Here are some of My Favorite Helpful Shortcuts/Tips For Use With Microsoft Windows 7.0
Do you miss the 'Quick Launch Bar' ? The bar is absent in Windows 7, but it can be put back.
- Use your mouse to right click on the Windows taskbar and then choose Toolbars; New Toolbar.
- The system will ask you for the path of the new folder. Type: %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch
- Select 'folder'. A new link to the quick launch bar will be added to your current task bar.
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Are you using a laptop and want to know how the power is being used ? There is a built-in application which will create a file containing a power efficiency report for you.
- From the command line type ("Folder" is the name you supply where you want the report to go):
powercfg -energy -output \Folder\Energy_Report.html
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Would you like to minimize all of the running application windows in one shot instead of minimizing them one at a time ? Windows 7 has a feature for this called " shake". The window that you are currently using will stay active and the rest will be minimized. Here is how to use it.
- Click and hold the title bar of the current active window you want to stay on-top.
- While holding it with the mouse, shake the item back and forth until all of the other windows are minimized.
- Once they are, let go of the mouse button.
- Shake the title bar once again to bring them all back.
