Fast opening of your applications and clean up that desktop!

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Thu Nov 22, 2001 8:24 pm

A tip for easier program opening:

Right-click a shortcut ->select Properties ->Shortcut Key ->Press a key combination.

Tried WinKey-Letter combination, but I have to use Ctl-Alt-letter = AltGr-Letter.

Do that for your most common apps, and it really speeds up your work! Now you don't have to go thru Start Menu or don't have to clear the desktop anymore to open something.

I assigned the links form the Start Menu, so I could clean up the desktop too

The combinations are real easy, I made:
AltGr-P = Pulsar
AltGr-C = Cubase
AltGr-F = Fruityloops
AltGr-E = Explorer
...

Also check your Winhelp on Keyboard Shortcuts. There's a lot of keyboard shortcut preset in Windows.

the atom.

algorhythm · Post by **algorhythm** » Fri Nov 23, 2001 12:02 am

why not just drop your shortcuts into the taskbar for instant single mouse click access?

subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Fri Nov 23, 2001 12:45 am

For WinKey combinations try this, http://www.copernic.com/winkey/

I also like al's suggestion, this is what I do personally.

Funktastico · Post by **Funktastico** » Fri Nov 23, 2001 3:03 am

Doen't key shortcuts use CPU cycles? Not much I guess but anyway...

sinistar · Post by **sinistar** » Mon Nov 26, 2001 7:24 pm

um...hasn't anyone heard of QuicKeys on the windows platform? It's THE macro app, been on the Mac for many moons...

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Tue Nov 27, 2001 10:34 am

been on Windoze too for long time, but for non-Windoze appz, they're not setup automaticaly. Personal Computer, assign them yourself.

Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Mon Dec 03, 2001 8:47 am

Funktastico
I use WinKey. If it uses system resources, it is less than 1% (I see no difference, when I go to system/performance). By the way, windows allready has shortcuts. One example try pressing "Flag" and "pause/break" at the same time in win98.