Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Useful 001

COMPUTER SHORTCUTS

Action Result
prtsc Save the whole screen to the clipboard
alt + prtsc Save just the active window to the clipboard
right click then paste Copies anything saved in the clipboard to the opened application
ctrl then move the mouse wheel Zooms the image on the screen up & down
alt + tab navigate multiple open programs
windows logo + M Minimize all open windows



SOFTWARE

Name Description Found on web-site
Irfanview graphics viewing program www.irfanview.com
Gimp image processing www.gimp.org/windows
7zip unzips compressed files www.7-zip.org
Pfsetup video editor ?????


GENERAL HINTS

Burning at slightly a slower rate can minimize problems like write errors because the disk doesn’t vibrate as much
Open source programs are smaller in size than commercial versions, therefore they save space and are “cleaner” to run
When inserting a “USB stick”/CD/DVD then stop auto-start by pressing (and keep down) before inserting the mentioned. Then can look at the medium with eg Windows Explorer.
To create a folder in Windows Explorer or My Computer then right click and select new folder