Press Win+L to switch to the Welcome screen.

----Press Win+L to lock your workstation.

----You can switch users without going through the Welcome screen: From Task Manage
r, go to the Users tab, right-click a user, and select Connect.
----Hold down the shift key in the shutdown dialog to change "Stand By" to "Hibernat
e". Or just press H to hibernate instantly. You can even use the Power Control
Panel to configure your power button to hibernate.
----To disable the password when resuming from standby or hibernation, open the Powe
r Control Panel and uncheck "Prompt for password after returning from standby" o
n the Advanced tab.
----You can rename multiple files all at once: Select a group of files, right-click
the first file, and select "Rename". Type in a name for the first file, and the
rest will follow.
----Hold down the shift key when switching to thumbnail view to hide the file names.
Do it again to bring them back.
----When dragging a file in Explorer, you can control the operation that will be per
formed when you release the mouse button:
Hold the Control key to force a Copy.
Hold the Shift key to force a Move.
Hold the Alt key to force a Create Shortcut.
----If you create a file called Folder.jpg, that image will be used as the thumbnail
for the folder. What's more, that image will also be used as the album art in
Windows Media Player for all media files in that folder.
----From the View Menu, select "Choose Details" to select which file properties shou
ld be shown in the Explorer window. To sort by a file property, check its name i
n the "Choose Details" in order to make that property available in the "Arrange
Icons by" menu.
----To display the volume control icon in the taskbar, go to the Sounds and Audio De
vices Control Panel and select "Place volume icon in the taskbar".
----Hold down the shift key when deleting a file to delete it immediately instead of
placing it in the Recycle Bin. Files deleted in this way cannot be restored.
----If you hold down the shift key while clicking "No" in a Confirm File Operation d
ialog, the response will be interpreted as "No to All".
----To save a document with an extension other than the one a program wants to use,
enclose the entire name in quotation marks. For example, if you run Notepad and
save a file under the name
Dr.Z
it will actually be saved under the name Dr.Z.txt. But if you type
"Dr.Z"
then the document will be saved under the name Dr.Z. Note that a document so-na

med cannot be opened via double-clicking since the extension is no longer ".txt"
.
----Put a shortcut to your favorite editor in your Send To folder and it will appear
in your "Send To" menu. You can then right-click any file and send it to your e
ditor.
----Ctrl+Shift+Escape will launch Task Manager.
----To arrange two windows side-by-side, switch to the first window, then hold the C
ontrol key while right-clicking the taskbar button of the second window. Select
"Tile Vertically".
----To close several windows at once, hold down the Control key while clicking on th
e taskbar buttons of each window. Once you have selected all the windows you wa
nt to close, right-click the last button you selected and pick "Close Group".
----You can turn a folder into a desktop toolbar by dragging the icon of the desired
folder to the edge of the screen. You can then turn it into a floating toolbar
by dragging it from the edge of the screen into the middle of the screen. (It h
elps if you minimize all application windows first.)
----You can turn a folder into a taskbar toolbar.
First, unlock your taskbar.
Next, drag the icon of the desired folder to the space between the taskbar butto
ns and the clock. (Wait for the no-entry cursor to change to an arrow. It's a ve
ry tiny space; you will have to hunt for it.)
You can rearrange and resize the taskbar toolbar you just created.
You can even turn the taskbar toolbar into a menu by resizing it until only its
name is visible.
----In the Address Bar, type "microsoft" and hit Ctrl+Enter. Internet Explorer auto
matically inserts the "http://www." and ".com" for you.
----To remove an AutoComplete entry from a Web form, highlight the item in the AutoC
omplete dropdown and press the Delete key.
To remove all Web form AutoComplete entries, go to the Internet Explorer Tools m
enu, select Internet Options, Content, AutoComplete, then press the "Clear Forms
" button.
----To organize your Favorites in Explorer instead of using the Organize Favorites d
ialog, hold the shift key while selecting "Organize Favorites" from the Favorite
s menu of an Explorer window.
----You can organize your Favorites by dragging the items around your Favorites menu
.
Alternatively, you can open the Favorites pane and hold the Alt key while pressi
ng the up and down arrows to change the order of your Favorites.
----To run Internet Explorer fullscreen, press F11. Do it again to return to normal
mode.
----If your "Printers and Faxes" folder is empty, you can hide the "Printers and Fax
es" icon when viewed from other computers by stopping the Print Spooler service.

----To add or remove columns from Details mode, select Choose Details from the View
menu, or just right-click the column header bar.
----In Internet Explorer, hold the Shift key while turning the mouse wheel to go for
wards or backwards.
----In Internet Explorer, hold the Shift key while clicking on a link to open the We
b page in a new window.
----In Internet Explorer, type Ctrl+D to add the current page to your Favorites.
This and many more keyboard shortcuts can be found by going to Internet Explorer
, clicking the Help menu, then selecting Contents and Index. From the table of
contents, open Accessibility and click "Using Internet Explorer keyboard shortcu
ts".
----In some applications (such as Internet Explorer), holding the Control key while
turning the mouse wheel will change the font size.
----To shut down via Remote Desktop, click the Start button, then type Alt+F4.
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