FADA: Framework for Animations of Distributed Algorithms

There are a figure of fast ones and cutoffs that are fairly well known among people that have got been using Windows a batch over the last 14 old age of it's existence. However, we be given to take it for given that everyone cognizes these things, when in fact they don't.

Some of these mathematical functions are documented in the Windows aid files, but I've noticed (with our secretary and my colleagues, for example) that most people never read the aid files. I say they are kinda boring...

So with out additional ado, here are some turbo tips for Windows:

(If a cardinal name is in bold, it intends you hold IT down while pressing the other keys)

1. Windows key (the 1 with the flying window on it) and Vitamin E will open up Windows explorer, instead of right clicking the My Computer Icon on the desktop and then clicking Explore. Very utile if your desktop is full of unfastened windows and you wnat to acquire another adventurer window open.

2. Ctrl B for making pronounced textual matter bold

3. Ctrl C to copy marked textual matter to the clipboard

4. Ctrl V to paste that textual matter into a new document.

5. Ctrl A chooses All; either all textual matter in a document, or all data files in Explorer.

6. Alt Prt Scandium to copy the presently unfastened window to the clipboard. You can then utilize Ctrl V to paste it, as a jpeg image, into a document, or a photograph redaction program.

7. Crtl Shift Esc will open up Undertaking manager, where you can see what processes are running, and halt them if they are misbehaving and won't close. Undertaking director also gives you a graphical record which demoes how difficult your central processing unit and memory are working.

8. In Windows Explorer and in Mentality Express (and other programs) if you chink on the column headings, it will screen the whole thing according to the alphabetic/numeric order of that column. Clicking it again will change by reversal kind it.

9. Clicking a word of textual matter twice will foreground (ie mark) that word. Clicking the word three modern times in speedy sequence will choose the whole sentence, line or paragraph. (Depending on your textual matter editor)

10. In Windows Explorer, if you throw your Ctrl key down, you can chink on numerous, random data files and choice them, even if they are not immediate (For foreign readers, this means: one after the other)

I trust this assists you. I will post another 10 tips in my adjacent article.

Duncan Kelly