Keyboard Accelerators in Vista

Like Windows XP, Vista is come up with keyboard accelerators. some of them are listed below. 1.File or folder properties Method 1 – in a new window - Hold the ALT key while double-clicking on a file or folder in the right-hand side pane window to view the Properties window for that object. The new window is identical to what you get when you press ALT+ENTER while the file or folder is selected. Method 2 – as a hovering balloon - Hover your mouse cursor over a file or folder to see basic information about the object, such as size, date modified, and so on. 2. Folder navigation Up the folder tree - Press BACKSPACE in an open folder to go to the parent (containing) folder. This shortcut has always worked in Internet Explorer. Back and forward in folder browsing history - Hold the ALT key while pressing the LEFT cursor key to navigate to the previously viewed folder (i.e. backwards in the history of the opened folders). You can also hold ALT while pressing the RIGHT cursor key to move in the opposite direction (i.e., forward). This is similar to the Back and Next buttons in Windows Explorer. Closing all parent windows – This tip is not something new to Vista, but it’s always worthwhile mentioning. If you use the single-folder view and with the "Open each folder in its own window" option turned on, hold the SHIFT key while clicking on the X (close) button of the Explorer window. This will close all open folders that were used to get to that folder. Select all - Press CTRL-A to quickly select all contents of a folder (both files and folders). Select some files or folders – Like in the previous tip, this is not new to Vista, but it’s nice to remember that you can do it. When you want to select a number of files or folders you can click on the folder in the left pane to display its contents in the right pane, then use the SHIFT+ARROW UP or SHIFT+ARROW DOWN to select a number of successive files or folders from the initial point of selection and up, or from that point and down, respectively. You can also use the SHIFT+HOME or SHIFT+END combo to select files or folder from the initial point of selection to the top or to the bottom of the list, respectively. Create a List of a folder’s content – While there are many methods of doing this, Vista has a nice shell add-on that allows you to copy a file or folder’s path. You can use this when selecting many files or folders, and then pasting the content of the clipboard to a Notepad window. Select the files or folders you want, then while selected, press SHIFT in the RIGHT pane (this won’t work in the left pane), and choose Copy As Path. Next open Notepad (or any other text program) and paste the content to it by pressing CTRL+V. Quickly get to the file or folder you need – In Windows Explorer you can press a letter key to quickly jump to the first file or folder starting with that letter. Continue typing to jump further. You just need to type fast enough in order to let Explorer “know” what you mean. For example, pressing C while you are in the %systemroot%\Windows\System32 folder will jump to the first folder that starts with the letter C, that is catroot If you press C again it’ll go to the next file or folder that starts with C, that is catroot2, then CodeIntegrity and so on. If you press M fast enough it will jump to first object that starts with CM, that is cmcfg32.dll. Then, if you press D without any delay it will go to CMD.exe.