Windows Super User, Michael Maardt

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Table of Content

About this text

• NOT for beginners
• You are lazy!
• Windows Versions
• A few words about myself
• History
• Keyboard and mouse
• Updates on the website
• Money
• Translators wanted

Why Super User?

• My Intention
• My experiences
• Why Super User?

Windows Explorer

• Objects

• Win Explorer: Navigation

• Right arrow logic
• Left arrow logic
• Tip to avoid the A: drive
• Speed search
• Space (left-hand pane only)
• Backspace
• Home, End, PgUp, PgDn
• Ctrl+Home/End/PgUp/PgDn
• * asterisk – left-hand pane only
• Advice when navigating

• Win Explorer: Selecting

• Select several files, but not all
• Selecting single scattered files
• Reverse selecting

• Win Explorer: Sorting

• Adjusting columns (mouse)
• Adjusting columns (keys)

• Object properties
  • Folders
  • Drives
  • My Computer
  • Desktop

Windows Explorer and keys

• F2 - clever use of
• Alt+TAB
• The Alt key - important!
• Starting programs with one key press
• Programs on the Start Menu
• Properties of a shortcut file
• Starting Explorer from ...
• A cheat
• Open files quickly using Explorer
• 2 copies of Windows Explorer

Win Explorer: Finding and displaying folders and files

• Misc
• Favorites: organise
• Managing folders
• Backup
• BATCH files for backups
• Recently opened documents
• Files: regular destinations
• Restart Windows
• Shutting down the computer
• All roads lead to… the operating system!

Windows Commander

• General
• Shortcuts
• F2
• Packer und entpacker
• FTP - Ctrl+F

Browser

• Internet Explorer
  • Navigation
  • Internet Explorer 3, 4 and 5 - Netscape is bad with shortcuts
  • Refresh or Reload?
  • Tell a friend about the page, you are looking at right now?
  • Open a new window often
  • Neues Fenster im Browser
  • History and Favorites
  • Open a new window when hitting a link
  • Das Adressfeld herunterklappen
  • Address field: select
  • Address field: edit
  • Jump through the links on a page

  Can you think like a program?

  Computers and male/female energy

  Shortcuts

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