Holo

Hey I just found something cool in windows I'm sure everyone but me already knows, but if you hit the windows key and the corresponding first letter in a program in the start menu it opens it right up.



Like "windows + I" opens Irfanview for me.
Windows key + b opens burnatonce
etc etc.

Just thought I'd share in case anyone else didn't know it either. I just stumbled on it whilst trying to set up Hotshot:

http://www.smalleranimals.com/hotshot.htm


I tried to set a combo for Irfan and it opened anyway, so I closed it and lo and behold it's already built into windows!


tip: If you have two program starting with the same letter just rename one of them. Like Paint Shop Pro is P fo me and Photostudio is E for edit.

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Yakk

I'd guess that the & to underline a letter trick might work for this?

(disabled my windows key for random reasons, so can't test it here).

Ie:
Foo
Foxy
both start with F.
Foo
Fo&xy
might show up as
Foxy
with windows-x working?

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tkkfan

windows key d minimizes everything.
There is a keyboard shortcut to everything that u can do with the mouse. Open explorer, open favorites, open searches, etc

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tkkfan

also special symbols = i think hold alt or ctrl and press numbers on 10-key.

u get foreign letters, like é

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Radi8tor

is there a keyboard shortcut for moving the mouse?? hold some keys down and left arrow or up arrow? I end up navigating with TAB, and pressing the first letter of the filename on the keyboard, but have wondered if there was a way to actually move the mouse with the keyboard...

Holo

Yeah I know of the D, E, and R shortcuts but I had no idea it would open start menu items and I figured someone else may not know it either.



You can use Mousekeys in the Accessibility functions of Windows, but I prefer Joystick mice:

http://www.mystikeep.com/shareware/j...e/joymouse.htm



and for a bonus a joystick remote for winamp:

http://www3.sympatico.ca/warpawn/

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flamingpeach

Cool find holo, i'll have to try it out on my windows lappy.

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glytch

Very cool trick, I had no idea about this. Thanks Holo!

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Stare At The Sun

D-E-R shortcuts, thanks for the tips. Never knew!

RaDiAn

Hey I just learned something today , thanks Holo.

bparker805

Woah! Hold on! You mean to tell me that there is a Windows key? I never knew any of this until this very moment. Why can't I just download like in the Matrix...

k1ng

Windows + M also minimizes everything. Is there a difference? Seems weird to have two shortcuts for the same function.

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BuddyHawks

windows + d is like a "show desktop" finction. you can also hit it again and it will restore to how it was before.

so its better than windows + m ..?

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wakelagger

Windows key + F opens up the windows find/search utility. I used to be able to get IE to add the www. and the .com to internet addresses by using Ctrl + Enter, but it doesn't seem to work anymore.

Caphreak

i removed the windows key from my keyboard because i hit it too much while playing games... looks like im the loser now!

Dragonlich

How's about alt-F4 to end a program, or shut down windows?

Xirax

Silly me wanted to try this out, but then realized he was in KDE ;-)

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TheClarkster

I got the same thing! Lousy counterstrike...
At least there's still the nifty little "Show Desktop" icon at the bottom.

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portwineboy

Sort of moving off topic here but I recommend this to anyone who gets annoyed by the windows key when they play games.

http://www.bytegems.com/ihatethiskey.shtml

beats removing it from your keyboard!

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bltzkriegmcanon

Good God. How many times have I hit the Win Key when playing MMORPGs.

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zxello

i run Litestep so my windows key is disabled.... =P

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