Windows 8 Shorcut keys

Windows 8 has Arrived and it will change how you use your computer.

 Keyboard shortcuts

First and foremost, if you haven’t historically been a fan of keyboard shortcuts, you must use them in Windows 8. By making the interface more touch-friendly, some features — like the power button — are now much harder to get to with the mouse. Fortunately, Microsoft has added a few keyboard shortcuts that mostly ameliorate the pain.

• Alt-F4 — In one of the best changes since Developer Preview, you can now close Metro apps using Alt-F4!
• Windows Key-I — This pops up the new system tray, which slides in from the right. If you hit Space or Enter, the Metro control panel opens. If you hit Up then Enter, you can shut down the computer. (This is the fastest way to shut down or restart!)
• Windows Key — If you have a multi-monitor setup, popping up the Start Screen with the Windows Key is actually rather painless, and an excellent way to check on your mail, instant messages, and so on. Tapping Windows Key again hides the Start Screen and returns you to the previous app (could be the Desktop, or another Metro app). If you start typing the name of an app from the Start Screen, Windows will automatically start looking for it (just like Windows 7)
• Windows Key-F — If specifically want to search through files, rather than apps, use Windows-Key-F. Windows Key-W searches settings.
• Windows Key-C — One of the most annoying menus to get to in Windows 8, with a keyboard and mouse anyway, is the Charms menu. Fortunately, you can also use Windows Key-C, and then the arrow keys.
• Alt-Tab — Alt-Tab, believe it or not, app switches through Desktop and Metro apps. This can take a bit of getting used to.
• Windows-Tab — This cycles through your Metro apps. I know, you’re probably devastated: The 3D “Aero Flip” from Windows Vista and 7 is no more!
• Windows Key-Z — In a Metro app, this opens the App Bar (i.e. the app’s menu). Unfortunately there aren’t any keyboard shortcuts for selecting items from the App Bar, but hopefully they’ll be added before retail release.
• Windows-Page Up — This switches which screen the Metro interface (i.e. the Start Screen and any Metro apps) appears on. The switch is very rapid (it’s kind of fun to just hit Windows-Page Up over and over…) Obviously, this is only useful if you have a multi-monitor setup.

These are a few that will make your life easier that is for sure.
The Metro Interface is scary at first for the computer savvy but it grows on you.

• Remember that Windows 7 is underneath Windows 8. Almost everything you could do in Windows 7, you can do in Windows 8. The Superbar (taskbar) is your friend! Pin everything to it! Jump lists still exist. Superbar thumbnails are still there. The System Tray is still there. The original Control Panel is still there. The significant difference is that you must go into the Metro interface to search for apps (which is a bit odd, in my opinion, but maybe Microsoft will provide another option before retail release).
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• Don’t be afraid of the Metro Start Screen. Embrace it! Remember that you can pin anything to the Start Screen (see right). Move your Start Screen tiles around. Name your tile groups. Remember, as soon as you log in, you can start typing the name of the app you want to open. You’re going to be seeing the Metro screen at least a few times per day, so try to love it.
• If you really don’t like the Start Screen, however… There is one thing you can do: You can make the Desktop automatically appear after you log in, instead of the Start Screen. There is unfortunately no known way to disable the Start Screen in Windows 8 Consumer Preview, however; you’re always going to see it when searching for apps.
• Press any key on the lock screen. Windows 8 features a new (very touch-oriented) lock screen. You can drag it upwards with your mouse (painful) or press any key on your keyboard (much easier).
• Run as administrator. Start Screen tiles still have right-click context menus, including “Run as administrator.” You can use the arrow keys to navigate the context menu. From this same menu you can pin apps to the taskbar/Superbar, too (but not Metro apps, sadly; hopefully this will be added!)
• You can navigate the Start Screen with the arrow keys. You can also use Page Up/Down to move quickly between the groups. This is much faster than panning with the mouse.

By Passing Password web pages using IE

From time to time it's necessary to search google and get answers but once in a while you'll find that perfect topic detailing your problem word for word only to find you need to subscribe in order to get that one answer you need NOW.

