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by **Junior_co** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 3:31 pm

I was thinking about all the little "hidden" features that everybody seems to know one or twoi of.....

Thought that we could all learn a little trick on how to use Windows a little better...

Here is mine.....

When ever you are typing in an ".com" address into windows Internet Explorer (works with Firefox too) just type in the name and hold the CTRL button and hit ENTER. It will add the www, the .com and then go there for you

Example.. type pctechforums hold CTRL press ENTER

next thing you know, you are here! It's a little thing but after you do it a few times it becomes second nature and you'll find yourself doing it all the time....

Don't know of any tricks for other domains though

So, now what's your trick??

Junior

by **th3_d0n** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 8:19 pm

wow that's cool. didn't kno that one.

You probably all kno this one but it's quite funny:

Open a blank Word document, Type '=rand(200,99)', press Enter
not rly much of an XP trick i know, but hey.

And also, try making a new folder and call it "con"

:lol:

by **venney** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 8:28 pm

In a computing lession a good mate or mine n the dons called edd showed us a trick

Alt, shift n print screen n then press ok, and dont worrie you can change it back bi doing the same thing.
It makes everythign big lol

venney

by **peahead** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 9:38 pm

waw thats cool that venney well i havent got a tip or trick dont no any really lol keep them coming though

by **fishoutofwater579** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 10:22 pm

If you push shift and enter after putting in the domain you can get a .net domain.

by **PCguy** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 10:25 pm

by **venney** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 10:42 pm

by **Limp** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 10:43 pm

by **venney** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 10:51 pm

by **Gecko** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 12:03 am

To bring up the “Open With” window for any file type:
Highlight/Select the file then press and hold Shift and right click on the selected file
In the popup will be the “Open With” option

by **badpolarbear** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 1:41 am

If you do a search for chocolate pecan cookies you will come up with about 20,000 sites with every possible combination of chocolate, pecan and cookies. If you do a search with "chocolate pecan cookies" using the quotation marks you will get recipes for chocolate pecan cookies

by **venney** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 4:41 pm

by **badpolarbear** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 1:58 am

by **Junior_co** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 3:16 am

That's a great one BPB... I've ALWAYS HATED those arrows...

Junior

by **Dave_Lethal** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 8:27 am

Here's something I posted a while ago in some other topic

If you hold down Ctrl and move the scroll wheel on the mouse, you can change the size of web page fonts.

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