How To get to your Desktop when you have a lot of apps open!1. Open a browser window (double-click on "My Computer")2. If there is no toolbar, select View from the menu and select Toolbar.3. Then from the dropdown list-box in the toolbar select desktop.4. Now minimize it and forget about it.5. To access your desktop just click the desktop window on the taskbar.6. As long as you don't close the window when you shutdown, it will reopen when you start windows again.Better yet: You can drag the Desktop folder to the start menu.Then you just press Ctrl-ESC and click on Desktop, or type D. Bingo!
Create Shortcuts to any Control Panel ItemYou can make a shortcut to any item in your Control Panel. In fact you can make a shortcut for all of them and put them all in a Desktop folder.
Here's an example for creating a shortcut to the Device Manager:1. Right-click on the Desktop and choose New/Shortcut2. Type C:\WINDOWS\CONTROL.EXE SYSDM.CPL in the Command Line box and click on Next.3. Name it Device Manager (or another name of your choice), then click on the Finish button. Assign a new icon to the shortcut as you would any other.
View Multi- Drive Properties at OnceHere's an easy way to view the properties for multiple hard drives simultaneously. Open My Computer and select all your hard drives by holding down Ctrl and clicking on each drive in turn. Next, right-click on any of the drives and choose Properties. Windows creates a single dialog box with Properties tabs for each drive. This also works for floppy disk, removable and mapped network drives.
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