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Step 1

Using IE click on the cache page beneath the discovered link.

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Once the cached page comes up click on the link labeled Text-only Version in the top right of your screen.

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Step 3

Scroll down towards the bottom and you should discover the answer your looking for.

Removing Blackberry contact list

Have you ended up with one to many contact lists

1. Open your contacts
2. Press the blackberry button and chose options
3. Enter the following when in options rset
It will prompt for each one delete or save.

The ones you say yes to delete are gone

Change Windows 7 Key

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  1. Click on the Start Button and type: CMD (into the 'Search programs and files' field in the Start Menu)
  2. The Start Menu will show 'CMD.exe', 
  3. Right-click the CMD.exe file and select Run As Administrator.
  4. In the CMD window, type: slmgr.vbs -ipk <type your product key here>
  5. To activate windows after changing the key, type: slmgr.vbs -ato

Olympic Malware Fraud Alert -

Reports of fake emails, fake websites, and other scams that take advantage of people’s interest in the 2012 Olympics.
Here are our top tips for avoiding spam and malware of any kind:

• Use email that filters spam.
• Defend your PC against malicious software using malware bytes, norton, kaspersky sophos, Mcafee and others
• Make sure you are always up to date with your selcted Malware I suggest running and AV program and a Malware Program.
• Know where you are going and avoid downloading anything you are unsure of or if an e-mail looks suspicious it likely is.  If you don't recognize it Delete it.

Smart Phone Reboot Keys

Do you get frustrated when your smart phone locks up here are ways to reboot it with it removing the battery


BlackBerry Reboot
Reboot your Blackberry Device with out removing the battery
Alt+ ShiftCAP+ Delete will reboot a stuck blackberry


Reset your iPhone when it has locked up: 
To do this, hold the sleep/wake button and Home buttons simultaneously for a few seconds; the display will quickly wipe itself and you should see the black background and white Apple logo, signifying a reset well done.

Rebooting your locked Android Phone
Press the End key + Call key + Menu key at the same

DVD and Video players for Windows

Are you looking for a good program to play DVD's on  your PC or do you want to convert   few DVD's to a format you can watch on your computer.  You might even want to convert a file to a smaller format.

DVD Player and File Players.
The most popular one is Power DVD of course Media Player does a good job as well and is included in Windows.
A nice region free player that plays every file format that is in use
http://www.dvd-x-player.com/


Burning Ripping and Converting
For Ripping DVD's or converting files the easiest programs that I have found to use is Fast DVD Ripper and Fast Video Convertor

You can get the files from the following site
http://www.dvdfast.net/index.html

Other free Video Convertors
http://www.dvd-x-player.com/download.html

There are more out there but these are ones that I have tried and a found easy to learn if you are a beginner or an advanced users you will have no problem with any of these.

How To Rename Desktop Icon on Blackberry

After connecting your Blackberry to a BES (Blackberry Enterprise Server) to receive your corporate email over a secured connection, the default name given to your corporate inbox is "Desktop." Although this name serves its purpose, it's a bit impersonal. A BES administrator has the ability to do just about everything on your Blackberry from forcing the use of a password to preventing you from downloading new ringtones. However, she cannot change the name of your BES email account on your phone, but you can.

Difficulty:

 

Easy

Instructions

things you'll need:

• USB cable
• Desktop Manager

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  Connect your Blackberry to the computer you use for work by connecting one end of the USB cable to the computer and the other end of the cable to your Blackberry.
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  Open the Desktop Manager software by going to "Start" and then navigating to "Programs," then "Blackberry" on the computer. Every user connected to the BES has Desktop Manager installed on their computers to allow for tethered syncing.
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  Click on "E-Mail Setting" and then click on "Advanced E-Mail Settings." Change the email name to your desired name and then click on "Okay" to update the device in Dessktop 6 Choose Device Options and Enterprise E-mail.
• 4   Disconnect the device from your computer and close the Desktop Manager.
  
