Here's a few useful keyboard shortcuts for Windows users
Shortcut Keys Description Alt + F File menu options in current program. Alt + E Edit options in current program F1 Universal Help in almost every Windows program. Ctrl + A Select all text. Ctrl + X Cut selected item. Shift + Del Cut selected item. Ctrl + C Copy selected item. Ctrl + Ins Copy selected item Ctrl + V Paste Shift + Ins Paste Home Goes to beginning of current line. Ctrl + Home Goes to beginning of document. End Goes to end of current… Continue readingPosts Tagged ‘windows’
Windows shortcuts
Monday, April 19th, 2010
How to disable Windows and Windows programs sounds
Monday, April 12th, 2010
The sounds in Microsoft Windows and the sound in many of the Microsoft Windows programs such as Internet Explorer, MSN, Instant Windows Messenger, NetMeeting, etc. is all controlled through the sound properties in Control Panel. To adjust these settings follow the below steps.
Click Start, Settings, and Control Panel.
In Control Panel double-click the Sound and Audio Devices icon.
Within the Sound and Audio Devices Properties window locate the sound you wish to… Continue reading
I/O Error: Cannot run program “javac”: CreateProcess error=2
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Ever got this error while building a BB JDE (BlackBerry Java Development Environment) Project?
Building
C:\Program Files\Research In Motion\BlackBerry JDE 4.3.0\bin\rapc.exe -quiet import="..\..\..\..\..\Program Files\Research In Motion\BlackBerry JDE 4.3.0\lib\net_rim_api.jar" codename= .rapc warnkey=0x52424200;0x52525400;0x52435200 C:\\.java
I/O Error: Cannot run program "javac": CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified
Error while building project
First check that you have JDK properly installed on your computer. Go to Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs.
If all that's sweet -… Continue reading
CHKDSK on Startup
Sunday, January 31st, 2010
One major problem I've been having is on my 2nd PC - where each time I shut down/restart it always runs a CHKDSK! So annoying!
I found this great article that resolves this issue using command prompt to modify registry settings on start up.
Disable or Stop Auto CHKDSK During Windows Startup
CleanMem
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Found a program that actually works! CleanMem
It’s an exe that runs in 5 secs to free up memory it uses some windows API to clean up processes. It’s really good for people like me that have Eclipse, Outlook, VSS, SQLServer and Firefox all open... and I’m only using maybe Eclipse for the majority of the time the others are just open doing sfa
When u install it, it automatically sets a… Continue reading
XAMPP for Windows
Sunday, May 3rd, 2009
I recently started using this program its fantastic! It's like Uniform Server yet slightly better. XAMPP is a type of WAMP (Windows/Apache/MySQL/PHP) that runs straight off your computer.
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html
Uniform Server on the other can run off a single usb - simply by running the app it mounts a virtual drive for your web server and off you go. When your done, simply stop and the drive is unmounted. On the other Continue reading