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Tuesday, March 27, 2018 – Permalink –

Search for File Nits

Refine the questions

You can use Windows search to locate metadata information. Such as the date on the file:

date:>2/7/05<2/10/05>

Searches for a date in the Date property between the values 2/7/05 and 2/10/05, excluding the end dates.

Or all of the photos on your machine taken with a Canon:

Camera make

cameramake (cameramake:canon)

Advanced Query Syntax

HowToGeek - Date Search

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Monday, February 26, 2018 – Permalink –

Task Manager

When your machine has the snivels

There's a lot of stuff going on in the background that you might want to know about.

That's where the Task Manager comes in.

"There are a couple of ways to show the Windows Task Manager: hold down the Ctrl and Alt keys and press the Delete key - Task Manager will then open some versions of Windows, in others you will be presented with a small dialog box that has a button you can click to open the Task Manager; alternatively you can right-click on empty space on the Taskbar and select Task Manager from the menu."

Here's the Vista/Windows 7 version:

From the BloodyComputer:

Task Manager 1

Task Manager 2

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Monday, February 12, 2018 – Permalink –

Rename Files

Add Info

When you download pictures from your digital camera, they end up with incomprehensible name such as IMG_0284.JPG, or _MG_2640.CR2.

To make them more useful:

Select all those files from Xmas. You can use Ctrl to group them, or use Ctrl+A to select all the files in that folder.

Right click the selection and choose Rename.

Pick a descriptive title, such as 2014 Xmas Party.

Hit Enter

All of the selected files will be renamed "2014 Xmas Party.JPG”, "2014 Xmas Party.CR2”, "2014 Xmas Party(2).JPG”, "2014 Xmas Party(2).CR2”, "2014 Xmas Party(3).JPG” "2014 Xmas Party(3).CR2”.

The extensions will remain the same.

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Sunday, January 21, 2018 – Permalink –

Onscreen Keyboard

Tap or Click?

If you would like to have a keyboard on your screen that can be activated with your mouse you're in luck

Type osk in Start Run

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Saturday, December 23, 2017 – Permalink –

Custome Shortcuts

Hands on keys

Ed Bott reminds us how to set up custom keyboard shortcuts to start applications.

Create custom keyboard shortcuts

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Sunday, December 17, 2017 – Permalink –

Save the Warning

Easy record

It happens. Your machine balks and spits out an obscure warning message.

You grab a pen and scribble out the error code, which typically is 90 characters long.

Too much hassle!

When the warning box appears, just hit Ctrl+C. The contents of the box are now on the Clipboard and can be pasted into Notepad.

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Wednesday, November 22, 2017 – Permalink –

IE Shortcuts

Finger flicks

A selection of keyboard shortcuts for IE.

Here are a few:

F11 Toggle between full-screen and regular views of the browser window in Internet Explorer

ALT + HOME Go to your home page

ALT + RIGHT ARROW Go to the next page

ALT + LEFT ARROW or BACKSPACE Go to the previous page

CTRL+ F Find on this page

CTRL + TAB or CTRL + SHFT + TAB Switch between tabs

More:

Browser shortcuts

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Wednesday, November 08, 2017 – Permalink –

Windows Check Boxes

Select checks

Add check boxes to file views to make it easier to select several files at once, which can be useful if it is difficult for you to hold the CTRL key while clicking to select multiple files.

Step 1: Go to Control Panel>Appearance and Personalization>Click Folder Options.

Step 2: Click View tab and under Advanced Settings, Select Use Check boxes to select items

Change folder views and behavior

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Sunday, September 24, 2017 – Permalink –

Put IE Back on the Desktop

Regedit ahead

Click Start, Run.

Type "regedit.exe" (Without quotes).

Navigate to the following registry key

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel

In the right hand pane, double-click {871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D} key.

Enter dword value as 0 to enable the Internet Explorer icon on the Desktop.

Internet Explorer Desktop icon missing

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Tuesday, August 29, 2017 – Permalink –

Folder Tree

DOS is back

"To find out how many folders there are on your hard disk, you can open a Command Prompt and use the Tree command. You'll get a very nice looking graphical tree structure showing all the folders on your hard disk.