  

Cordless phone Frequencies and what they mean to you

Corldess Phones have changed over the years, are you unsure what to buy are you wondering why you have issues with your wireless internet connection at home when someone is on the phone.

The two most common upto a few a years ago were

• 2.4 GHz (allocated in 1998)
• 5.8 GHz (allocated in 2003 due to crowding on the 2.4 GHz band

The 2.4 GHz phone was sold along with the 5.8GHz until recently when both were dropped and replaced with DCET 6.0

The 2.4 GHz phones were dropped since most home wireless devices now use the 2.4GHz range and were causing issues with dropped calls and slow internet connections.

Which one is best for you if you can still find a 5.8GHz phone there are no issues with them however they are hard to find.

The recently allocated 1.9 GHz band is used by the popular DECT phone standard and is considered more secure than the other shared frequencies.  This is a good thing since people with Scanners used to be able to listen in on conversations and you would sometimes end up with cross talk before DCET.

DCET 6.0 brings advantages over The 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz band are increasingly being used for a host of other devices, including baby monitor, microwave oven, Bluetooth, wireless LAN; thus, it is likely that a cordless phone will suffer interference from signals broadcast by those devices.

If you are looking for a new phone DCET 6.0 is the way to go.

Office 365 The next Version of Office

The next version of Office is available for Preview and can be downloaded by anyone

The Microsoft Office 365 Preview can be found here

http://www.microsoft.com/office/cxm/en-gb/proplus/?WT.mc_id=eml_en-gb_RM-Preview_begin-pp_cta#welcome

I have been using it for just over a week and so far I am rather impressed with the features that are in it.

It takes some getting used to especially outlook as Outlook has received a face lift for the good.

The major differences is Contacts is now People in the Shortcuts within Outlook

Key features that are new will be in my next posting

Useful Websites for the mobile User

Do you love your mobile phone?

Do you want to be able to do more or just need technical help here are a few useful sites for you

Blackberry users

www.crackberry.com – tips and tricks as well as new OS versions for you to install to name a few things on the site

www.blackberrycool.com

Android Based Phones and Tablets

www.androidcentral.com – Tips and tricks for your Android device

Iphone

www.imore.com – tips tricks and what is new in the world of iphones

Windows Based Phones

www.wpcentral.com – Tips tricks and Apps for the Windows based Phone

What is Office 365

A new Microsoft Office has arrived: Office 365. It is Office transformed into a powerful service that keeps you securely connected to all your personal documents, notes and presentations.

It comes with all the things you know and love about Office, but it's also different from the version of Office you have today in a few exciting ways.

Office now has the ability to be with you on any device.  Your Documents are securely stored in the Cloud on your Sky Drive for easy access from anywhere.

Office 365 only works on Windows 7 or Windows 8.

• 1 It´s got the applications you love.

It includes the latest version of the applications you trust like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote,
Publisher and Access.

• 2 It goes where you go.

Sign in, and your Office applications, documents and personal settings are right there, just the way you left them.

• 3 You can access your files from almost anywhere.

Save your work to the cloud, and it´s easy to access, edit, and share on the go.

• 4 You´ll have access to Office on more devices.

In the future, Office will be available on more devices and different platforms.

• 5 You can get Office when you´re away from your PC.

Stream a full-featured version of Office on any internet-connected PC* with Office on Demand.

Word Common Shortcuts

Document Management

Ctrl+n    Create new document

Ctrl+o    Open document

Ctrl+w   Close document

Ctrl+s    Save document

F12         Save document as

Ctrl+p    Print document/ print preview

Ctrl+F6 Switch between multiple Word documents

Alt, then f, r        Open Recent (file, recent)

Navigate Around the Document

Arrow Left/Arrow Right Jump one character to the left / to the right

 Ctrl+Arrow Left/ Ctrl+Arrow Right Jump one word to the left / to the right End/Home Jump to the end of a line / beginning of a line Arrow Down/Arrow Up Jump one line down / one line down

 Ctrl+Arrow Down/

Ctrl+Arrow Up Jump one paragraph down / one paragraph up Page Down/Page Up Jump one screen down/ one screen up

