13 Windows Secrets & Tricks That You Should Know
Windows Secrets & Tricks: Here are the lesser known secrets tricks about Windows. To close the window opened, Double Clicking on the left-top of any window closes it instead of clicking close button to the right. If you ever wanted to restart the Windows Explorer, Click on Start, press and hold Ctrl+Shift Keys, right click on a blank space; You'll find Exit Explorer option! You need to open task manager and "Start a New Task"to get it back. To do it, open task manager, go to file and run the new task "explorer.exe". On Windows 8 in Desktop mode, Hold Ctrl+Shift and right-click anywhere on the task bar then select "Exit Explorer". Taking screenshot: Winkey + PrnScrn to take a screenshot of the screen. It saves the screenshots under Libraries\Pictures\Screenshots Folder. (On Windows 8) Ever wondered how to get the Start Menu, without using the Win Key? Try Ctrl+Esc ! To Launch first through ninth icon on taskbar, including items pinned to taskbar, press Winkey + 1 ... Winkey + 9 Make your laptop with Wi-Fi into an Access Point (AP) with a simple set of commands. We can share the Internet to our mobile device or any friends in any critical situation. It comes very handy. Check out this detailed tutorial on the same to make your laptop into wifi hotspot. Create a new folder, save it as " TechEmpty.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} ". This creates an access to all the settings in windows. It's very handy. To review your computer's Reliability and Problem history, there is something called Reliability Monitor, Simply type reliability in the Start Search box and click on view reliability history. Try it! Most of the users do not know this! The Problem Steps Recorder : Search for and run "psr" from the Start menu. Click Start Record, and the utility will record your activities through a series of screen shots, automatically including captions that show exactly where you clicked. You can also use the Add Comment button to highlight specific areas of the screen and insert custom annotations. When you stop recording, everything will be stitched together and saved as a Web browser-compatible MHTML (MIME HTML) file, conveniently pre-ZIPped and ready for e-mailing to your geek of choice. There is a utility built-into Windows that will overwrite all the free space on a hard drive, insuring any files you've deleted stay dead. Launch a command prompt and type cipher /w:Drive or Partition you want to wipe. Be patient—the process can take a long time if you have a lot of free space. You can create a shortcut to applications, but do you know that you can assign them as Keyboard shortcuts? Right click on the created shortcut To any application and assign a keyboard shortcut. Now you can simply use the *Keyboard Shortcut* to launch any application, anytime, anywhere. Renaming multiple files: To rename multiple files in Windows, select the files you want to rename. Press the F2 key. Rename the first file and press Enter. All your files will be renamed and a number will be added to the end of the name. The shortcut to open the task manager is Ctrl + Shift + Esc. You don't have to press Ctrl + Alt + Del to open Task Manager! Subscribe to TechEmpty at www.youtube.com/user/techempty?sub_confirmation=1 Follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/techempty Twitter: www.twitter.com/techempty Google Plus: plus.google.com/+techempty Website: techempty.org 13 Windows Secrets & Tricks That You Should Know www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ASaj_kFBDo