The only problem is that the display will scroll by your screen so fast and exceed the buffer size, so you'll never be able to see it."

Import Tree command into Word

(Open Command Prompt as Administrator. Rather than "Insert>File", open the file with Word and choose the MS-DOS format))

Tree command

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Thursday, June 22, 2017 – Permalink –

Shortcut Controls

Switch them into shape

There are four ways that Explorer uses to display folders and file.

It will open a single pane window (no Explorer bar).

It will allow the user to navigate out of the folder (i.e. to the folder’s parent and beyond).

The default is for none of the items in a folder to yet be selected.

If there is already an open Explorer window displaying that folder, then the operating system will switch to that existing view, as opposed to opening a new one.

You can display the alternatives by usinf=g switches.

/n forces it to open a new window, even if it duplicates a window that is already open.

/e uses Windows Explorer view (multi-paned).

/root,X restricts Explorer to showing only the contents of file folder X (and its sub-folders).

/select,Y automatically selects Y (either a file or folder).

For a complete explanation, go to:
CodeJacked.com

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Saturday, May 27, 2017 – Permalink –

Auto Show

Also Dumb No Dot

A PowerPoint show can be set up to run automatically when it is opened.

To do this, you could go to File>Save As and choose PowerPoint Show (*.pps) from the Save as type: list.

Another way is to change the extension (the three letters that appear after a file name such as Report.DOC).

PowerPoint uses .PPT for normal files, .POT for templates.

A PowerPoint show uses .PPS.

Microsoft "dumbed down" Windows Explorer so that, by default, extensions are not displayed.

To see them:

Go to Windows Explorer.

On the Menu bar go to Tools>Folder Options
(Organize>Folder and Search Options in Vista)

Click on the View tab.

In the Advanced settings list, remove the check mark from "Hide file extensions for known file types."

OK your way out.

To change a regular PowerPoint file to a show:

Locate the file in Windows Explorer.

Right click the file name and choose Rename.

Touch the End key on the keyboard and the Backspace three times.

Enter the letters PPS

Hit Enter.

You now have a PowerPoint show that will automatically run when it is opened.

(This also works with *.PPTX files

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Thursday, March 23, 2017 – Permalink –

Hints and Tips

For Windows
A number of suggestions to use with Windows.

Ramesh Srinivasan
Microsoft MVP, Windows Desktop Experience

Ramesh's Site

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Saturday, February 04, 2017 – Permalink –

Cut the Shortcut Arrow

Clean icons
If little things bother you, try this suggestion to remove the arrow that appears on shortcut icons.

HowToGeek.com

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Friday, December 30, 2016 – Permalink –

Resize Alt-Tab

Registry hack
Here are the instructions about how to size the thumbnails in Vista/Win7 to fit your screens resolution.

Windows 7

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Friday, December 16, 2016 – Permalink –

UAC-Administrator

Full control
If you are overly confident about your skills, you might want to look at Greg Schultz's discussion on Administrator power.

”You should use the real Administrator account very sparingly - never make it your default modus operandi! Please note that you use this technique at your own risk.”
TechRepublic

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Thursday, December 08, 2016 – Permalink –

Tipsy Windows

More suggestions
A lot of XP stuff, but many suggestions that are still useful.

Marvs Windows Tips

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Thursday, November 24, 2016 – Permalink –

Cap On

A note
Here's how to have Windows notify you if the Cap Lock key is struck.
HowtoGeek.com

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Sunday, October 23, 2016 – Permalink –

Convert Graphic Styles

Straight forward
Often you will have pictures in one format and want to explore using it in a different manner.
Built into Office 2003/7/10 is a mini app called Microsoft Office Picture Manager.

1. Go to Start > All Programs > Microsoft Office > Microsoft Office Tools > Microsoft Office Picture Manager
2. Browse to the images you want to convert and select them
3. Go to File > Export
4. Under Export with this file format, click the dropdown and select one of the formats (TIFF, PNG, JPG, BMP. . .)

Converting WMF's

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Saturday, October 15, 2016 – Permalink –

Flip Text

This text is right side up

uʍop ǝpısdn sı sıɥʇ

This site accepts your perfect prose and turns it around.
(with Unicode)

RevFad.com

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