How To Create Custom Shortcuts Keys in Microsoft Word?

If you are not an expert user then you can take many clicks and lot of menus navigations to perform a basic task. With shortcut keys, you can speed up your working pace without lifting your hands on the keys; otherwise require a conventional mouse to select menus and buttons options. Lets see how to create our own shortcut keys in Microsoft Word.

How To Create Custom Shortcuts Keys in Microsoft Word?

Step1: Click on Start Menu and go to Program then click on Microsoft Word.

Step2: In Microsoft Word go to Tools menu and click on Customize option.

Step3: A dialog box will appear with title Customize, now click on “Keyboard” button.

Step4:  Again a small dialog box with title Customize Keyboard, the list of all the categories of commands with appear on the left side of the dialog box. You should click on the category that contains the command which you want to assign a shortcut keyboard.

Step5: Choose the command you want to assign a keyboard combination on the right side of the customize keyboard dialog box and then click the key you want to create shortcut.

Step6: Now click on Assign button to final the shortcuts key combination then close it.

How To Create One Click Restart/Shutdown Icon?

We normally shutdown or restart our Windows power PC by using the start menu and then clicking Turn off your computer and then selecting shutdown or restart from the new window. How flexible and easy could it be if you could easily shut down or restart with in a click of a button. As the button is triggered a shutdown or restart operation is triggered. Lets see how this can be worked out. Here are the steps to create the restart or shutdown button.

How To Create One Click Restart/Shutdown Icon?

Step1: Right click on your desktop and go to New then Shortcut.

Step2: On the new “Create Shortcut” window, type the following command SHUTDOWN -r -t 30

Here t 30 means time in second, for example if you want your computer will restart automatically after half minute then the command will be shutdown -r -t 30. But if you want your computer will restart without any countdown then type command as shutdown -r -t 00.

Step3: Click Next button to type the name of this shortcut and press Finish to close it.

How To Disable Direct Memory Access(DMA)

The Direct Memory Access will allow data transmission between your hard drive and CD drive without requiring the microprocessor’s intervention. Those using Windows XP will not have this option set by default.

Step1:  Click Start, then click Control Panel.

Step2:  Click and open the “System” icon

Step3:  Select the “Hardware” tab and choose “Device Manager” option.

Step4:  List the ATA/ATAPI options by clicking the “+” icon next to it.

Step5:  Select the “Primary IDE Channel” option.

Step6:  In the “Primary IDE Properties” window select the “Advanced Settings” tab.

Step7:  Check whether the “Transfer Mode” for “Device 0” enables DMA.

Step8:  Also, check whether the “Transfer Mode” for “Device 1” enables DMA.

Step9:  Click “OK” to confirm the changes.

Step10:Hence, click “Secondary IDE Channel”.

Step11: In the “Secondary IDE Properties”, select the “Advanced Settings” tab.

Step12:Check whether the “Transfer Mode” for “Device 0” enables DMA.

Step13: Also, check whether the “Transfer Mode” for “Device 1” enables DMA.

Step14: When done, click “OK” to confirm the changes.

How To Preview Windows When Using Alt+Tab?

We mostly use Alt+Tab combination to switch from one application to another, what if you have about ten internet explorer windows. It would be a real hectic job locating the application we want by just looking at the icon alone. Lets try to embed the screen shot of the application on to the Alt+Tab window.

You are flying blind when you are using Alt+Tab keys. You can’t see a window before switching to it. This will create problem for you when you have opened many windows in a program and you don’t know about that file which you will be switching to.

Here I have solution for this problem. Here is an Alt+ Tab Replacement tweak which is named as Microsoft PowerToy. Just visit the following link to download it from http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/Downloads/powertoys/Xppowertoys.mspx

How To Stop Any Program To Appear In Frequently Used Programs List?

You can stop any specific computer programs which are appearing on most frequent list of start menu. For example if you want, your windows media player is never showing on the most frequent programs list when you play any movie, so  you can hide this entry from others using these settings. However this tip is very useful for you, if you are sharing your computer with others or you do not want that other persons know about your last visited documents history. Here are the steps for configuration to stop any particular program to appear in frequently used programs list.

How To Stop Any Program To Appear In Frequently Used Programs List?

Step1: Click Start button and select Run.

Step2: Type “regedit” and click OK.

Step3: Locate HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\Program name.exe

Here are the executable file names for others commonly used programs:

For MS Word        = windword.exe

For MS Excel       = excel.exe

For Explorer         = iexplorer.exe

For Notepad         = notepad.exe

For Media Player  = wmplayer.exe

But next time, if you want to disable this functionality then simply delete the NoStartPage string item.

Now close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.

How To Create Multiple Google Talk Logins?

Google Talk has emerged to serve connectivity across for millions on Google users around the globe, its a simple and power chat client which enables chat within the Google Network and alien networks like AOL. Consider a situation where two Google users share a common PC and hence as of normal either one can log on to the Google Talk, keeping the other one waiting. TechBrave is here with you to enable both of them access GTalk. Lets see how this can be done.

How To Create Multiple Google Talk Logins?

Step1: Right-click on the desktop and Select New.

Step2: Select Shortcut.

Step3: Paste this into the text box “c:\program files\google\google talk\googletalk.exe” /nomutex

Step4: Click Next and name it as Google Talk 2 Edition or any other name.

Step5: Click OK.

And its all over the you can have multiple logins to GTalk via this approach.

Microsoft Phone Data Manager

Microsoft^® Phone Data Manager Beta is an application that is designed to take away the worry of losing data on your phone – specifically contacts, music, pictures and videos. It does that by synchronizing your phone contacts with Microsoft’s Windows Live Contacts store in the cloud, or by helping you download files from the phone to your local computer.

Contacts: Microsoft^® Phone Data Manager Beta synchronizes the contacts present in your phone with your contact store on Windows Live Contacts, which is the same store that your Hotmail contacts uses. This way, your phone contacts are always present on the internet, accessible via the contacts link on Hotmail. If you lose, or simply change your phone, all you need to do is to synchronize the contacts using Microsoft^® Phone Data Manager Beta, and all the contacts that you stored in your Windows Live Contacts store will be downloaded to your phone. You can synchronize your contacts as many times as you like so that the changes you make (edits, additions or deletions) on your phone, or on the computer on Windows Live Contacts are always reflected on both your phone and the Windows Live Contacts store.
Music, Pictures and Video: In its current form, Microsoft^® Phone Data Manager Beta will download the music, pictures and videos present in your phone to a local folder on the computer you are using this application on
Communication with your phone: Microsoft^® Phone Data Manager Beta can communicate with your phone via a wireless standard known as Bluetooth, or via a USB cable.
In order for you to synchronize contacts, you will need to have a Windows Live ID (any Hotmail ID is a valid Windows Live ID). If you do not have one, you will be prompted to create one while you use the application

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