Shortcuts Man is a shortcuts manager for the Windows operating system by popular software developer Nirsoft. The portable software program will automatically display all shortcuts of the Windows start menu and the computer desktop in its interface. Broken shortcuts are highlighted in pink making it easy to distinguish them from the rest. The shortcuts can [...]
- Author: David Pierce
- Published: Jun 4th, 2009
- Comments: 15
5 Extensions to Make Thunderbird Gmail-Friendly
I’ve spent the last several months trying to figure out, once and for all, my perfect email system. All my email is in Gmail, but there were certain things I didn’t love about using Gmail – the offline features are hit-or-miss, there’s no reading pane, and a few notably missing keyboard shortcuts caused me [...]
Automatic Desktop Shortcuts With Desk Drive
Desk Drive is a free software program for Windows XP and Windows Vista that solves a problem for lazy users. Whenever you pop in a removable device you need to click on Windows Explorer and then on the drive icon to access it. Desk Drive on the other hand places a Windows shortcut right on [...]
Add New Keyboard Shortcuts
It’s rather strange that Windows does not ship with an easy way to configure keyboard shortcuts in the system. Enter HoeKey. A lightweight portable software that can be used to configure various advanced keyboard shortcuts. Keyboard shortcuts can be edited and added to the computer system by editing a ini file that contains all the [...]
Remove Invalid Windows Shortcuts
The computer desktop is not the only location where shortcuts can usually be found. The Windows start menu and the user’s documents and settings directory are two additional locations where lots of windows shortcuts can be found. The main problem with these is the fact that they do not get automatically updated if the user [...]
Save Time With Global String Shortcuts
I reviewed Winlaunch before explaining how it could be used to create global shortcuts easily in Windows. Today I want to delve in a bit deeper and show you how you can add shortcuts to strings to save time when you are online. You could for instance use shortcuts to represent your email address and [...]
Set Global Shortcuts in Windows
You might remember that I was looking for a program to set global shortcuts to reserved keys like F1-F12. Winlauch is a program that can set global shortcuts and comes very close to fulfilling my wish. But let me start at the beginning. It’s relatively easy to set specific shortcuts in Windows that are recognized [...]
