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Mark Minasi
Chief cook and bottle washer
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 Posted - 07/21/2006 : 1:50:27 PM
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As requested... feel free to add notes on any features of any common app that you think most people don't know.
PLEASE, though, to keep the thread useful, please discuss or comment on any of these features in separate threads. Thanks!
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Mark
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Lisa
Old Timer
USA
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Posted - 07/21/2006 : 4:44:04 PM
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Here's a neat trick I just recently learned for listing events in Event Viewer for troubleshooting purposes.
In event viewer, open up an event. On the Event Properties Window, and below the down arrow, there is a button for clipboard. Click the button, now go to Word, Notepad or Wordpad and press Control+V or click on paste. There you go! All pertinent info is there.
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Lisa O'Hara
If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning. --Catherine Aird |
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WillW
Welcome Newcomer
USA
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Posted - 07/21/2006 : 6:59:27 PM
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Here are a couple of Outlook 2003 ones:
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One that I use all the time that I'm not surprised more people know about is color coding emails in Outlook (even other IT people ask me how I did it when they see my screen).
Like most IT people, I get in excess of 100 emails a day between regular emails, automated alerts from various monitoring applications, and notifications of updates to cases assigned to me in the network admin queue of our helpdesk software. So, using colors helps me quickly find email messages, because despite my best intentions my inbox tends to stay with more than 1000 emails in it. For example, messages coming from "helpdesk" are red (case notifications, outage/maintenance announcements, etc.). Emails from other members of the network admin team are one color, from my director another color, from the desktop admin team another color, and from our monitoring apps yet another color.
In Outlook 2003, click Tools->Organize. While you can go to "using colors," that doesn't give you the full functionality. Instead click "automatic formatting" at the top right. Click Add to add a rule, and then click Font and pick a color (and/or change the font).
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A second organizational feature of Outlook 2003 that I don't know if many people are aware of is Search Folders. If you View->Folder List, they are down right before you get to Public Folders. There are a few built-in search folders, but the power of them comes in creating your own. One of my first stops in the morning is my search folder that consolidates all of the alert emails from our monitoring apps. We use SolarWinds Orion, MOM2005, NetIQ (phasing out), HP OpenView (phasing out), and HP SIM. Right click Search Folders, and click New Search Folder. To create a search folder for one particular email address, just go with the wizard based options there. To consolidate multiple email addresses into a single search folder, go down to the bottom and select Create a Custom Search Folder. Then click Choose and then Criteria. You can specify whatever conditions you want. For my example, I added the email addresses that each of our monitoring apps sends from. In addition to being able to read all alert emails in one place, it also makes mailbox management easier because you can just select them all in the search folder and whack them, without having to go through your inbox picking them out.
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<--Will--> (insert letters of credentials here)
http://www.willwillis.us
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MorQ
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Lisa
Old Timer
USA
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Posted - 10/11/2006 : 1:06:20 PM
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This was previously under Misc - Weird Notepad hidden log file feature (Create a log file). Check out this thread.
http://web2.minasi.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=18909 |
Lisa O'Hara
If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning. --Catherine Aird |
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stash
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USA
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Posted - 10/22/2006 : 3:30:49 PM
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Here's a neat little Vista trick I just discovered.
As you are probably aware, you can open the 'start' menu and type a program name in the search field and then hit enter to run it. So here's the trick...type your program name and then hit CTRL-SHIFT-ENTER. This will launch that app elevated.
This is a great way to get an elevated cmd prompt quickly...winkey, cmd, CTRL-SHIFT-ENTER. |
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Lisa
Old Timer
USA
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Posted - 10/25/2006 : 4:12:23 PM
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I just learned this today.
To lock the screen, try this: windows key + L
And to think I've been using control+alt+delete, enter all these years!
