Windows tricks you might not know

[yzahn]

Press ctrl+c to copy the text from an error message.
No need to painstakingly copy it out into the Google search…
This works for all standard OS supplied message boxes.
e.g.

will copy as:

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Error!!!
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Error: 0xc000005. Access violation.
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OK   Cancel   
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[TechWiz]

steps recorder

One of the best things ever invented. it’s a combination keylogger, screen capture, and annotation tool.
When someone calls you up that xxxx is not working, the hassle of trying to troubleshoot remotely can drive you crazy.
What it does is once the user starts the Recorder it will record everything he does and capture screenshots and he can just send you the report, so you can see exactly what goes wrong.
You could also access it by just typing psr in command shell.

[TechWiz]

One of my favorites, use “F2” to rename a folder.

[TechWiz]

Believe it or not, most people still don’t know about God Mode.

God Mode, as it’s called, is a special folder that exposes most of Windows’ admin, management, settings, and Control Panel tools in a single, easy-to-scroll-through interface. (BTW, “God Mode” is just a name, you can name the folder anything you like)

Go to your desktop right-click any open area, and select “New” >“Folder”.
The new folder icon will appear.
Now, rename the folder to the following:
GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} (you can replace “GodMode” in the above text with whatever you want to name the folder).
Once you’ve renamed the folder, you’ll notice the folder icon change to a control panel icon.
Double-click the icon to open the newly-created God Mode.

The most useful part of “God Mode” is you can click on any setting and create a shortcut to it.

[Yitz]

Window key + .
Will open the emoji selector

[DIAMOND]

Window key + → will move your window do the side of the arrow you pressed and you will get all other windows on the other side

[TechWiz]

@DIAMOND a new one to me, always took me a few trials trying to snap it in the right or left with the mouse

[yzahn]

I have a tip for those who run VMs (or remote desktops).
I like running my VMs fullscreen, I put them on a seperate desktop (Win 10 only) and then switch to and from the new machine with a 4 finger dragging gesture.

[TroubleMaker]

I use mouse gestures for virtual desktops!

[Master]

Win + Tab

Give it a try you will be amazed by the options,

• swap active windows like Alt + Tab
• search for your recent activities
• and the best thing is creating new desktops (for those multitaskers)

[TechWiz]

Just saw last week Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V is finally working in CMD, I guess it took Microsoft SO long to figure out how difficult it was without.

[Knaper Yaden]

@TechWiz said in Windows tricks you might not know:

Just saw last week Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V is finally working in CMD, I guess it took Microsoft SO long to figure out how difficult it was without.

I guess it took you SO long to upgrade to Windows 10 … It’s been in Windows 10 since the beginning (that’s like 5 years.)

In their new Windows Terminal (which is still in Preview, supports all type of terminals including CMD and Powershell) they just added a (Control+F like) Find (by pressing Control+Shift+F.)

[Btech]

@TechWiz Yess!!! “God me” found me very helpful Thank you!

[CK Design]

some might not know it but windows 10 has a built in screen recorder with no external software required
just press win + ALT + R

[CtrlAltDel]

You can also open a link in a new tab by pressing Ctrl and then clicking on the link, can be usefull for a laptop where you don’t have the mouse wheel to use.

[Knaper Yaden]

And Shift+Click to open in a new window.

Also useful is Alt+Enter in the browser address bar to open the modified URL in a new tab (i.e. go to the address bar of this page, delete the URL following https://shutfim.com/ and then press Alt+Enter to open your edited URL in a new tab while leaving this tab as is.)

[Chocolate]

@Knaper-Yaden said in Windows tricks you might not know:

Also useful is Alt+Enter in the browser address bar to open the modified URL in a new tab (i.e. go to the address bar of this page, delete the URL following https://shutfim.com/ and then press Alt+Enter to open your edited URL in a new tab while leaving this tab as is.)

Nice,
Open a new thread with browser tips I think there is a lot too discover.

[Knaper Yaden]

@Yitz said in Windows tricks you might not know:

Window key + .
Will open the emoji selector

BTW useful to know, in the Emoji Selector you can type a word (or start typing) to find the relevant emoji.

(Also, I find it easier to press Enter twice and then backspace instead of pressing Enter and Esc to close the Emoji panel.)

[Chocolate]

I cannot believe that I went years without knowing about this one.

When you are working inside Command Prompt, if you type the first letter of a file or folder that exists in the directory where you are working and then press the Tab key, it will auto-populate the rest of the filename.