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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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You can enter some program names in the Windows run box and the applications are recognized and executed. This does not work with all your applications however and you would like to find out how you can add new run shortcuts so that you can run your applications using the run box and a name [...]

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That’s probably the longest title that I’ve ever selected for an article here at Ghacks. A default Windows desktop contains several icons that have special “abilities” which stand in contrast to the shortcuts that users can create. If you take the Internet Explorer icon for example you notice that a right-click opens up a menu [...]

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