Know your Keyboard Function Keys

Note : This post is Specific to Windows 7 but its functions might overlap with previous Versions, namely XP

It all began when i was bored to death and had nothing better to do so i decided to do some productive work(?!?!?!) and this is what i come up with !! 😀

Do you really know the use of all the keys on your keyboard ?? If not all, then do you know what the Function keys are there for ?? Function Keys you ask ??? they are the “F” Keys on your keyboard like “F1”, “F2”, “F3”, aso

F1 (HELP)

Not only windows 7 but, in almost all the applications, pressing the F1 function key opens the Help and Support page which contains useful information about how to use the product.

Some more combinations : 

Suppose you are in an application, and you want windows help file, press windows key + F1
SHIFT + F1 = Start context-sensitive help or reveal formatting (What is this? help)
ALT + F1 = Go to the next field
ALT + SHIFT + F1 = Go to the previous field
CTRL + ALT + F1 = Display Microsoft system information
For formatting characters and paragraphs: CTRL + SHIFT + F1 = Change the font

Remove Windows Defender

Scenario : You recently switched to Windows 7. Your Antivirus application is however having issues with Windows Defender. How do you uninstalll it ?? Windows Defender, that is.

Solution : Windows Defender is Microsoft’s own anti-spyware application included, and integrated, with Windows Vista and 7. Unfortunately most of the times, it is not compatible with your existing Antivirus and the only alternative you have is to remove it. However, it is not possible to completely uninstall the program safely, but a safer option would be to turn it off , just in case you want to use it again at a later date.

Here are the steps to disable it : 

Some Performance Hacks

Scenario : You want to improve the performance of your PC. What do you do ??

Solution : These are some of the performance hacks i have collected over time to improve PC performance. Hope these are useful to you. One way of improving the performance of your machine is to tweak the NTFS file system. Once you do this that it will be obvious that simple changes like this can make a big difference.

Here are the tips : 

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Change the prompt of the command prompt

It all began one day when i was just messing around with command prompt and unknowingly changed the Prompt of the window and did not know how to get it back.

So i decided to do some R&D for it. I do not mess around much with CMD, i have certain commands i work with but have not delved much deep into it so far. Anyways, here is the data required related to Changing your command prompt prompt.

PROMPT is implemented as a hidden* environment variable called PROMPT. You can see it by typing the foll Command in command Prompt.

ECHO %prompt%

Under Normal Conditions, the above command will return the foll result : $P$G

Unable to change your Wallpaper Style

Scenario : Your desktop is stuck on a tiled image and you are unable to revert back.

Solution : That sure can be a Pain. You have tried everything to revert it back and yet you are unable to get it right. This happened to a client of mine and i tried various ways to revert back but it would not budge and then it struck me that maybe i can use regedit to set it right and here’s what i found.

Remove applications from the Right-click Menu – 2

Scenario Contd. : You have noticed that your Context menu has grown too long with options that are not useful to you. Also sometimes clicking on the folder causes your system to hang for atleast 5-10 seconds. What to do ??

Solution Contd. : This is a continuation of my last post. In it we discussed how we get such cluttered menus and now we will discuss how to remove them. There are two parts to it but both deal with having to modify the registry.

Woah There !!!! Did you say registry ?!?!?!?! Is it necessary ?? Yes, I know that many ppl get scared when we are talking about registry because registry is the core of our system. If we messing up the registry, we are actually messing up our operating system. Therefore, please make a backup of your registry before you continue. You don’t want to reformat your PC do you?

To edit the right-click menu, go to Start > Run and type “regedit” (without the quotes). Then click Ok. As said before, of the two parts, the first part is about to remove the applications from files context menu and the second part is to remove the applications from the folder context menu.

Remove applications from the Right-click Menu – 1

Scenario : You have noticed that your Context menu has grown too long with options that are not useful to you. Also sometimes clicking on the folder causes your system to hang for atleast 5-10 seconds. What to do ??

Solution : If you are like me and like to install a lot of applications just to screw around with them, you will be shocked to find out that your context menu has many applications. Most of them will not be even useful. Some softwares allow you to disable the context menu from its options settings. But some of them don’t have the options and not allow you to remove the applications from the context menu. In fact, many of them do not care to remove the context menu entries even on uninstalling them. 😦