menu’s search box) and typing ipconfig /renew to reset your network connection.
Clean up your startup.Check in the Startup tab to see what your machine is loading. Your computer might be loading services or apps that you don’t need or want to use on startup.
Sharing is caring: For a little assistance in tracking your shared folders, right-click My Computer (or Computer in Windows 7) and click Manage to bring up the Computer Management tool. Then click Shared Folders to see a list of all of your machine’s shared folders, file-sharing sessions, and open files.
Essential Add-Ons
Get your hands dirty with Greasemonkey: Optimize your Web browsing with Greasemonkey for Firefox, an add-on that lets you choose among thousands of user-designed scripts for blocking ads, changing the layouts of popular sites, and more. (Variants also exist for Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Safari.)
Run, Windows, run: To access the Run command easily, press Windows-R.
Keyboard explorer: Want to open a new Windows Explorer window without leaving the keyboard? Press Windows-E.
Declutter your desktop: Access your desktop instantly by pressing Windows-D to hide all open windows. Press Windows-D again to return to where you were.
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Sehr gut, dass MS endlich das Betriebssystem Windows7 erheblich verbessert hat, als unter Windows XP …..
Mich würde interessieren, ob es schon möglich ist,
Fotos im RAW Format in der Windows7 herkömmlichen Bildvorschau,
zu sehen.
lg Harry