The first article with five quick Windows tips was successful enough which made the decision to write another one easier for me. These tips are most of the time one-liners that can be applied in no time to your operating system.
I personally love those quick tips because they can immensely increase my productivity by introducing way to complete tasks faster. This time we have five quick tips for windows, they explain how to create Shortcuts using Send To , add a Run-like dialog in the task bar, Open new Explorer windows, open several instances of the Registry and how to rename multiple files at once
Please let me know if you know of tips like these, I would love to read about them and try them out on my system.
1. Send To Shortcuts
If you right-click a file, select Send To from the menu and hold SHIFT pressed while choosing the destination a shortcut will be created at the destination instead.
2. Run in Taskbar
You can add a toolbar to the Task Bar that functions more or less like the Run dialog in the Start Menu. You can add this by right-clicking free space on the Task Bar and choosing Address from the Toolbars menu. The keyboard shortcut Windows R is a tad faster in my experience.
3. Open a new Explorer window
If you only use one explorer window / folder you might find this tip useful. You can open another explorer window by holding SHIFT when opening a folder.
4. Open the Registry in several editors
You can only open the Registry once with the command regedit. If you want to open it more than once to compare settings for instance you can start it with the /m parameter. (Windows R, regedit /m, enter)
5. Rename several files at once
It is possible to rename several files at once. Press Shift for files that have the same name and CTRL for different file names. Then right-click the selected files and select Rename from the list of options.
Related posts:
- Five Quick Windows Tips
- Five Quick Windows Tips III
- Disable Balloon Tips in Windows Vista
- Add Copy To entry to right-click menu
- Restart the Explorer when Windows hangs
- 10 Advanced Windows 7 Tips Part 1
- Windows Explorer: Add Copy To Move To
- Remove Old Notification Icons In Windows 7
I really like those quick tips (quicktips? Q-tips?) – keep ‘em coming!
Correct me if I’m wrong, but holding SHIFT while using the send-to menu will MOVE the file. CTRL makes a copy, while ALT is the one which creates a shortcut.
And holding the same 3 keys while drag-&-dropping files achieves the corresponding effects.