That’s cool. I did not know that. But you can do the same thing by double clicking the name SLOWLY – as in two single clicks. It not only works in Windows Explorer, but SQL Server as well.
One more: When editing a long line of text, Shift-End selects the rest of the line (i.e. from where the cursor is now, to the end of theline). And Shift-Home selects from the cursor to the beginning of the line. Often useful for trimming a URL or copying a portion of it.
If you’ve got a program dumping data on you (for instance you forgot to “more” the output) this is an excellent way of pausing it to see what is going on. It also lets you CTRL+c out of the command if you don’t like what you see.
In Solaris and the old System V, the shells give you command line history and editing. I’ve got mine set up to use Emacs-like commands on the command line, which is great for repeating long commands with minor changes, especially when you are too lazy to write a shell script for it. ksh also let you do backward search with Emacs-commands, csh, which I’m stuck using now, uses a vi-like method which I really need to break down and use.
Sorry - I should have checked and included this info in my first post but I was in a hurry to share before I got beat to the punch on the screen cap tips.
Anyhow, Wikipedia says this:
‘‘Snipping Tool is an application included in Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Experience Pack for Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005. It was originally released as a powertoy for the Tablet PC launch on November 7, 2002.’’
Someone upthread glossed over Alt+Tab. I use this constantly - people are always asking me how in the world I switch between applications so quickly. Try it - thumb down on Alt, then repeatedly press Tab to cycle through the programs you have open (note: This is really only helpful if you have more than one application open…)
Also, some people aren’t aware of Ctrl+Tab either. If you use tabbed browsing, Ctrl+Tab will cycle through your tabs.
The “Shift” key often does the reverse of a lot of keyboard shortcuts. So while Alt+Tab cycles forward through your open programs, Shift+Alt+Tab cycles through them backward.
Here’s one: if you want to quickly zoom in or out (ms word, excel, browsers and quite a few other programs) press ctrl + roll that roller thing on your mouse. When zooming in or out, in chrome at least, the page wraps itself around the new size of your browser.
On Windows desktop keyboards, ALT+PRINT SCREEN captures only the active window. I had trouble remembering this until I realized that “ALT” and “active” both start with “A”. Nobody told me this, so I guess it was glaringly obvious to everyone else.
To add a note to the OP, in Windows sometimes you can select and copy text you wouldn’t think could be selected. For example, in Explorer, bring up the properties window for a file (alt+enter). You can highlight most of the text on that window by individual field. For example, you can highlight the full path in the “location” field.
In addition, if the entire path (or other data) is too long to display in the field, you can highlight the part that is there, then move your cursor past the right edge of that field. This causes the field to scroll to the left! You can then copy the entire path (or whatever).
That particular example isn’t all that useful, but it can come in handy elsewhere.