Windows 7 Shortcuts

Here I am giving few windows 7 useful shortcuts,

1. You pin your favorite application to your task-bar say edit-plus (Assume that this is your first application task-bar). Now you can access that application with keyboard shortcut Win + 1. In this way you can access 10 applications with Win + 2, Win + 3,....,Win + 10.

2. You have any one window open now if you want to adjust that window to half left of your computer screen then you can use Win + Left or Right Arrow. If you want to adjust this windows to right half of your screen, you can keep pressing Win + Left or Right Arrow.

3. If you want to restore down your active window then press Win + Down Arrow. If you want to maximize your active window then press Win + Up Arrow key.

4. If you want to browse through your folder hierarchy then use Alt + Arrow keys. This will work with your windows explorer. Here you can use Up, Left or Right arrow keys

5. Win + Alt + N will allow you to access jump list of Nth pinned application on your task-bar. Here N = 1, 2, ...,9 means number keys.

6. You can create shortcut for your favorite application for launching that application. Right click on your favorite application icon => Go to properties => shortcuts. Now click on shortcut field and press shortcut that you want. Ex. Alt + A.

7. Very useful is opening command prompt for particular folder. If you are in some folder say C:\a\b\c\d and now you want to open command prompt at this folder then press "Shift key + Right click" in your folder and you will get "open command window here" option. You click this option and you will get command prompt for that folder.

8. You know that after pressing Shift key five times opens Sticky key dialog box. If you want to avoid that follow the link in the same dialog box and here you can disable this feature.

Google Tips & Tricks

Here I am giving few google tips & tricks. Few are funny and few are useful for developers.

1. zerg rush:
Just go to google.com and type "zerg rush" in google search and press enter. Now you have to protect your page from enemies. Try this it is so funny.


2. do a barrel roll:
In google search just type "do a barrel roll" and press enter.


3. gravity:
In google search type "gravity" and press "I'm Feeling Lucky" button.


4. Web History:
If you are logged in through gmail account and browsing on the web, then you can retrieve all your history. Google maintains your search history for you. In the right upper corner there is one button called option. Click this button and go to web history. Here it will ask you for login, after login it will give you all your history.


5. See visited pages by you:
Write keyword in search bar for which you want to see visited pages. Now in the left side panel at the bottom you will see "The web" option in that click "More search tools". In that you will find option of "Visited pages". Click that option and you will get visited pages.


6. Create open source project with google:
Go to "More" option present at top of your google page. In that click "Even more". Here at the bottom of page you will find option of "Code". Click this option and you will all information about creating open source projects.

I will try to add more.

Funny Computer Tricks

Here I am going to show few funny computer tricks.

1. Are you getting bore with black and white command prompt? Then don't worry here is solution.

Just open your command prompt and type following command,

>color 1

Here number shows text color.

>color 12

Here first number shows color of background and second number shows color of text.

For help you can type,

>color 100

2. You can create .bat file for opening command prompt.For that create file with .bat extension and add following lines in that file,

@echo off

command.com

pause

Now you can double click this file to open command prompt.

3. It is fun with notepad.

    a. Open notepad.

    b. Write "Q33N".

    c. Change font to "Wingdings".

    d. Increase font size.

4. Try to create folder named "con" in your windows OS. It will not allow you to create such folder. In order to create such folder type following command on command prompt.

>mkdir \\.\c:\con

It will create con folder on your c drive

5. Creating shutdown shortcut,

   a. Right click on desktop.

   b. Select shortcut.

   c. Now in browse field type [shutdown -s -t 5 -c "System crash"].

   d. Click next and give some name to shortcut.

   e. Double click on shortcut.

6. For word here is one trick,

   a. Open word and go to "word option" -> proofing -> Autocorrect.

   b. In this tab you will find "Replace text as you type" option.

   c. In that fill some text in "Replace" text box Ex. the and type something in "With" text box Ex. why.

   d. Now if you type word "the" it will be replaced with "why".

7. If you want to maintain LOG in your notepad file then simply add following line in your notepad,

".LOG"

Note that this must be the very first line in your notepad.

Now every time when you will open your file, time stamp will be added to file automatically.

Note : Do things carefully. I am giving it for just fun.