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What are some of the computer tricks/shortcuts you know?
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#1
(if you have a chromebook)hit ctrl search h
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#2
Ctrl + Shift + T.
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Collin Edward 4 years ago
Amazingly helpful. For those who don't know, it reopens the last closed tab
#3
Not rly a computer hack, and feel like most people know this already, but things charge faster when you put it on airplane mode.
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#4
This might be already posted but hit alt+f4 to lower your ping (speed up WiFi connection) when playing a video game by doing that your computer will connect to the main/strongest WiFi within 100 miles it works best for mid game because then it processes faster and sends the signal farther! Hope it works for you guys :)
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Brett (Submission author) 4 years ago (edited)
For those of you that don’t know... I think this is an awesome trick.. My sister always says it works for her.. Lay down and think about how this could help you game.. You should try this.. It works really well.. Not joking it’s amazing.. Great for mid game helped me during a big fight in cod..
#5
if you use Chrome, type in chrome://dino/ into the search bar. it lets you play the no internet dino game.
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1point
#6
CTRL+Z has saved my life more times than I care to remember. It's Undo. CTRL+Y is redo. Those two so much life saving. Also Word has a function that can restore something you accidentally deleted. Oh, in Word if you grab the top right upsidedown triangle on the ruler at the top of the document and drag it to the first half check between where it was and the first long dark check that's a way to set your Tab so you don't have to hit tab everytime you just hit enter and it goes to the tabbed spot. You can also do this by going to Format, Paragraph, Indentation, Special make it first line, and indent by .5". You can do formulas in Excel to have it auto fill in your math. I don't remember all of them but they've saved my life.
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#7
I use ctr+s to save without even thinking about it (even in programs where it doesn't work :p ). | Ctrl+alt+del is of course a faithful friend for killing stuff that freezes (mostly on my work computer). | If you have a window that is "stuck" with the menu bar / "header" outside the top of your screen: Press alt+ space bar, then select "move" from the menu. You can now use your arrow keys to lure it back to where you can grab it. ... Speaking of tricks, how do you get line breaks on Bored panda?
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Robert Catte (It, It's) 4 years ago
Just do a bunch of spaces. Also, I think you can hack it.
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CTRL+Z it opens a new tab. I like using it better then dragging my mouse around.
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Bored Little Panda (Submission author) 4 years ago
Oh snap ya I was thinking and typing a different thing. Thx for the correction!!
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alt-f4 on a acer chromebook: Ctrl-magnifingglass-h also on chromebook: ctrl-shift-restartbutton or Ctrl-shift-alt-restartbutton
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#10
As a former I.T guy, there were a few simple key combos that were sometimes received with such awe and amazement I felt like a wizard. One person told me that a couple of the "tricks" I showed her had made her job so much easier it had changed her life. So, here are some that I take for granted, in no particular order: 1 - Ctrl+mouse scroll wheel will zoom any web page in and out. This also works in many applications, such as MS Office. To return a web page to its default size, use Ctrl+0 2 - Clicking on links with the centre mouse button (scroll wheel) will open that link in another tab without taking the focus away from your current tab. 3 - Ctrl+d will add the current web page to your favourites
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#11
Holding the Windows key and pressing semicolon (;) will bring up the emoji keyboard, allowing you to enter emojis in just about any application.
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#12
Control alt QQQ on a chromebook will bring you to the startup screen
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#13
If you have multiple screens, Window+shift+arrow key (whichever is appropriate) moves the window to a different screen. If you hold down the CTRL but and use the mouse wheel, it zooms the picture in and out.
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#14
when you're playing a video game such as among us or minecraft or anything on a pc, you can press alt+f4 to go really fast
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