Alt+Ctrl+Page Down/

 Alt+Ctrl+Page Up Jump to top / to bottom of visible window

Ctrl+End/Ctrl+Home Jump to end / to beginning of document

 Ctrl+g or f5 Go to a page, bookmark, footnote, table, comment, graphic, or other location

 Alt+Ctrl+z Go back to previously edited location in document (up to 4 places) Shift+F5 Go to a the last change or revision. Also works after opening document. Ctrl+Shift+F5 Set, go to and edit bookmarks Alt+Ctrl+Home Set Browse Options. Press the arrow keys to select an option, and then press enter to browse through a document by using the selected option

 Ctrl+Page Down/Ctrl+Page Up Move to next / move to previous browser object as set in Browse Options

Undo copy and Paste

Ctrl+z Undo the last action

 Ctrl+y Redo the last action

 Ctrl+c Copy selected text or object

 Ctrl+x Cut selected text or object

 Ctrl+v Paste selected text or object

 Ctrl+Shift+c Copy text format

 Ctrl+Shift+v Paste text format

 Ctrl+Alt+v Paste special

 Ctrl+v, then Ctrl, then k Paste and keep Source Formatting

 Ctrl+v, then Ctrl, then t Paste and keep Text only Ctrl+F3 Cut to the Spike (separate clipboard) Ctrl+Shift+F3 Paste from the Spike

 Alt+Shift+r Copy the header or footer from previous section of the document

Useful WIndows Shrotcut Keys

Key combinations have been a useful part of Windows since the early days and most people don't even know they exist here is a list that will work with every version of Windows that is in use today

Windows system key combinations

• F1: Help
• CTRL+ESC: Open Start menu
• Windows Logo Opens Start menu 
• ALT+TAB: Switch between open programs
• ALT+F4: Quit program
• SHIFT+DELETE: Delete item permanently
• Windows Logo+L: Lock the computer (without using CTRL+ALT+DELETE)
• Windows Logo + P brings up monitor options for multiple monitors 

Windows program key combinations

• CTRL+C: Copy
• CTRL+X: Cut
• CTRL+V: Paste
• CTRL+Z: Undo
• CTRL+B: Bold
• CTRL+U: Underline
• CTRL+I: Italic

Mouse click/keyboard modifier combinations for shell objects

• SHIFT+right click: Displays a shortcut menu containing alternative commands
• SHIFT+double click: Runs the alternate default command (the second item on the menu)
• ALT+double click: Displays properties
• SHIFT+DELETE: Deletes an item immediately without placing it in the Recycle Bin

General keyboard-only commands

• F1: Starts Windows Help
• F10: Activates menu bar options
• SHIFT+F10 Opens a shortcut menu for the selected item (this is the same as right-clicking an object
• CTRL+ESC: Opens the Start menu (use the ARROW keys to select an item)
• CTRL+ESC or ESC: Selects the Start button (press TAB to select the taskbar, or press SHIFT+F10 for a context menu)
• CTRL+SHIFT+ESC: Opens Windows Task Manager
• ALT+DOWN ARROW: Opens a drop-down list box
• ALT+TAB: Switch to another running program (hold down the ALT key and then press the TAB key to view the task-switching window)
• SHIFT: Press and hold down the SHIFT key while you insert a CD-ROM to bypass the automatic-run feature
• ALT+SPACE: Displays the main window's System menu (from the System menu, you can restore, move, resize, minimize, maximize, or close the window)
• ALT+- (ALT+hyphen): Displays the Multiple Document Interface (MDI) child window's System menu (from the MDI child window's System menu, you can restore, move, resize, minimize, maximize, or close the child window)
• CTRL+TAB: Switch to the next child window of a Multiple Document Interface (MDI) program
• ALT+underlined letter in menu: Opens the menu
• ALT+F4: Closes the current window
• CTRL+F4: Closes the current Multiple Document Interface (MDI) window
• ALT+F6: Switch between multiple windows in the same program (for example, when the Notepad Find dialog box is displayed, ALT+F6 switches between the Find dialog box and the main Notepad window)

Shell objects and general folder/Windows Explorer shortcuts

For a selected object:

• F2: Rename object
• F3: Find all files
• CTRL+X: Cut
• CTRL+C: Copy
• CTRL+V: Paste
• SHIFT+DELETE: Delete selection immediately, without moving the item to the Recycle Bin
• ALT+ENTER: Open the properties for the selected object

To copy a file

Press and hold down the CTRL key while you drag the file to another folder.

