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In article <33DA296D.40BA@pacbell.net>, Darrell Schmidt
<schmidt@pacbell.net> writes
>Peter Frank wrote:
>> 
>>  In the old windows 3.x you could control almost everything without a
>> mouse - f.ex  sizing windows etc.
>> Can you do the same in WIN95 ?  There is not always shortcut keys shown in
>> the menu's - but are there any shortcut keys available ?
>> 
>If you have a program you want a keyboard shortcut to, and you already
>have an existing shortcut Icon for that program....right click on the
>Icon...choose....Properties..  Shortcut...you'll see some open boxes,
>one of which says ShortCut Key.  Type any unused letter there and it
>will automatically add the CTR-ALT for you.  If you typed X in it would
>show CTR-ALT-X as the shortcut key.  That's the one I use for my
>shortcut to Explorer.

If you have a Windows keyboard (ie one with the three extra buttons, two
for bringing up the Start menu and one for a right mouse click) then you
can use these:

Win+E = Bring up Windows Explorer
Win+R = Bring up Run dialog
Win+Pause/Break = Control Panel - System
Win+F = Find (Can use simply F3)
Win+M = Minimise all windows
Shift+Win+M = Undo Minimise all windows
Win+TAB = Cycle through taskbar buttons

Some others are:

Alt+TAB = Switch between windows
Alt+Esc = Like Alt+TAB but cycles through windows
Alt+Space = Window Menu
Alt+Enter = Properties (Same as mouse click, then properties)
            or in an MS-DOS window, switch between fullscreen and window
Alt+F4 + Close Program (can also be used to shutdown Windows)
Alt+Backspace = Undo file move
Ctrl+Esc = Start Menu
Ctrl+A = Select all objects.
Ctrl+X = Cut
Ctrl+C = Copy
Ctrl+V = Paste
F2 = Rename
F4 = Drop down combo box. (eg Drive selection in Open dialog)
F5 = Update contents list
Backspace = Parent directory
Shift+F10 = Right Mouse click on currently selected object.

Hope this is helpful. Some of this info, and some other interesting
stuff is in the file "tips.txt" in your windows directory (usually
C:\windows) If you don't have this file I can send it to you. A very
useful tip which I have never seen documented anywhere is when
restarting you computer, select "Restart the Computer?" press Shift and
keep it pressed while clicking OK. Now instead of doing the whole boot
up process and starting from the begining, only Windows will restart.

Dave
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David E Glass, dave@btcf.demon.co.uk