Shortcut in Windows which almost no1 knows...

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It just happened to me by fluke...

I have shortcuts of a lot of things on my Desktop.

Supposed you have a shortcut of "TAT" on your Desktop.

Click on the desktop, make sure no window is selected, and type "tat" and press enter.

It works :S...

Works with everything, i have a shortcut of putty.exe, and i typed "put" and pressed enter.

It launched.

If you knew this then :bleh:...

Atleast i don't think most guys know this.. lol
 
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hey!! It works !! Worked perfectly !!

EDIT: It actually selects the file whose name starts with whatever you have typed.....
 
this wont work always.

for eg. open my computer,then close the windows(so that u r on the desktop) and without clicking anywhere else try typing and pressing enter...it wont work.

This works only when a file has a dotted rectangle over it(partially selected or something like tht)
 
^^ when you close or minimise a window the active window is not the desktop, instead it is the taskbar.

To go to the desktop you'll have to press win+d or click on the desktop after closing or minimising a window.

It's funny how you people didn't know about this :P
 
Lol i was thinking what did u find , i have been using this since ages. :P

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this wont work always.

for eg. open my computer,then close the windows(so that u r on the desktop) and without clicking anywhere else try typing and pressing enter...it wont work.

This works only when a file has a dotted rectangle over it(partially selected or something like tht)
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Exactly
 
How can anyone not have known this? It is just looking through a file, much as in windows explorer. (In fact the desktop is accessed through explorer.exe).
 
LOL, when you are on the desktop, it's like being on any explorer window...like in explorer, when you start typing the alphabets, explorer recursively places your selection on the closest match...so if you have putty and putty1 and you type put, the selction will be the former while if youu type putty1, it will be the latter :P
 
thanks man.. didnt know but.... as some of the members pointed out... u dont have to write the full name.... u just have to type the First alphabet... ;)
 
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Atleast i don't think most guys know this.. lol
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Dude, I've been using this since ages. And like Quad and Czar rightly said, it'll work anywhere in explorer, not just on the desktop.

I'm seriously wondering how you've gotten by so far without using this method of zeroing in on a file :P
 
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