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Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2000 12:07 pm Post subject:

For Windows 95/98/NT - When in Windows Explorer, if you want to open a file in anything other than default program associated with that extension, simply click on the file to highlight it, then hold down shift and right click on the file. There will be an option 'Open With...' where you can specify the program you want to open the file in.

For Windows ME/2000 - From what I can tell, this feature is built in to the standard right click in Windows Explorer (ie. holding down shift is not necessary).

Maybe this is a well known one, I dunno....but I use this shortcut ALL THE TIME. In any case, this is real handy when a file can theoretically be opened in multiple applications, and you wish to open it in a specific one that's not necessarily the default.

SDGR406

F.Y.I. - If you open a file type associated with Media Player from windows explorer rather than through Media Player, the file will not show up in the recently opened files listing. This can be handy in certain situations. NOTE - this has only been tested with Media Player 6.4, I don't know if the same is true with version 7.

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WIN + R = Display the Run dialog box.
WIN + M = Minimize all windows currently open.
WIN + Shift + M = Undo Minimize all windows
WIN + F1 = Start Help
WIN + E = Start Explorer
WIN + F = Start Find Files/Folders dialog box. (F3 also)
CNTL+ WIN + F = Start Find Computer dialog box.
WIN + TAB = Cycle through taskbar buttons.
WIN + BREAK = Display Systems Properties panel

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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2001 7:55 pm Post subject:

Lots of great shortcuts but I haven't seen this one.
If you open a window like explorer and then open another folder which spawns another window and another folder and another window hold down on the SHIFT key while closing the last window it close that window and all parent windows. Or you could choose any window inbetween the last and the first and from the window you are closing all the way back to the orginal is closed leaving those windows after it open. Most people choose to open explorer windows within the same but I use this all the time when going into Network Neighborhood!

Rover
"...She went to the cupboard to get her poor dog a bone,
when she bent over Rover took over and gave her a bone of her own!"

Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2001 12:59 pm Post subject:

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Lots of great shortcuts but I haven't seen this one.
If you open a window like explorer and then open another folder which spawns another window and another folder and another window hold down on the SHIFT key while closing the last window it close that window and all parent windows. Or you could choose any window inbetween the last and the first and from the window you are closing all the way back to the orginal is closed leaving those windows after it open. Most people choose to open explorer windows within the same but I use this all the time when going into Network Neighborhood!

Rover
"...She went to the cupboard to get her poor dog a bone,
when she bent over Rover took over and gave her a bone of her own!"

I have heard about this one so many times, yet have never once been able to get it to work... for example, I'll open something like four or five IE windows and hold shift on the last one while clicking X and only that one closes - am I doing something wrong?

SDGR406

Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2001 2:32 pm Post subject:

It has to be a parent Window. For example.... D-Click My computer, then something else inside My computer like C: drive, then windows.....etc. If you hold shift and click the X in the Windows folder, the other 2 will close too.

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