Windows 7 Shortcut keys, Tips and Tricks

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Aug 312009
 

Download and learn Windows 7 shortcut keys, tips and tricks and increase your productivity. Each pdf document covers seven Windows 7 shortcut keys, tips and tricks and are listed here:

Tips and tricks in Windows7_Tips_1stEd.pdf include:

  1. Shuffling Through Program Windows
  2. Managing Your Windows.
  3. Project Your Display With Ease
  4. Multi-Monitor Window Management
  5. Aero Peek Your Desktop
  6. Live Clutter-Free
  7. Help the Help Desk Help You

Tips and tricks in Windows7_Tips_2ndEd.pdf include:

  1. Put a “Pin Up” of the Folders You Use Most
  2. Double-Up Your Windows
  3. Clear, Crisp Display—It’s In Your Control
  4. Order and Reason for Your Taskbar
  5. Taskbar Traversing
  6. BitLocker To Go Protection
  7. Your Own Personal Help Desk: Windows Troubleshooting Platform

Tips and tricks in Windows7-Tips-3rdEd.pdf include:

  1. Change the Scenery
  2. Crunch The Numbers
  3. Smart Printing
  4. Shake It Up.
  5. Clean your Desktop! And Order It Too
  6. Right-Click Mania
  7. Unveil Your Hidden Drives

Tips and tricks in Windows7_Tips_Tricks_4thEdit.pdf include:

  1. Help the Help Desk Help You
  2. Sticky Notes Avoid Sticky Situations
  3. Adaptive Display Brightness
  4. Notify Me, My Way.
  5. Authority over the Power Switch
  6. .ISO Files (Burning iso image files into CD / DVD)
  7. Locale Specific
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Windows Shortcut commands

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Aug 162009
 

For those who love to use keyboard instead of clicking mouse, this post will be very useful which will teach you how to use Windows shortcut commands or shortcut key combination. Listed below shortcut commands are very frequently used and works for all Windows Operating system including Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.

Windows Shortcut Command List:

Windows Key + D – “Show Desktop”, this command minimizes all the opened windows and shows Windows Desktop
Windows Key + M – Minimizes all the Opened Windows
Windows Key + E – To open “My Computer” (Also known as Windows Explorer)
Windows Key + F – “Search File and Folders”, this opens “Search Files and Folders” Window
Windows Key + R – “Run”, opens Run dialog box
Windows Key + U + U – To shut down your computer (Works on Windows XP)
Windows Key + U + R – To restart your computer (Works on Windows XP)
Windows Key + L – To “Lock Computer”
Alt + F4 – To close the current active Window
Alt + Tab – Switch over between opened Windows

Windows Key: A Button which is present in between Ctrl and Alt on the Left down corner of the Keyboard is called as Windows Key.

 Posted by techkb at 12:34 pm

Microsoft Outlook can be used as RSS Feeds Reader

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Aug 142009
 

RSS is abbreviated as either Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication. RSS feed are Rich website Summaries and Syndication and can be created using XML.

Now almost all the news, business, blogs, social networking website have RSS feeds and publish summaries of their content in a form that is easy for users to browse.

To subscribe the available RSS feed/s you need to have an RSS Reader and Microsoft Outlook 2007 allows you to subscribe to available RSS Feeds just like that.

A very simple example would be subscribing Tech-KB feed in Microsoft Outlook 2007. Just click on “Subscribe to RSS Feed” link available on this page at the top right navigation bar. This will ask confirmation message whether to launch Outlook Application, click on “Launch Application” and that is it. Congratulation you have subscribed to Tech-KB feed.

Another way to subscribe is copy the “Subscribe to RSS Feed” link by right clicking on “Subscribe to RSS Feed” and click on “Copy Shortcut” in IE 8, “Copy Link Address” in Google Chrome” or “Copy Link Location” in Firefox. Now open “Microsoft Outlook 2007” click on “Tools” > “Accounts Settings” and then click on “RSS Feed” tab then click on “New” and paste the copied link and click on “Add” and you are done. Now whenever you open “Outlook” you will get all the new content available in your Outlook RSS Feeds Folder.

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Windows 7 RC – Windows Media Center

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Aug 022009
 

Watch TV using Window Media Center

To configure Windows Media Center, all you need to do is select the region, enter zip code and agree the terms. This will download the latest TV Setup data according to the region selected.

Select the TV signal you have like Cable, Satellite or Antenna and click on “Next” and follow the onscreen instructions.

Remember, you need to have IR Receiver, else this software will not allow setup if you have selected signal as “Satellite”.


Internet TV

Get free online entertainment such as TV Shows, news, sports music concerts and many more with Windows Media Center – Internet TV which comes with your Windows 7 installation.

To watch Internet TV, all you need is Broadband connection. Choose from the categories “TV Shows”, “News”, “Sports”, “Music Concerts”, “Movies” etc.

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Step by step Windows 7 Ultimate RC installation guide

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Jul 302009
 

Hey, today I am bit excited with my new computer, here is what the configuration are:

  • Intel Dual Core 2.5GHz
  • XFX Motherboard 610i
  • 4GB RAM
  • 320GB Hard Drive
  • Sony DVD writer

Nothing new right? Yes, I know this is not the latest configuration to be very excited for or to mention it here but still…

With this configuration I desperately wanted to install Windows 7 Release Candidate.

Downloaded Windows 7 Ultimate RC Build 7100 32bit ISO file using previous post link and burned the ISO file on to a DVD.

To be safer I first took the backup of my whole hard drive data and then proceeded with Windows 7 installation.

Initially I thought it to be very complicated to install Windows 7, but to my surprise it is very easy, quick and user friendly; it took me less than half an hour to install Windows 7 Ultimate RC Build 7100.


Let me share this step by step Windows 7 installation guide which I followed:

  1. Boot the computer using Windows 7 DVD
  2. The very first screen asks you about the “Select Language”, “Time and Currency Format” and “Keyboard or Input method”. Choose appropriate and click on “Next” to go to next screen. (Windows calls this part as Information Gathering)
  3. In this screen click on “Install Now”
  4. Check the “Accept the License term” and click on “Next”
  5. Here you need to choose the option whether to “Upgrade” or “Custom Install”. Select “Upgrade if you want to Upgrade Windows else choose “Custom Install”. I have selected “Custom Install” for a clean installation.
  6. Screen prompts for selecting partition to which Windows to be installed, select the partition from the list of partition available and click on “Next” (If you want to format or create the partition/s then click on “Advance Drive Options” this will list you all the drive options.)
  7. Now “Installing Windows” screen appears, starts with expanding files, copies files, configures and installs hardware devices. In progress computer will restart couple of times.
  8. That’s it your Windows 7 installation is done.

Windows 7 installation process is very much user friendlier than ever. I would recommend you install and try Windows 7 as this will be the next widely used operating system.

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