Speed up your use of the computer by learning a few shortcut keys. WINKEY and then ANY CHARACTERPress WINKEY and watch start menu open. Press any character and focus will be set on the first application beginning with the letter. Press the character once more to select the next item that meets the criteria. Press ENTER to run the application.- If you press “I” the Internet Explorer will open instantly. WINKEY + MThis will clear your desktop in an instant by minimizing all active applications. WINKEY + DThis will also clear your desktop, however if you press WINKEY + D…

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If you want the Windows 2000 CTRL+ALT+DEL screen to appear in XP instead of immediatly jumping to the task manager simply deactivate the welcome screen: start > settings > control panel > change the way users log on and log off > uncheck “Use the welcome screen” now reboot your machine (it didnt work on my machine until I rebooted). now when you use CTRL+ALT+DEL you can do all the same things you could with 2000 (eg. Lock The Computer or force a shutdown)

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WinRAR is a powerful archive manager Win32 Linux Mac RAR files can usually compress content by 8 percent to 15 percent more than ZIP files can WinRAR is a powerful compression tool with many integrated additional functions to help you organize your compressed archives It can backup your data and reduce size of email attachments decompress RAR ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format WinRAR puts you ahead of the crowd when it comes to compression By consistently creating smaller archives WinRAR is often faster than the competition This will…

WinRAR is a powerful archive manager Win32 Linux Mac RAR files can usually compress content by 8 percent to 15 percent more than ZIP files can WinRAR is a powerful compression tool with many integrated additional functions to help you organize your compressed archives It can backup your data and reduce size of email attachments decompress RAR ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format WinRAR puts you ahead of the crowd when it comes to compression By consistently creating smaller archives WinRAR is often faster than the competition This will…

Sysinternals Suite By Mark Russinovich nbsp Updated March 30 2009 The Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities have been rolled up into a single Suite of tools This file contains the individual troubleshooting tools and help files It does not contain non troubleshooting tools like the BSOD Screen Saver or NotMyFault The Suite is a bundling of the following selected Sysinternals Utilities AccessChk AccessEnum AdExplorer AdRestore Autologon Autoruns BgInfo CacheSet ClockRes Contig Coreinfo Ctrl2Cap DebugView Desktops DiskExt DiskMon DiskView Disk Usage DU EFSDump FileMon Handle Hex2dec Junction LDMDump ListDLLs LiveKd LoadOrder LogonSessions NewSid NTFSInfo PageDefrag PendMoves PipeList PortMon ProcessExplorer Process Monitor ProcFeatures PsExec…

SiteLauncher is an add-on for Firefox that gives you a super-quick way to to open your favorite websites using only your keyboard. One special hotkey brings up the “Launcher” (see image), followed by a unique key to launch a site.Designed to be especially useful for quickly opening Web sites you use often throughout the day. For example, many people would probably want to add Google, Gmail, Facebook, and Twitter to SiteLauncher–what sites to include is entirely up to you.Because SiteLauncher appears on demand, it’s also useful for minimizing toolbar clutter.The default hotkey for the Launcher is Ctrl+Space (or Ctrl+Alt for…

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