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Windows 7 Trick – ‘Send To’ Options

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Posted on : 23-08-2011 | By : admin | In : Tips and Tricks, Windows 7
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When browsing the contents of your computer you can right-click on a folder or file and one of the options you have is ‘Send to’.  Send to is handy, but somewhat limited in where you can actually send the file or folder to.

Standard send to

Now take a look at the additional places you can send the file or folder by simply holding down the <Shift> key while right-clicking and pressing the Send to option:

Shift send to

As you can see there are quite a few more places you can send your data to, including the Documents, My Music, My Pictures and My Videos folders.  Quite handy!

 

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Windows 7 – Switch Between Monitors With Ease

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Have you ever had a laptop and one of those head-scratching moments while you tried to figure out which combination of buttons to press so you could use a projector or monitor that you plugged in?  On one laptop it might be fn+F8, while on another fn+F5 while on another it might be a button that you press that is somewhere on the laptop.

With Windows 7 Microsoft made it easy.  Press the Windows key and p.  That’s it.  Windows Key + P will bring up a window that will allow you to switch between your laptop display and a projector or monitor that you hooked up.  If you are running a desktop system with multiple monitors you can also use Windows Key + P to configure your displays.

change displays

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Windows 7 Trick – Alt + Tab vs. Windows Key + Tab

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In various versions of Windows you can press the Alt + Tab keys to cycle through your open programs.  By keeping the Alt key pressed town you can jump from program to program by pressing the Tab key until the program you want is displayed.

Alt Tab

Starting with Vista, Microsoft added a very slick new way to display your open programs called Aero Flip 3D.  It also displays your open programs, but displays them in a 3D (well, as close as you can get to 3D without wearing those silly glasses) view.  You can see your open programs and use your mouse wheel or Tab key to cycle through the windows.

To use the Aero Flip 3D view press the Windows Key (near the bottom left of your keyboard) and Tab key.

Window Key Tab

It’s that easy!  Next time you are flipping between open programs try using the Windows Key + Tab and enjoy the view.

The Aero Flip 3D does require a bit more hardware oomph from your system in order to display the 3D view.  Here are the minimum requirements to use Aero:

Minimum Hardware Requirements for running Windows 7 Aero:

1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor

1 GB of RAM

128 MB graphics card

 

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