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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Operate computer faster with basic shortcut key and windows run command

In this blog i will give you some tips to operate your computer faster to save some valuable time o your life. If you learn this basic important shortcuts you will enjoy running your computer and things will be much easier than before.

There are plenty of shortcuts available which helps to operate computer faster and easily. Among them i have selected few of them written a hub about those shortcuts, So i will recommend you to know those shortcuts first ,
Click here to Know about the useful shortcuts 


Now i will tell you how to operate your computer via windows run


Press windows menu key + R to open windows run. Now just type the code of any program to start them instantly without the help of mouse. To check windows configuration type the code dxdiag , a box will pop up and you will find all the information about your computers for example , graphics card, Ram, processor etc. If you want to open your calculator then simply just type calc to open calculator. Below are the some of my favorite commands



Add/Remove Programs – appwiz.cpl
Adobe Photoshop (if installed)- photoshop
Calculator – calc
Adobe Acrobat (if installed) – acrobat
Bluetooth Transfer Wizard – fsquirt
*Control Panel – control
Date and Time Properties – timedate.cpl
Command Prompt – cmd
Device Manager – devmgmt.msc
Direct X Troubleshooter- dxdiag
Disk Cleanup Utility- cleanmgr
Disk Defragment- dfrg.msc
Disk Management- diskmgmt.msc
Firefox (if installed)- firefox
Game Controllers- joy.cpl
Help and Support- helpctr
Internet Explorer- iexplore
Keyboard Properties – control keyboard
Microsoft Chat – winchat
Microsoft Access (if installed) – access.cpl
Microsoft Excel (if installed) – excel
Microsoft Movie Maker – moviemk
Microsoft Paint – mspaint
Microsoft Powerpoint (if installed)- powerpnt
Microsoft Word (if installed)- winword
Minesweeper Game – winmine
Mouse Properties – control mouse
Notepad – notepad
Network Connections – control netconnections
Paint – pbrush
Outlook Express – msimn
Pinball Game – pinball
Real Player (if installed)- realplay
Registry Editor – regedit
Scanners and Cameras – sticpl.cpl
Security Center – wscui.cpl
Windows Explorer – explorer
Windows Firewall- firewall.cpl
Task Manager – taskmgr
Shuts Down Windows – shutdown
Windows Media Player – wmplayer
Windows Messenger – msmsgs
Wordpad – write

Now if you can memorize all of them then you can run  them very easily.

For example , Lets try a shortcut tutorial with me,

Press windows menu key + R, then type firefox . Now you have immediately opened firefox browser . Now you can browse your internet. Suppose you want to browse a different site in a different tab then press Ctrl+T  a new tab will open.Now suppose you want open notepad , then simply type notepad in run and you will open notepad. Now suppose you want minimize all the program then simply press the windows key+D . Now if you want switch between the opened programs then press Alt+tab to switch between programs.

Now tell me how do you feel? hope i have helped a little bit to increase your operating skills . Thank you very much for reading my blog




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