Als u ooit meer dan één punt in een tijd in een programma van Vensters moet selecteren toen kunt u de duidelijke controlesleutel gebruiken, over het algemeen CTRL. Ik vind deze techniek bijzonder nuttig om mijn e-mail te behandelen. Ik kan onderdrukken CTRL en klik beurtelings op elke spam e-mail, dan neem weg mijn vinger CTRL en raak Schrap de sleutel doet hen van de hand zo allen.

Het gebruiken CTRL om veelvoud te selecteren werkt de punten ook goed in de Ontdekkingsreiziger van het Venster - de software u gebruikt om dossiers en programma's binnen Vensters te doorbladeren. Om te proberen stelt het uit uw Mijn omslag van Documenten open, onderdrukt CTRL sleutel, en linker-klik op een paar punten met de muis. Elk punt zou moeten worden geselecteerd aangezien u op het klikt. Wanneer u vrijgeeft CTRL sleutel u om alle dossiers te slepen en kunt te laten vallen, of op om het even wie van hen met de rechtermuisknop klikt om een proces - zoals schrapping, besnoeiing of exemplaar - op hen toe te passen. Een veel snellere manier om een taak op vele dossiers uit te voeren dan afzonderlijk doend elke één.

U kunt ook gebruiken CTRL zeer belangrijke en „lasso“ punten in Ontdekkingsreiziger. Aan „lasso“ de punten onderdrukken de linkermuisknoop en slepen het om een doos te creëren die verscheidene punten in één gaat selecteert. U kunt onderdrukken CTRL de sleutel en gebruikt deze techniek om verscheidene reeksen punten te selecteren. Zie de volgende video voor een demonstratie van deze techniek in actie.

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U kunt opgemerkt hebben dat het menu van het Begin een punt genoemd „Looppas“ heeft. De faciliteit van de Looppas is een weinig een werpen-rug aan de dagen van Dos, toen wij bevelen moesten typen om programma's in werking te stellen eerder dan op pictogrammen tweemaal te klikken. Niettemin, is het nog een nuttig hulpmiddel in het milieu van Vensters.

U kunt de doos van de Looppas openen door op „Looppas“ in het menu van het Begin te klikken, of u kunt de toetsenbordkortere weg gebruiken: onderdruk een een sleutel en pers van Vensters R.

De sleutels van vensters have this symbol on, and are generally located near the Alt keys.


Once you have opened up the Run box, simply type in a command and hit return. To get you started here is a list of commands and the programs that they open.

calc - calculator
notepad - unsurprisingly this opens the notepad, which is a simple text editor
iexplore - Internet Explorer
firefox - Firefox
winword - Word
excel - (I think you can guess)
powerpnt - PowerPoint

[For an exhaustive list of other commands see this article on FixMyXP.com]

Another advantage of using the Run dialog is that you can quickly browse to a folder on any drive, for example you can open the 'C drive' by typing C: in the box.

The dialog will offer a drop down menu of options, so if you were to type c:\doc it should offer...

You can open any menu using your keyboard. As you may have noticed, each menu title has one of its letters underlined. To open the menu, hold down the Alt key and press the key corresponding to the underlined letter.

In the case of the above menu, Alt & F will open the 'File' menu, Alt & E will open the 'Edit' menu, and so on.

Once the menu is open, you can use the cursor keys to navigate: up and down will move the focus up and down the list of menu items; the right and left cursor keys will select the next menu to the right or left (except when you have a sub-menu entry focused - more details below). To select a menu item press the Return key.

You will notice that some of the menu entries have letters underlined too. These can be quickly selected by opening the menu and then pressing the key for the underlined letter. For example if you press Alt & E the 'Edit' menu will open, if you then press A then the application will 'Select All' - of course you could just hold down Ctrl and press A, but not all menu entries have another keyboard shortcut associated with them.

Some menu items have a sub-menu,...

If you wish to capture what you have on your screen as an image you can do so by pressing the Print Screen key (sometimes abbreviated to Prt Scr or similar) - on most keyboards this key will be found next to the F12 key, above the Insert key.

This will put an image of the screen into the 'Clipboard', which is the name for the "holding area" where windows keeps things that you have copied. You can then paste this image into any program that accepts pasted images, such as image editors or word processors.

Windows includes an image editor, called Paint, which is found in the 'Accessories' folder on the Start Menu program list. This application enables you to edit the screen image, should you wish to copy a section of it, or change its size, and save it as an image file.

Most word processors also include a few limited image manipulation features. In MS Word there is a toolbar that includes image manipulation tools, such as brightness and contrast adjustment, and a tool to crop the image. To show it, right-click on the image you wish to edit and click on 'Show Picture Toolbar'.

The escape key (marked 'Esc' on most keyboards) has a number of functions, but probably it's most useful function is for closing dialog boxes (those small windows that open within a program, such as the 'Save as...' box) where it is the equivalent of pressing the 'Cancel' button or the close button in the top right hand corner - the equivalent of pressing the 'OK' button is the return key.

Pressing the escape key also close menus, including the start menu, which can be opened using the windows key (the one with the Windows logo on).

If you wish to bring up Windows' file search minimise all your windows and press F3. You can also search within a certain folder too: open that folder up in Windows Explorer (the name for the program that opens when you double click on 'My Documents', 'My Computer', etc) and - you guessed it - press F3.

Pressing F3 opens search dialogs in many other programs as well: in Internet Explorer it opens (and closes) the vertical search bar; in MS Outlook it opens up the 'Advanced Find' dialog. Try pressing F3 when using applications that have some sort of search facility.

In a similar vein, you can open up the find facility in many applications by holding down the Control ('Ctrl') key and pressing F. To explain the difference between search and find, consider that you will search for a web page and when you have opened it you can find text within it. In MS Word Ctrl + F opens the 'Find and Replace' dialog. As with F3, try it out in any program that has a find facility.

Of course some programmers use slightly different standards. For example in Firefox both F3 and Ctrl + F open the find word dialog at the bottom of the screen.

Happy hunting.