To create a shortcut

Press and hold down CTRL+SHIFT while you drag a file to the desktop or a folder.

General folder/shortcut control

• F4: Selects the Go To A Different Folder box and moves down the entries in the box (if the toolbar is active in Windows Explorer)
• F5: Refreshes the current window.
• F6: Moves among panes in Windows Explorer
• CTRL+G: Opens the Go To Folder tool (in Windows 95 Windows Explorer only)
• CTRL+Z: Undo the last command
• CTRL+A: Select all the items in the current window
• BACKSPACE: Switch to the parent folder
• SHIFT+click+Close button: For folders, close the current folder plus all parent folders

Windows Explorer tree control

• Numeric Keypad *: Expands everything under the current selection
• Numeric Keypad +: Expands the current selection
• Numeric Keypad -: Collapses the current selection.
• RIGHT ARROW: Expands the current selection if it is not expanded, otherwise goes to the first child
• LEFT ARROW: Collapses the current selection if it is expanded, otherwise goes to the parent

Properties control

• CTRL+TAB/CTRL+SHIFT+TAB: Move through the property tabs

Accessibility shortcuts

• Press SHIFT five times: Toggles StickyKeys on and off
• Press down and hold the right SHIFT key for eight seconds: Toggles FilterKeys on and off
• Press down and hold the NUM LOCK key for five seconds: Toggles ToggleKeys on and off
• Left ALT+left SHIFT+NUM LOCK: Toggles MouseKeys on and off
• Left ALT+left SHIFT+PRINT SCREEN: Toggles high contrast on and off

Microsoft Natural Keyboard keys

• Windows Logo: Start menu
• Windows Logo+R: Run dialog box
• Windows Logo+M: Minimize all
• SHIFT+Windows Logo+M: Undo minimize all
• Windows Logo+F1: Help
• Windows Logo+E: Windows Explorer
• Windows Logo+F: Find files or folders
• Windows Logo+D: Minimizes all open windows and displays the desktop
• CTRL+Windows Logo+F: Find computer
• CTRL+Windows Logo+TAB: Moves focus from Start, to the Quick Launch toolbar, to the system tray (use RIGHT ARROW or LEFT ARROW to move focus to items on the Quick Launch toolbar and the system tray)
• Windows Logo+TAB: Cycle through taskbar buttons
• Windows Logo+Break: System Properties dialog box
• Application key: Displays a shortcut menu for the selected item

Microsoft Natural Keyboard with IntelliType software installed

• Windows Logo+L: Log off Windows
• Windows Logo+P: Starts Print Manager
• Windows Logo+C: Opens Control Panel
• Windows Logo+V: Starts Clipboard
• Windows Logo+K: Opens Keyboard Properties dialog box
• Windows Logo+I: Opens Mouse Properties dialog box
• Windows Logo+A: Starts Accessibility Options (if installed)
• Windows Logo+SPACEBAR: Displays the list of Microsoft IntelliType shortcut keys
• Windows Logo+S: Toggles CAPS LOCK on and off

Dialog box keyboard commands

• TAB: Move to the next control in the dialog box
• SHIFT+TAB: Move to the previous control in the dialog box
• SPACEBAR: If the current control is a button, this clicks the button. If the current control is a check box, this toggles the check box. If the current control is an option, this selects the option.
• ENTER: Equivalent to clicking the selected button (the button with the outline)
• ESC: Equivalent to clicking the Cancel button
• ALT+underlined letter in dialog box item: Move to the corresponding item