Tag Results For: HotKey

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How To Switch To A New Desktop Background Using A Hotkey In Windows 7 & 8 [Tip]

The themes in Windows 7 and Windows 8 usually contains a number of images in each theme. Other elements remain the same, but the image changes to a new one after a specified amount of time. This time interval can be changed by opening Personalization settings and selecting the Desktop Background option. The time interval [...] (more…)

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Enable Keyboard Shortcuts & Create Custom Hotkeys In Gmail [Tip]

Keyboard shortcut support is a rather unknown feature of Gmail. If you love using keyboard shortcuts, you must know how convenient it is to use hotkeys to perform mouse-intensive tasks. If you’re an avid Gmail user who spends the better half of the day managing emails, then you might want to use hotkeys to quickly navigate [...] (more…)

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Instantly Auto-Adjust The Width Of ‘Details View’ Columns In Windows Explorer [Tip]

The Windows 7 & 8 Explorer provides users with a lot of viewing options including Extra Large Icons, Large Icons, Medium Icons, Small Icons, List, Details, Tiles and Content. While most users do not usually change the default view mode, other view modes, like Extra Large Icons, Details view mode, also come in handy in [...] (more…)

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Use Hotkeys For Playback Control Of Multiple Media Players With MPH

There are numerous applications available out there that let you assign custom global keyboard shortcuts to a specific media player, so that you can easily play or pause a media file, control volume, etc., even if your media player is not active, but what if you want to assign hotkeys to not just one, but [...] (more…)

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Quick Paste: Use Custom Hotkeys To Enter Pre-defined Text Or Run Programs/Commands

Sometimes, even the smallest of tools can prove to be extremely handy. This statement holds true for Quick Paste, a portable application that can save you a lot of time in email, report, draft or essay writing, if you repeatedly find the need to enter a certain block of text. The program lets you add multiple [...] (more…)

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WinPlusX: Get Windows 8 Win+X Menu In Windows 7 & Vista

Since the release of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, there has been a lot of talk about its different features. Apart from the major UI related changes, Windows 8 comes with a lot of quick access shortcuts that were not included in previous versions of Windows. In this article, however, we are concerned with only [...] (more…)

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How To Show Hidden Files & Folders With A Hotkey In Windows 7 & 8

Linux-based OS such as Ubuntu, Fedora etc, allow you to toggle viewing of hidden folders on and off through a simple shortcut key – Ctrl+H. To perform the same function in Windows, i.e., show or hide hidden files, one has to open Folder Options and navigate to View tab to hide/unhide files and folders. Wouldn’t it [...] (more…)

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iTunes Hotkeys: Global Shortcuts For Play/Pause, Next & Previous Track

A couple of days ago, we covered iTunesInfo, an iTunes controller that allows you to configure global hotkeys to perform different actions, such as Play, Pause, Stop, Adjust Volume, Shuffle Playlist etc. It is quite a big program with lots of options to adjust hotkeys and view song information in notification window. If you are looking [...] (more…)

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iTunesInfo: Create Global Hotkeys For Various iTunes Actions

If you’re one of those audiophiles, who use iTunes as a primary media player for managing their music library, then you must have noticed that it doesn’t support global hotkeys to adjust volume and navigate between items in playlist. For this reason, one has to bring up iTunes window to change the track, shuffle playlist, [...] (more…)

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Close All: Shut Down All Running Windows Applications With A Hotkey

When using the computer for a long time, it is quite common to have a lot of windows open at the same time on your desktop. Closing them down one by one is not time efficient, and if you are in a hurry, you may want to close down everything as soon as possible. Windows [...] (more…)

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ArsClip Lets You Save Permanent Clipboard Entries & Edit Them

Previously, we have covered a lot of clipboard managers, including Clipboard Text Recorder, ClipX and Free Clipboard Manager, that have their distinct functionalities, like managing clipboard through hotkeys and saving screenshots in clipboard. ArsClip is a portable clipboard application for Windows that monitors the clipboard entries and records multiple entries. Pasting is done using a [...] (more…)

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30 New Hotkeys For Windows 8

Hotkeys allow you to save time by quickly accessing menus and performing different tasks, which may take more time when done with mouse. Windows 8 Consumer Preview was launched some days ago, and along with the new user interface, also came new hotkeys to access the new menus included in Windows 8. We thought it [...] (more…)

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KeyboardExt: Quickly Locate & Launch Applications Using Hotkeys

KeybardExt is an versatile application for Windows that allows you to completely manage keyboard shortcuts, launch applications, send keystrokes to applications and extends Windows Explorer keyboard shortcuts. It has built-in capability to handle and manage screenshots and can also be used as a quick way to search for items in your Start menu. The tool [...] (more…)

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Retain Clipboard Items After System Reboot Using ClipboardZanager

Previously, we have covered a lot of clipboard managers, including Clipboard Text Recorder, ClipX and Free Clipboard Manager, which allow users to keep multiple items in the stack, and move the selected item to Windows clipboard to paste it in required application.Today, we have another clipboard manager named, ClipboardZanager. It lets you easily manage the Windows [...] (more…)

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HotKey Resolution Changer: Change Monitor Resolution Using Hot Keys

Windows allows you to change the resolution of your screen, but you have to open display settings and change resolution manually, and then save the changes to completely apply it. Previously, we reviewed an application called Display Changer that allowed you to change to the resolution of your own choice, rather than the ones pre-included in [...] (more…)