General IT tips

In continuation to our earlier blog about the general IT tips, here are few more

File Management Tricks:

Rename a file quickly Right-clicking and selecting rename is not very efficient. Instead simply press F2 while a file is selected to change its name. To alter the name of another file, type TAB without deselecting the current file.

Rename files sequentially in Windows You actually don’t need to download any programs to perform a batch file rename in Windows. Instead, you can select all the files you want to change, right-click the first one in the list, select rename (or use F2) and type in the name. This will automatically change all the other files with the same root name with a suffix: (1), (2), and so on

Select multiple files using the keyboard. To select a bunch of files using your keyboard, you can press shift+ down arrow to select a single file or shit + Page Down to select a large group of files at one time.

Web Browsing Tricks

Automatically add www. And .com to a URL, you can shave off a couple of seconds typing in a URL by simply click CTRL + Enter after you type the name of the site. Need .net instead of.com, press CTRL + Shift + Enter.

Jump to address bar, there are a number of ways to jump right to the address bar from anywhere in browser. Pressing CTRL + L, F6 and ALT + D all accomplish this goal.

Accidentally closed a tab? Simply press CTRL + Shift + T to reopen the most recently closed tab and get back to what you were doing.

Use private browsing, the uses for not having cookies and history saved are obvious for certain activities, you know, like shopping for gifts on a shared computer. Pressing CTRL + Shift + N will launch a new private in Chrome, CTRL + Shift + P will do it in Firefox and Internet Explorer.

Cycle through open tabs Pressing CTRL + TAB while in a browser will flip between each one. This can be much faster than moving the mouse and clicking on a tab. CTRL + NUM (1, 2, 3, 4, n..) will also take you to certain tab in that numeric order.