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Lisa O'Hara
If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning. --Catherine Aird |
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MorQ
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Posted - 10/25/2006 : 8:15:12 PM
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| That is sweet Lisa, I as you have been doing the triple digit thing for a long time. Thanks. |
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stash
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nickw
Sadly oft-gone father of two
Ireland
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Playwell
Honorable But Hopeless Addict
Netherlands
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Posted - 10/26/2006 : 04:22:04 AM
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For IE:
I like the 'alt-left arrow' for back, and alt-right for forward.
The space bar for page down, shift spacebar for page up.
Alt-d for address bar
Excel:
ctrl-space bar selects row
shift-space bar selects column
ctrl-1 for cell properties
cmd:
F1 to recall the previous line charachter by character
F2 to copy a part of the previous line
F3 to go to the first line in history
F4 to delete a part of the current command line up to the given character
F5 to go to the previous line (arrow up)
F6 Abort character (^Z)
F7 History of command lines given
F8 Same as F5
F9 to recall a previous command
General:
F2 to rename
Alt-enter for properties
Shift-F10 during install/sysprep summons the command prompt as system
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'People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. '
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Edited by - Playwell on 10/26/2006 04:30:36 AM |
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mitachu
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Posted - 10/24/2007 : 12:00:23 PM
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Nothing special but a keystroke that I use a lot.
Alt + Space + N
Quickly minimises the current window.
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rcarpenter
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Posted - 02/05/2008 : 4:25:34 PM
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Originally posted by mitachu
Nothing special but a keystroke that I use a lot.
Alt + Space + N
Quickly minimises the current window.
=Windows Key + M |
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mitachu
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Posted - 02/05/2008 : 5:50:42 PM
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| I seem to be able to find the Alt+Space keys easier than the Windows key for some reason. |
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cj_berlin
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Posted - 02/05/2008 : 5:56:40 PM
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Originally posted by mitachu
I seem to be able to find the Alt+Space keys easier than the Windows key for some reason.
Tim,
have you, by any chance, got a MacBook? 
CJ
EDIT: sorry dude, it's not like I'd set out to make a sport of you on this forum... but I couldn't let this one go by either... |
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sixdoubleo
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Posted - 04/15/2009 : 2:50:35 PM
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Since somebody bumped the thread I'll add to it...
I am a command-line and run command junkie. When you need to launch any office app do it this way...
Windows-Key R : winword
Windows-Key R : excel
Windows-Key R : powerpnt
Windows-Key R : calc
and so on...
Also from the Run command:
mailto:anybody@theiremailaddress.com
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aquadodo
Welcome Newcomer
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Posted - 09/09/2009 : 3:07:45 PM
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In most web browsers typing in just the site name (e.g. google) then pressing ctrl + enter will add http://www. and .com then go to the website.
Windows Key + Pause/Break will open the properties of My Computer.
Ctrl + Shift + Esc will open the Task Manager. |
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CJBalsamo
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Posted - 09/11/2009 : 10:29:15 AM
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| I found myself in a situation last week where I needed to provide a complete SQL Server configuration to one of my coworkers in a hurry. MSInfo32 did the trick! From a Windows run command (Windows key + R) or a command prompt, type "MSInfo32". This will bring up the System Information screen. Select File, Export, enter an output path, and click save. It may take a few minutes depending on the size of the server or PC. The resultant text output is almost everything you ever wanted to know about your computer configuration in text file. The info includes hardware configuration, computer components, Start-up programs, software, and drivers. |
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Mark Minasi
Chief cook and bottle washer
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Posted - 09/11/2009 : 7:41:07 PM
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| Neat one, Aquadodo. I didn't know that. |
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smeogul
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Posted - 09/12/2009 : 4:52:12 PM
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msinfo is a wonderful tool and so are the reports. I like to get mine this way, you'll get the text file and the gui that you can open anywhere. (ok, sometimes/randomly it will bitch and moan and open the local msinfo32 gui on you if you open them on Vista - stupid computers). change the path and you have a nice central repository of all the windows devices on the network. a hyperlink in an Excel spreadsheet will save you hours in asset management :)
@ echo off
: copies MSInfo32 information to text and NFO file - should be run locally on the computer. A computer startup script option is best.
