cool trick

Post by **nikos** » 2011 Jun 21, 07:38

we have a saying in greece from kid or loony you learn the truth
vanessa was just monkey-typing on my keyboard when the focused window ended up in the top right of the screen. How did she do that?

it turns out that WIN+left/right arrows send a window to the left/right of screen, useful when you want to tile 2 windows quickly. I knew how to do this with the mouse but it's quicker with keyboard

(it works only on win7 probably)

narayan · Post by **narayan** » 2011 Jun 21, 07:58

I have win7, but no application window moves with winKey+LeftArrow or winKey+RightArrow. (of course, the window is not maximized when I try this).

I tried it on x2 and FF5 windows. :?

Post by **nikos** » 2011 Jun 21, 08:23

do you get window docking when you drag something to the left or right side? it works for me

narayan · Post by **narayan** » 2011 Jun 21, 08:55

Docking? As in QV or Folder tree pane? yes.

Actually I thought your tip was for MAIN window of any application (not child windows of x2). That's why I tried the trick with the main windows of x2 and FF.

But I tried it with the QV and folder tree as well (I leave them floating in the middle of the screen), but the pane does not move when I use WIN+leftArrow or Win+rightarrow.

To sum up, neither the main windows nor the panes have any effect whatsoever.

These may be GMA (Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator) shortcuts.
Older devices used to turn any window sideways when we pressed ALT+CTRL+LeftArrow or ALT+CTRL+RightArrow. This may be a similar setting...

Post by **nikos** » 2011 Jun 21, 09:24

i am talking about main windows too, not xplorer2 internal panes. Win7 offers this kind of 'docking' to the left/right of desktop. I don't know why it doesn't work for you

Post by **nikos** » 2011 Jun 22, 08:35

another day, another trick she's discovered (she will become super geek)
press F7 in internet explorer to turn on the caret browsing mode, useful to select text with the keyboard :idea:
it turns webpages into notepad

narayan · Post by **narayan** » 2011 Jun 22, 09:20

If she takes requests, I want the offline browser feature.

Cosmo · Post by **Cosmo** » 2011 Jun 23, 09:56

Caret Browsing / F7 is implemented since IE8, also to be seen in the view menu and documented in the help file. Firefox has the same feature.