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Keyboard Shortcuts for Managing Windows 7

Fifosys News Desk — Mon, 24 May 2010 16:31:12 +0000

1. Alt+F4 – Close the active window
2. Alt+Tab – Switch to previous active window
3. Alt+Esc – Cycle through all open windows
4. Windows Key+Tab- Flip 3D
5. Ctrl+Windows Key+Tab- Persistent Flip 3D
6. Windows Key+M – Minimize all open windows
7. Windows Key+Shift+M – Undo all window minimization
8. Windows Key+D – Toggle showing the desktop
9. Windows Key+Up – Maximize window
10. Windows Key+Down – Minimize windows / Restore
11. Windows Key+Left – Dock window to the left side
12. Windows Key+Right – Dock window to the right side
13. Windows Key+Shift Up – Maximize vertical size of window
14. Windows Key+Shift Down – Restore vertical size
15. Windows Key+Shift Left – Move window to left monitor
16. Windows Key+Shift Right – Move window to right monitor
17. Windows Key+Spacebar – Aero desktop peek

The McAfee Update – What was the fallout?

Fifosys News Desk — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:34:48 +0000

On Wednesday evening McAfee issued an update for their anti-virus software. This update identified a critical Window XP file as a virus and quarantined it. In short it rendered the affected computer useless, with the user unable to turn on their PC. This fault affected many businesses across the world, including supermarkets, banks and offices. McAfee have now issued a fix for this but it is manual, meaning that if an office with hundreds of computers has been affected their PCs will have to be dealt with one at a time.

This issue mainly effected companies in the USA and Australia as they were starting their business day just as the update was made available. By the time the UK started work McAfee had already issued a new update without the glitch. Fortunately this did not affect any Fifosys clients.

Instruction on what to do if your business has been affected can be found at https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=KB68780

Barry McPherson, executive vice president of support and customer service, said on the company’s blog

“As you know, McAfee on Wednesday released a faulty signature update file (DAT file) that caused problems for a number of our customers.

First off, I want to apologize on behalf of McAfee and say that we’re extremely sorry for any impact the faulty signature update file may have caused you and your organizations.

I want to give you a brief update on what has happened since we first became aware of the false detection. McAfee team members have been working around the clock to fix the problem and work with impacted customers. We estimate that the majority of the affected systems are back up and running at this time and more systems are coming back online quickly.”

Do let us know if you were affected and need any help.

Open the Last Opened Document

Fifosys News Desk — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:42:02 +0000

You can create an icon on your desktop that will launch Word and automatically open the document you last opened. Either locate the file Winword .exe in Windows Explorer (for Office 2003, this is typically in C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOFFICE11) or find it with the Search item on the Start menu (in the Search tool, you’ll probably need to turn on More advanced options, then add checkmarks next to Search system folders and Search subfolders).

Once you find Winword .exe, right-click on the file icon and drag it to your desktop, and then select Create Shortcuts Here. Right-click on the new shortcut icon, choose Properties, and go to the Shortcut tab. In the Target field, after the existing file path, add a space and then /mFile1. You can also assign a shortcut key if you want to launch the file with a keystroke combination. When you’re done, click on Apply. In the General tab, give the shortcut a descriptive name and click on OK.

Messenger in Command Prompt

Fifosys News Desk — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:36:55 +0000

If you know your colleagues IP address do the following:

Firstly, open Notepad and enter:

@echo off

Cls

echo MESSENGER

set /p n=User:

set /p m=Message:

net send %n% %m%

Pause

Goto A

Now save this as “Messenger.bat”. Open the .bat file and in Command Prompt you should see:

MESSENGER
User:

After “User” type the IP address of the computer you want to contact.
After this, you should see this:

Message:

Now type in the message you wish to send.
Before you press “Enter” it should look like this:

MESSENGER
User: 56.108.104.107
Message: Hi

Now all you need to do is press “Enter”, and start chatting!