: this one does the localhost - for remote computers substitute the computer name for localhost.
start /wait msinfo32 /computer localhost /report "c:\%computername%_msinfo32.txt" & start /wait msinfo32 /computer localhost /nfo "c:\%computername%_msinfo32.nfo"
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Playwell
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Posted - 09/13/2009 : 4:29:36 PM
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Win7: Winkey + arrow keys place windows left/right/max/minimize
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'People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. '
Quote by Isaac Asimov
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JSCLMEDAVE
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Posted - 09/13/2009 : 4:36:27 PM
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quote:
Originally posted by Playwell
Win7: Winkey + arrow keys place windows left/right/max/minimize
DO NOT DO THIS as it will mess up your desktop icons...
I had to figure out what a user was doing to turn their screen sideways. They were hitting - Ctrl - Alt - -> (Right Arrow key)
Not sure why you would want this but it's there... |
Tim-
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Jazzy
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Posted - 09/13/2009 : 5:28:57 PM
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I had to figure out what a user was doing to turn their screen sideways. They were hitting - Ctrl - Alt - -> (Right Arrow key)
Not sure why you would want this but it's there...
This is a driver feature, I think Intel. It's not generic in Windows. It cracks me up everytime I see this question on a message board. |
Jetze Mellema
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Former MVP (2005-2012)
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Xenophane
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Posted - 09/14/2009 : 02:08:01 AM
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| Jazzy is right, it is an Intel driver feature. |
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sixdoubleo
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Posted - 09/15/2009 : 5:16:38 PM
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While these are documented, they were new to me so I thought I'd share. I actually found the mouse gestures in Windows 7 by accident. I'm sure most people discovered the maximize and side-by-wide features the first time they dragged a window to the top of the screen or the side of the screen.
But I found another one by accident a couple weeks ago. I was sitting on the phone walking somebody through a regedit operation. In my lack of patience, I would grab the title bar of my regedit window and just move it around the screen. Well depending on how I moved it (which I later learned was the windows "shake" move) I noticed that ALL other windows minimized (except for regedit). I tried again with another window...Yep...way cool! |
Edited by - sixdoubleo on 09/15/2009 5:17:45 PM |
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itechsolutions
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JSCLMEDAVE
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Posted - 09/15/2009 : 6:21:53 PM
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| WOW! Another cool link to read! Thanks Steve! |
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aquadodo
Welcome Newcomer
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Posted - 09/24/2009 : 2:36:42 PM
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Originally posted by Mark Minasi
Neat one, Aquadodo. I didn't know that.
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Originally posted by itechsolutions
Aquadodo - The Computer Properties one is going to save me a lot in the long run. :)
Glad I could share something useful  Let's see if I can think of anything else...
In Vista it's a pain getting to the Network Connections so in the Run box enter "ncpa.cpl". This works in XP and Win 7 also. All the default Windows cpl (control panel item extenstion) are located in %systemroot%\system32. |
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Mark Minasi
Chief cook and bottle washer
USA
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Posted - 09/28/2009 : 6:22:42 PM
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| Naaah... Darren Mar-Elia posted that one a few years ago.<g> |
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aquadodo
Welcome Newcomer
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Posted - 10/09/2009 : 4:08:58 PM
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Well I tried but let me attempt to redeem myself. I didn't notice these:
Windows Key + E opens Windows Explorer
Windows Key + F opens Search
This one I learned recently. Someone else probably already knows it but I think it's worth mentioning.
You can create your own shortcut keys with any shortcut link you create. Open properties of the shortcut and on the shortcut tab select the shortcut key box and press any key. The default shortcut keystroke is "ctrl + alt + key". You can also hold "ctrl + shift + key" or "alt + shift + key". |
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Mark Minasi
Chief cook and bottle washer
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Posted - 10/12/2009 : 2:35:53 PM
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| It's amazing how many "windows key plus" combos Win 7 has. I was feeling homesick for "flip 3D" until I found winkey+tab.<g> |
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