Subscribe by EmailSet up hot keys without any added software on Windows XP or better.
August 10, 2009 by Karl L. Gechlik | 9 commentsIt’s very annoying and counter productive for your hands to leave the keyboard as you use your mouse to click, click, clickity click click away at something.
Join the ranks of power users to add keyboard shortcuts for every computer task you do. Yup any task!
Built into Windows is the ability to let you assign a keyboard command to any shortcut icon on your computer. Just right-click on the icon you want to assign a shortcut to, click Properties, and click in the ‘Shortcut key’ field. Then enter in the combo of keys you want to use to launch the shortcut; it has to have one standard character (A-Z 1-0) plus two or three of the control keys (CTRL, ALT , or the Windows key.)
Also, did you know that the Windows Key + R launched the Run box and Windows Key + E opens Windows Explorer? Of course you did, that is why you are a [GAS] reader!
Consider yourself more productive! Are you feeling that productivity boost yet? Do you have other tips and tricks for our readers? We would love to hear about them in the comments!
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Karl L. Gechlik spends all of his free time helping technically challenged individuals on his blog www.askTheAdmin.com.
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These tips are for my parents omg, post compiling notes for bsd kernel not !@#$ windows tips… and even windows… lol
lots of useful ones here. I use hotkeys all day long, they make everyday tasks much faster.
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic1841.html
The only problem i have with keyboard shortcuts like that are there seems to be a HUGE delay before the action actually happens. Anyone know how to fix that?
The one I use the most is Windows Key + D = goes straight to the desktop.
I just windows xp would have a shortcut to create a new folder like in mac: cmd+shift+N
Alt-fwf
I want to assign copy
ctrl+ V and paste Ctrl+ V each to a single key, as I go through the day I copy and paste text and code hundreds of times per hour, and pinkies weren’t designed for such hard labor…
Any idea how I’d be able to do that?
The only way I can think of to do that would be to write a program that installs a hook procedure that applies to all processes and monitors keyboard messages. When it sees the key you’re looking for, it posts a WM_COPY or WM_PASTE message to the window to which the keyboard message was directed. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms644990(VS.85).aspx