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Cap Lock Alert Setting, Accessibility Options, ToggleKeys
Keyboard Shortcuts
ESC Cancel the current task
Alt Activate Tool Bar
Alt Tab Cycle open windows
ALT + underlined letter Carry out the corresponding command
ALT SPACEBAR, or ALT - in Office Open control menu in upper left
Ctrl Home Goto Top of document
Ctrl End Goto End of document
Alt D Select Address bar
SPACEBAR Select or clear the check box if the current control is a check box

Address Ctrl-Shift-Alt-H Function
Shift-Delete No recycle file deletion

Windows Key Shortcuts
Windows D Show Desktop
Windows M Show Desktop
Windows E Open Explorer (My Computer)
Windows R Open Run
Shift Windows M Show all Windows
Windows Break System Properties

Windows Keyboard Shortcuts
F1 Help
F2 Rename selected folder or file
F3 Search for a file, Find Next
F4 Open, Save As
F5 Refresh View, Goto (Office), Time/Date (Notepad)
F6
F7 Spellchecker (Office)
F8
F9
F10 Activate Tool Bar
Ctrl A Select all text in a window
Ctrl B Make all text in Word or Works Bold
Ctrl C Copy
Ctrl D Add a web page to Favorites in Explorer
Ctrl E Center align in Word or Works
Ctrl F Find, Goto (Office)
Ctrl G Goto, also F5
Ctrl H Replace
Ctrl I Underline selected text in Word or Works
Ctrl J Justify line in Word or Works
Ctrl K
Ctrl L Left align in Word or Works
Ctrl M
Ctrl N New
Ctrl O Open
Ctrl P Print
Ctrl Q
Ctrl R Right in Word or Words
Ctrl S Save
Ctrl T
Ctrl U Underline
Ctrl V Paste
Ctrl W Quit (Alt-F4)
Ctrl X Cut
Ctrl Y Undo last undo
Ctrl Z Undo last change, also ALT Backspace
Ctrl ' Makes an accent character in Word or Works
Ctrl ` Makes a accent character in Word or Works
Ctrl -> Skip a word to the right
Ctrl <- Skip a word to the left
Ctrl Shift ~ Makes a tilde character in Word or Works
Ctrl Shift ^ Makes a circumflex character in Word or Works
Ctrl Shift : Makes a umlaut character in Word or Works
Tab Move forward through options
Ctrl Tab Move forward through tabs
Shift Tab Move backward through options
Ctrl Shift Tab Move backward through tabs
Ctrl Enter Adds the interner prefix and .com in Internet Explorer Address window
Ctrl Hold Ctrl down and scroll to change a web pages Font size
ENTER Click the selected button
Open a folder one level up if a folder is selected, in the Save As or Open dialog box BACKSPACE
Open Save In or Look In lists in the Save As or Open dialog box F4
F5 Refresh the Save As or Open dialog box

Type 'foreign punctuation' in Word help to see all the keyboard shortcuts for foreign punctuation To help set up a home network, run the Windows Network Wizard.
In Me it is called netconn, and in XP it is netsetup.
Date and Time Stamps in Excel: Ctrl ; for date, Ctrl Shift ; for time, for both,
enter both separated by a press of the space bar.
If your home page setting keeps getting hijacked, use Find, or Search to locate all
hta and js files, then rename them, either by group or individually, to locate the culprit.
To create a bootable floppy for Windows 2K or XP, copy to a floppy disk the files, boot.ini, ntdetect.com, and ntldr (no extension).
To make a shared folder invisible to people on the network (but accessible to those
who know it exists) add a dollar sign to the end of the name.
To resize all columns of a folder in details view, hold down Ctrl and press the Plus
sign on the number pad.
To stop the clicking sound when a web page changes, open Control Panel Sounds,
and in the Sounds tab, scroll down to Windows Explorer, then select Start Navigation,
and change the sound to None.
Setting Folder Views: Open a folder and set the view as you desire. Select Tools,
Folder Options, Click the View tab, and click "like current folder."
You can send a Web page in e-mail by clicking the File menu, pointing to Send,
and then clicking Page By Email.
You can type a word in the Address bar and press CTRL+ENTER to automatically
add http://www. and .com on either side of the word.
To see when a web page was last updated, type in the address field: javascript:alert(document.lastModified) and press Enter
Emailing large messages from Outlook or Outlook Express - set Tools, Accounts,
Mail, Properties, Advances, check Break apart messages and set to 1000 (kb).
To save the messages from Outlook Express, first create and name a new folder to
hold the messages you want to save, and move your messages to the folder.
Then select Tools, Options, Maintenance, and select Store Folders. This will show
you where your email is stored at. Highlight and copy the folder name. Then open
Explorer and paste the folder name in the address window. You can then copy the
desired folder to a floppy, and delete the folder in Outlook Express. To restore a folder,
re-create the named folder in Outlook Express, and copy your saved folder back to
the Store Folder location.
To export folders to another drive, open a DOS window (Accessories, MS-DOS
Prompt) and type:
xcopy "c:\folder\foldername*.*" d:\transfer /d /y /s
where c: and d: are the origin and destination drives, and folder\foldername is
folder path you wish to copy.
To import folders from another drive, open a DOS window (Accessories,
MS-DOS Prompt) and type:
xcopy d:\transfer "c:\folder\foldername*.*" /d /y /s
Alternatively, use Map Network Drive to assign a drive letter to another
network computer (t:\ is used here), then in a batch file type the command:
XCOPY c:\*.* t:\ /c/h/e/k/r/m and run the batch file.
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Save this as printdir.bat in the windows sendto folder (exit notepad to print)
[See find.pcworld.com/36170]
@echo off
@dir %1 /-p /o:gn > "%temp%\dir.txt"
@notepad /p "%temp%\dir.txt"
Printing a Directory:
Open notepad and type on the first line, without quotes "dir > dir.txt"
Press enter to create a second line and type, without quotes "prn dir.txt"
Save the file with whatever name you wish, followed by ".bat" again, without quotes.
My file is called dirprint.bat. Copy the file to the folder you want a directory print of,
highlight the file, and press enter. If the printer is a network printer, add the printer's
network address, e.g., \\server/laser after the "prn dir.txt" line.
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To replace a damaged system file, locate your windows CD, or the folder containing
your "cab" files. Open Search. In the Search For field, type *.cab. In the Containing
field, type the name of the corrupted file. In the Look In field, type in, or browse to,
the folder or CD containing the cab files. Click search. When the cab file(s) is/are
displayed, open the cab file (double click, or right-click and select open) and scroll
through the list to find the file you will use to repalce your corrupted file. Highlight
the filename, right-click, and select "extract."
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Remove icons from Control Panel, search for *.cpl files and either move or rename
the suspected file.
To rename multiple files at once, uncheck auto arrange, arrange and highlight the
desired files, right click the first file and the the desired name followed by (1),
press enter, and the other files will be sequentially named and numbered. Note that
undo will ondo the last ten filesd of the list, so do them 10 at a time.
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Place a recalitrant hard drive in the freezer for a few minutes to temporarily access it.
Use scanreg/restore to restore Windows 98
See Genesis 14:8, and 49:24 for the first emoticons.

boot, f8, 5 to dos, scanreg , "view backups"

cd c:\windows\sysbckup

diq rb*.cab rename newer ones to rb00x.bak to leave best 5.

in Windows run scanreg/restore

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dealing with a damaged registry

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