Windows Tricks, tweaks and tips thread
category: general [glöplog]
u=utility manager ;)
Hold down Ctrl and then move your mouse/trackball scroll wheel up or down. This resizes fonts on the fly in most applications. Also works in a Gnome desktop. Not sure about others...
HKLM/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/FileSystem
NTFSDisable8Dot3NameCreation=1
DisableNTFSLastAccessUpdate=1
NTFSDisable8Dot3NameCreation=1
DisableNTFSLastAccessUpdate=1
winkey+r - run menu
winkey+pause - system info
winkey+pause - system info
Copy and paste the following into a .txt file with notepad call it "Dir list.BAT" or whatever, put this in your Send to Folder.
Code:
dir %1 /A /B /OG > c:\tmpdir.txt
call notepad c:\tmpdir.txt
del c:\tmpdir.txt
"Windows key" ? :o
WTF up with backslash and HTML, I guess HTML no like universally? anyone know how to overcome this and display backslash as intended?
Quote:
eg. did you know you can actually select three colors, not just two, at once in MSPaint? Almost better than Photoshop!
... almost. but not really...
MACOS X TIPS
you wanna move dock without touching settings. ok hold shift and then drag dock from divider between programs and trashcan. wow! it moves to left side, down, and right side without opening dock settings!
you wanna move dock without touching settings. ok hold shift and then drag dock from divider between programs and trashcan. wow! it moves to left side, down, and right side without opening dock settings!
i often use windows+d and alt+tab.
pwnz! errr...
pwnz! errr...
Nice OSX one, if you have screen zooming enabled - hold control and move the mouse wheel to zoom in and out of the screen. Also of course, hold shift and press various buttons to see the nice 3d interface effects in slow motion...
