Vista TNT

Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Technical

I recently stumbled on an interesting article over at techrepublic about some cool tips and trick for Windows Vista.

Keyboard Shortcut to Quick Launch Toolbar Shortcuts

This is kinda weird - a keyboard shortcut to a shortcut. Simply press the Window Key and say, number 1 to access the first shortcut you have at the Quick Launch toolbar. By default, that should be the show desktop shortcut.

More Windows Key Combinations

Win key + T: Cycles through programs using the Live Preview feature.
Win key + Spacebar: Brings Windows Sidebar to the front.

Cool Zooming Effects

You’re probably pretty familiar with the Views menu in Windows Explorer (aka “My Computer”). What you can do is scroll your mouse wheel. That’ll smoothly resize the icons up to extra large icons. There’s another shortcut to it though: try pressing the Ctrl key and spin your mouse wheel!

The best place to try this Ctrl + mouse scroll trick is on the desktop!

Desktop with huge icons
Huge Recycle Bin icon

The “Computer” icon doesn’t look that nice at full blown size. The “Recycle Bin” icon looks stunning though don’t you think?

Permalink | March 27th, 2007

One Response to “Vista TNT”

  1. Jinny Says:
    March 27th, 2007 at 11:27 pm

    them icons look like they’re floating on water :)

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