Windows 7 Shortcut Keys to Improve Your Productivity and SPEED!

Doesn’t matter how fast you can use your mouse and click, nothing can beat the speed of keyboard shortcut key. Windows 7 has come with a lot of interesting shortcut keys which are waiting to be fully exploited by speed junkies.

 

Keyboard Shortcut	Function
Win+Up	Maximize Window
Win+Down	Minimize Window
Win+Left	Snap Window to left
Win+Right	Snap Window to right
Win+Shift+Left	Jump to left monitor
Win+Shift+Right	Jump to right monitor
Win+Home	Minimize / Restore all other windows
Win+T	Focus the first taskbar entry, similar to ALT +TAB
Win+Shift+T	Same as above in reverse order
Win+Space	Peek at the desktop
Win+G	Bring Gadgets to the top
Win+ [Num]	Launches the numbered app running in the Super bar
Win+P	Connecting displays to computers and switching from single monitor to dual-display
Win+X	Mobility Center
Win + + Win + -	Zoom in and out of Windows
Alt+P	Show/hide Preview Pane in Explorer
Win + Tab	Windows Aero Task Switcher
Shift + Click on icon (Taskbar)	Open a new instance
Middle click on icon(Taskbar)	Open a new instance
Ctrl + Shift + Click on icon (Taskbar)	Open a new instance with Admin privileges
Shift + Right-click on icon (Taskbar)	Show window menu (Restore / Minimize / Move / etc)
Shift + Right-click on grouped icon (Taskbar)	Menu with Restore All / Minimize All / Close All, etc.
Ctrl + Click on grouped icon	Cycle between the windows (or tabs) in the group

 

 

And if you are multi monitor user (I just join this group with my new Samsung SyncMaster P2350 24 inch wide + old 19 Samsung SyncMaster 931BW wide monitors, these short cut keys are really a bless J

Keyboard Shortcut	Function
Win + Spacebar	Aero desktop peek, just like that small rectangle at the right bottom corner next to the time display.
Win + Left Arrow	toggle docking to half the screen starting by the left half
Win + Right Arrow	toggle docking to half the screen starting by the right half
Win + Shift + Left Arrow	move the window one monitor left in a multi-monitor display
Win + Shift + Right Arrow	move the window one monitor right in a multi-monitor display
Win + Up Arrow	maximize
Win + Down Arrow	minimize
Win + Home	minimize/maximize all inactive windows
Win + P	show presentation mode projector options
Win + G	show desktop gadgets
Win + Any number (1, 2, 3, .., 0)	open the corresponding taskbar pinned program
Ctrl + Click a pinned taskbar icon	to cycle through the program’s open windows (e.g. IE)
Ctrl + Shift + Click a pinned taskbar icon	to run a new instance of the program as administrator
Shift + Click a pinned taskbar icon	to run a new instance of the program

 

How to delete locked file/folder in Windows 7

Have you come across that you can’t delete certain folder or file even you are the administrator?

And you are damn sure that no one is using that folder or file as well. This is very frustrating isn’t it. Well, at least I felt that way.

2 solutions that I come across:

• Windows 7 (32 or 64 bit) compatible unlocker : lockhunter
• Take Ownership.

  All files could be downloaded from HERE
  

 

If windows keep telling you that you can’t delete or move that folder because somebody or something is using it (even you are the only user on that pc), you may need a nifty application to release that folder or file from OS hand. As for myself (for Windows 7 x64), I use lockhunter. You may get it at : http://lockhunter.com/ . Best of all, it is a freeware.

 

But, if Windows keep telling you that you need to have xxxxx privilege from xxxxx in order to delete that file mean you need to take ownership of that folder/file. The easiest way to do so is by adding premade registry entry and take ownership by right clicking on that folder/file.

1. Download Take Ownership registry : HERE

    

2. Unzip it and right click à merge

   

    

3. Go to the locked folder and right click à Take Ownership

   

    

4. Done. Now you can delete that locked folder/file.