   Little Windows trick for you...
  New to me, though some of you might know of it already. It comes courtesy of F-Secure, who took inspiration from Roger Grimes.Right-click on the DesktopCreate a new ShortcutPoint the location of the item to any executable... such as: c:\windows\system32\calc.exeName the shortcut, for example, www.microsoft.comStart Internet Explorer (IE5 and IE6 work best, it also works with the IE7 latest)Type "www.microsoft.com" into the address barEnjoy.   
  www.gamedev.net -> C:\path\to\IDE.exeI should be able to get some work done now...(if only I used IE)   ;  I heard that if you press alt-F4, it opens up a super secret easter egg in WindowsXP.   ;  Try this utterly useless feature in MS Word. Type "=rand(200,99)" and press enter.[smile] Pretty obvious as to what it does, but hopelessly useless in normal word processing situations.Anymore tricks?   ;  The shortcut trick is a little lame, because it basically describes expected Windows behaviour. When you do not specify 'http:' in your URL, Windows will look for local files and open/run them normally. So, typing 'c:\winnt\notepad.exe' in the address bar yields the same result. It could perhaps be abused but it's not really black magic.   ;  Uh...IE shares a shell with Windows Explorer. To effect that, it first attempts to parse any addresses typed into the address bar as local references, before attempting to resolve them as internet addresses. Interestingly, where IE 6 and prior would reskin the window to appear as Windows Explorer, IE 7 will open a new Windows Explorer window.There's also a shortcut key sequence in Excel to populate an entire spreadsheet with sample data, comparable to the Word "Lorem Ipsum" shortcut sequence. I don't know either of them off-head.   ;  BTW here's my favorite registry hack:-Open RegEdit-Goto HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\Shell-Create a new key, call it "Command Prompt"-Create a subkey named Command-Set Command default value to "Cmd.exe /k cd %1"-Close RegEditNow, right-click on any folder for a prompt starting in that directory. Even works on My Computer (inits to desktop directory, ever had to go there from C:\ ?) [smile]   ;Quote:Original post by PrototypeBTW here's my favorite registry hack:-Open RegEdit-Goto HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\Shell-Create a new key, call it "Command Prompt"-Create a subkey named Command-Set Command default value to "Cmd.exe /k cd %1"-Close RegEditNow, right-click on any folder for a prompt starting in that directory. Even works on My Computer (inits to desktop directory, ever had to go there from C:\ ?) [smile]That is frickin fantastic.   ;Quote:Original post by OluseyiUh...IE shares a shell with Windows Explorer. To effect that, it first attempts to parse any addresses typed into the address bar as local references, before attempting to resolve them as internet addresses. Interestingly, where IE 6 and prior would reskin the window to appear as Windows Explorer, IE 7 will open a new Windows Explorer window.Oh, I know how and why it works, I just thought it was interesting.   ;Quote:Original post by PrototypeBTW here's my favorite registry hack:-Open RegEdit-Goto HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\Shell-Create a new key, call it "Command Prompt"-Create a subkey named Command-Set Command default value to "Cmd.exe /k cd %1"-Close RegEditNow, right-click on any folder for a prompt starting in that directory. Even works on My Computer (inits to desktop directory, ever had to go there from C:\ ?) [smile]That is a very very usefull trick.   