Your best keyboard shortcuts

[CrazyPerson]

thanks

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Some of the cooler ones:

winkey+up - vertically maximize
winkey+right - horiz. maximize
winkey+f11 - stretches a window to fit exactly the left 50% of the screen
winkey+f12 - same but right side
winkey+[hjkl] - directional window focusing
winkey+= - grow a window by 20px in all directions
winkey+- - shrink by 20px
winkey+0 - raise window

ctrl+alt+[uiojklm,.] - move to a viewport. notice the keys are in a 3x3 grid. so are my viewports.

That's about it, as far as "cool" ones go.

 

[ebin]

I used to use the control-enter in IE to add the www. and the .com, but it doesn't work anymore. Anyone have an idea why?

 

[Babbles]

Thanks, didn't know some of them.

 

[Gunslinger08]

What the hell does alt+f6 do? Made my computer go haywire.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: joshsquall
What the hell does alt+f6 do? Made my computer go haywire.

It's the make-your-computer-go-haywire command.

 

[Sid59]

PrtScn

then the foobar global hotkeys

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: Ornery
If you hit CTRL+ALT+P during a reply, it gets posted! 😱

 

[TuffGirl]

Nice post. Here are some of my additions:

Global
Shift+Delete -- permanent deletion without going to Recycle Bin

For any text
Ctrl+Shift+Left -- decreases highlighted text one word (keep hitting the arrow to highlight successive words)
Ctrl+Shift+Right -- increases highlighted text one word
Shift+Home -- highlights text from cursor point to beginning of line
Shift+End -- highlights text from cursor point to end of line

Internet Explorer
F11 -- super maximizes window and also makes the URL field reappear even for windows without the URL bar (like for flash pop-ups for example).
Home -- goes to top of page
End -- goes to bottom of page
Esc -- stop page loading
Backspace or Alt-left -- navigate one page back
Alt+right -- navigate one page forward
Page Up -- scroll one page up (duh😛)
Page Down or Spacebar -- scroll one page down

Originally posted by: Hubris
Any keyboard shortcut for creating a new folder quickly? It's annoyingly slow when you want to make a new one to use the right-click->new function

Not purely a kb shortcut, but what I do is right-click -> New -> then hit 'f'. It's a tad bit faster than using the mouse to selecting Folder.🙂 But yeah I think it would be much more convenient if Windows had a ctrl-N function for that in My Computer or Windows Explorer but oh well.

 

[ethebubbeth]

finally, another user of mozillafirebird! I thought i was the only one out there, heheh. Too bad they had to chang their name from phoenix though, that was much more unique.

 

[Lorax]

if you use the "links" bar on IE: right click on a shortcut (google, for me, for ex), select properties. click in "shortcut key" then press the keys you want for a shortcut (ctrl + alt + something, usually).

for me, its ctrl + alt + G. quick press, instant google. works when theres no ie window open too.

 

[andy2812]

"Ctrl-Alt-any letter" - Opens any application you designate. You have to first set this up.
Right click any icon on your desktop, select properties, and the shortcut tab. In the box marked shortcut key, type any letter. (I use "e" for excel, "w" for word, etc.) It will automatically add the "ctrl-alt". Now click apply at the bottom. Once you are done, you can simply open this application by pressing "ctrl-alt-letter chosen". It works regardless of what you are doing at the time. So if you are in Word and need to open excel simply type "ctrl-alt-e" and excel will open.

Alt-Home - In internet explorer, it goes to your start up page.

Alt-Enter - Fullscreen. Good for viewing video files

Ctrl-P - Opens print dialog box in any application.