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For quick reference, click on the item of interest to you:
Creating Shortcuts
A Shortcut To Quick View
Create Shortcuts from Start Menu Items
Shortcut For Opening A Folder
Shortcut for Starting Programs
Shortcut to the Properties Sheet
Adding a URL shortcut to the Desktop
Explorer Keystroke Shortcuts
Create a Printer Shortcut
Desktop E-Mail Shortcuts
Creating Shortcuts
You can create shortcuts to your favorite Windows Program
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A Shortcut To Quick View
Quick View is a fantastic utility. It allows you to view the
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Create Shortcuts from Start Menu Items
Some programs that you install do not place a shortcut on
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Shortcut For Opening A Folder
To quickly open a folder that you use regularly, check out the
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Shortcut for Starting Programs
In Windows, there are many ways to accomplish a single task.
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Shortcut to the Properties Sheet
Quickly access the Properties sheet of a file (document or
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Adding a URL shortcut to the Desktop
If you have favorite web sites you visit every day, or every
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Explorer Keystroke Shortcuts
Take advantage of Windows Explorer's tree view by using
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Create a Printer Shortcut
Print anything you want in a snap by creating a printer
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Desktop E-Mail Shortcuts
Most of us have people we e-mail frequently. If you'd like a
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by right-clicking the program name in the Start menu or
Explorer, dragging it to the screen, and letting go of the
mouse button. This should do it, but if you have an older
version, you may have to then choose Create Shortcut(s)
and drag the box to your desktop.
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contents of a file without having to open or install its
originating program. Access Quick View by right-clicking
a file, then selecting it from the context menu. Another way
to access it, however, is to add a shortcut to Quick View on
your desktop for drag-and-drop access. To create the desktop
shortcut, right-click on a blank area of the desktop and choose
New, Shortcut from the context menu. Type:
X:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\VIEWERS\QUIKVIEW.EXE
in the Command Line (where "X:\WINDOWS" is the drive letter
and folder where Windows is installed on your system), and
click Next. Give your shortcut a meaningful name (such as
"Quick View") and click Finish. Then, to view a file in
Quick View, simply drag the file to the new shortcut and
drop.
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your desktop by default. What all programs do however, is
create an entry in your Start menu (usually in a Programs
submenu). If you would like to add a shortcut for a new program
to your desktop, first navigate to the item in your Start menu,
then press Ctrl+Shift while you drag and drop the item to your
desktop. When prompted, choose Create Shortcut Here. This
creates a shortcut on your desktop while leaving the item
in its original spot on the Start menu.
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Run command. Click the Start button and choose Run. In the
Open text box, type the exact name of the folder
(e.g., MyDocuments), and press Enter (or click OK). (If the folder
name has space, enclose the name in quotation marks.) Your
folder will open in My Computer.
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This is confusing to a beginner, but as you familiarize yourself
with Windows, you'll find it a great advantage. Because there
are so many options for things, here is another way you can
create a shortcut for a program:
Click the Start button and choose Run
(or use the keyboard command of WINDOWS+R).
Then drag the icon of the program you want to open to the Run
dialog box, and click OK to start the program. You can also open
a registered document file in its originating program using this
technique.
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program) from My Computer, Windows Explorer, or the Desktop
by holding down the Alt key as you double-click the file or
shortcut. This method is an alternative to right-clicking the
file and choosing Properties from the context menu.
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time you go online, you can make a quick access to them
outside of your browser and onto your desktop. To do so,
drag a URL or hyperlink from the browser window to the desktop.
Next time, merely double-click the shortcut to launch your default
browser and load the page you want. By having a selection of
your favorite sites, you can quickly decide which site you want to
visit first thing each morning without having to navigate through your
browser bookmarks, or remember long URL's.
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these easy keystroke shortcuts to maneuver through the list
of folders and drives. Press the Tab key until the focus is
in the left pane of Explorer, then use the up and down arrow
keys to move through the list of folders and drives. To expand
a folder, press the right arrow key. To close it, press the left
arrow key. When you reach the folder you are looking for, press
the Tab key to hop over to the right pane and use the up and
down arrow keys to scroll through the file list.
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shortcut. Select Settings/Control Panel from the Start
menu. Double-click the Printers icon. Once you're in the
Printers folder, drag your printer icon onto the desktop. A
prompt window will appear confirming that you want to
create this shortcut. Click the Yes button. You can now
drag any file onto your new printer shortcut, and the print
job will begin immediately.
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quick way to e-mail them, you can make an e-mail shortcut
on your desktop or your Quick Launch toolbar. When you wish
to send the person of choice an e-mail, all you have to do is
double click the shortcut and your default e-mail program will
open with a new message started, already addressed for you.
Do note however, this does not work with web based e-mail
in most cases. If you use a program such as Outlook, Netscape
etc., this should work great. Here is how to set this up:
1. Right-click an empty area of your desktop and select New,
Shortcut from the resulting menu.
2. In the "Command Line" field, type in:
mailto:email@address
Email@address is the e-mail address you want to mail to mail
to. For instance, if the person you are e-mailing has the e-mail
address myfriend@congo.net, that is what you type in. Be sure
to add the colon after the "mailto" part. Click Next.
3. The last step is to give your shortcut a name of your choice.
Your shortcut should be all set to use. Click it and your default
e-mail client should launch with the recipient's address in the "To"
field. One more note - you can make a generic new e-mail shortcut
where you would have to type in the specific e-mail address by just
putting mailto: (no quotes) in the command line field.