Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Invert window screen - Cool keyboard trick


Here is cool trick to rotate your computer screen. you can rotate it by 90 or 180 or 360 angle. You can invert your window screen an d can impress your friends, This is one of the scariest tricks which turns Windows upside down. Here are steps:



Press Ctrl, Alt and then any of the four arrow keys .
Down arrow key rotate by 180 degree, invert screen.
Left arrow key rotate by 90 degree.
Right arrow key rotate by 270 degree
Up arrow key make it normal again.


Make screen black - Funny keyboard trick


Here is a simple and funny keyboard trick which you can use to impress your friends. This is nothing but less known feature of the Windows. You have to basically turn on high constrant. Here are steps:

1) Hold Shift, Alt and Print Screen keys together.

2) Click on OK when a message appears (this enables high contrast on Windows system).

Now your screen should change to black.

3) To revert back screen to previous state press Shift, Alt and Print Screen again.


Monday, March 15, 2010

Creating Keyboard shortcuts to open files, folder or browser

You can create a keyboard shortcut that can automatically open a folder, a program or a word file or any application or browser through your keyboard even when you have other windows like Internet explorer, Office maximized. This is very simple trick and very usful save lots of time. Here are steps:

1). Create a shortcut of the folder / program / file on the desktop.
2). Right click the shortcut on the desktop, and then click Properties.
3). In the Properties dialog box, click the Shortcut tab.
4). Now in the Shortcut key textbox, enter a key combination for example CTRL+ALT+R or CTRL+SHIFT+R or whatever you like.


Its done.

Now when you hit the key combination just specified, the folder / program / file will open even if other program windows are maximized.