How To Create A Keyboard Shortcut To Quickly Launch A Program

Posted December 9, 2009 – 5:35 pm in: Windows 7 Tweaks

One of the better ways to improve your productivity at work is to use keyboard shortcuts. Most of the programs that are available today comes with keyboard shortcuts to access all features available in the particular program.

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If you use several programs at work and want to quickly launch a program , the best way is to create a keyboard shortcut to launch the program. Sure, Windows 7 allows you pin programs to taskbar, but if you have a huge list of programs creating keyboard shortcuts will be a good idea.

 

In this guide we will show you how to launch a program with the help of keyboard shortcut:

1. Right-click on the program shortcut and select properties. Note that you can either right-click on desktop shortcut or Start menu shortcut of a program.

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2. Under the Shortcut tab, next to the Shortcut key box, press your own shortcut keys to launch the program.

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3. Click Apply button to save the shortcut keys.

 

4. Press the keyboard shortcut to launch the program.

 

5. Enjoy!

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Posted September 2, 2010 – 4:38 pm in: Themes








After releasing six beautiful Windows 7 themes last week, the team behind Windows 7 personalization gallery is back with four new themes. Yes, the gallery has been updated again with new Taiwanese art themes and are ready to download now.

Choobies

Daydream

The four new themes are: Choobies, Daydream, LotsBears, and Nicole Doll. All these themes come with high-resolution (1900 x 1200) wallpapers.

LotsBears

Nicole Doll

Download and double-click on the theme file to apply













Posted September 2, 2010 – 9:55 pm in: Google Chrome








Four months after the release of Chrome 5.0 and three weeks after the release of 6.0 beta, the stable version of Chrome 6.0.472.53 is ready to download now to celebrate its second anniversary.

Google Chrome 6 Stable

As we have mentioned before in the Chrome 6.0 beta release post, Chrome 6.0 brings slight visual changes to toolbar and omnibox. Along with the old bookmarks, preferences, and themes, one can also sync Autofill data and extensions with this version of Chrome browser.

 

According to the official Chrome blog, Chrome 6.0 is three times

In Windows 7, changing a theme (themepack) is very simple even for a novice user. So, if you are sharing your user account with your family members or friends, you might want to prevent others from changing your favorite theme.

Prevent Users From Changing Windows 7 Theme step5

You can use any of the two methods given below to prevent others from changing your account theme. In the first method, we use the Local Group Policy Editor which is available only in Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate editions. And the second method can be used in all editions of Windows 7.

Method 1:

1. Type gpedit.msc in Start menu search area and hit enter to open Local Group Policy Editor… Continue reading

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