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I’ve been using computers for a long time. The other day I looked down at my keyboard and realized that I still use the control key hundreds of times a day. I use that key to perform old-school DOS and Windows shortcuts. And that made me realize that I’ve probably used millions of those old key combination shortcuts over the years, without even realizing it…

The Windows 10 operating system is the most common operating system for business use, which is what makes it surprising that so few know how to adjust its appearance to suit their preferences. For this week’s tip, we’ll go over a few ways to adjust what you’re seeing and/or looking at for maximum productivity.

  Quicker Settings

Your settings are your greatest tool to control your Windows 10 preferences. If you need to change a setting on the fly, you can pull up the menu by pressing CTRL + I or Windows Key + I.

  Zoom In/Out

Whether it’s a graphic you want a closer look at or text that’s just a smidge too small (or the opposite cases) the ability to zoom in or out on the entire screen can quickly become a handy trick to know. You have options here: you can either press CTRL + (+) or CTRL + (-) to zoom in or out, or press CTRL + Scroll Wheel to accomplish the same. Pressing CTRL + 0 will reset the screen to normal.

  Changing Active Applications

If you’ve really got a good groove flowing as you work, pausing to switch windows with your mouse can really trip you up. With some practice, you can use a keyboard shortcut instead, eliminating this inconvenience. Holding Alt as you press Tab will bring up smaller versions of your active windows, and using the directional keys (while still holding Alt) will allow you to select a different one to work in.

  Switching Monitors

Workplaces are seeing more and more multi-monitor setups in use. A shortcut makes it easy to move application windows around and across screens. To move a window to the other monitor, press Windows Key + Shift + Left/Right. Whether you choose left or right depends on which way you want your window to move.

  You can use a simpler version of this shortcut to dock an application or browser window to the side of its current monitor, too. All you press for this one is Windows Key + Left/Right.

  Shortcuts like these can turn you into a Windows power user in no time at all, with a little practice. Do you have a shortcut that you use frequently enough to make it second nature? Share it with us in the comments!

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What are the advantages of employing a Solar Water Heater?

A Solar Water Heater could be a reliable and commercially viable answer to satisfy your daily quandary necessities throughout the year. Solar water heaters are around the word. Currently and have gone thought as a viable various to the electrical geyser for meeting the daily quandary wants of households and business establishments across numerous cities. Not like electrical geysers that use typical electricity, solar water heaters are surroundings, friendly as they capture the warmth, energy obtainable within the Sun‘s rays and transfer it to the water that must be heated.

A solar tank could be a technically well-tried and commercially viable answer to meeting the daily quandary wants of a residential menage. It offers the subsequent benefits:

Availability of quandary throughout the year

With a solar water heater you’re assured of reliable quandary provide throughout the year and these systems if properly put in and maintained have a lifetime of fifteen years and a lot of. With the galore provide of sunshine throughout, these systems will meet your daily quandary wants on most days and even on cloudy days, there’s typically enough beaming heat obtainable to produce you heat water.

Significant savings on water heating prices

An average menage with an electric tank spends concerning twenty fifth of energy prices on heating water and therefore the use of a solar tank has the potential to scale back this value annually by concerning five hundredth to eighty fifth. The littlest solar water utility with a capability of one hundred lpd (liters per day) will replace a a pair of power unit electrical geyser and save up to 1500 units of electricity each year.

It’s also Associate an environmentally friendly possibility

Reduce your quandary carbon footprint: every unit of electricity consumed by an electrical, water geyser result in an efficient coal consumption by 1.5 kilograms at the able plant wants to manufacture this electricity. A 100lpd solar tank, therefore offsets constant coal burning, of concerning 1500 Kg each year.

Saves water: every unit of electricity made at an influence plant consumes on a median three liters of water for cooling functions. Therefore a one hundred lpd solar tank may also save around 4500 liters of water per annum. They are reliable.

Because as long as the sun is shining, quandary can still flow through your pipe and plumbing fixtures. The responsibility of solar water heater is more increased by the actual fact that there aren’t any moving elements and therefore the system is extremely straightforward to keep up, requiring no a lot of care than a customary water utility. Most of the solar systems available today simply require an annual checkup and a system flush to ensure that the system stays operational. Further, warranties are obtainable from makers for the complete system and for the individual elements (tank and collector).

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How to Find Your Lost Windows or Office Product Keys

If you’re planning on doing a reinstall of Windows but can’t find your product key, you’re in luck because it’s stored in the Windows Registry… it’s just not easy to find, and it’s impossible to read without some help. Luckily, we’re here to help.

As you can see in the screenshot above, the product ID is stored in the registry but is in a binary format that can’t be read by humans unless you are some sort of Cylon. You aren’t, are you?

We’re not really sure why Microsoft went to great lengths to make it difficult to see the product keys for their software, especially since they are stored right in there in the registry and can be read by software, if not by humans. We can only assume that they don’t want anybody to re-use a key from an old computer.

The great thing is that you can even recover a key from a computer that won’t boot anymore. All you need is access to the disk drive from a working computer. Keep reading for more.

Note: the keyfinder won’t always work for OEM computers, depending on how they decided to activate the licenses they might have used a single license for all computers. It also doesn’t work for Office 2013.

Finding the Windows Key Without Any Software

Assuming you can boot your computer without any problems, you can easily create a simple VBscript that will read the value out of the registry and then translate it into the format that you need for reinstalling. We’re not sure where this script came from, but reader raphoenix posted it on our forum a long time ago, so we’re sharing it here for you.

Copy and paste the following into a Notepad window:

Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") MsgBox ConvertToKey(WshShell.RegRead ("HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\DigitalProductId")) Function ConvertToKey(Key) Const KeyOffset = 52 i = 28 Chars = "BCDFGHJKMPQRTVWXY2346789" Do Cur = 0 x = 14 Do Cur = Cur * 256 Cur = Key(x + KeyOffset) + Cur Key(x + KeyOffset) = (Cur \ 24) And 255 Cur = Cur Mod 24 x = x -1 Loop While x >= 0 i = i -1 KeyOutput = Mid(Chars, Cur + 1, 1) & KeyOutput If (((29 - i) Mod 6) = 0) And (i <> -1) Then i = i -1 KeyOutput = "-" & KeyOutput End If Loop While i >= 0 ConvertToKey = KeyOutput End Function

You’ll need to use File -> Save As, change the “Save as type” to “All Files” and then name it productkey.vbs or something similar ending with the vbs extension. We’d recommend saving to the desktop for easy access.

Once you’ve saved it, you can just double-click and the popup window will show you your product key.

Protip: If you use CTRL + C when the popup window is active, it will copy the contents of the window to the clipboard, and then you can paste it into Notepad or somewhere else.

Use NirSoft’s ProduKey to Recover Product Keys (Even if You Can’t Boot the PC)

The easiest way to get access to your product key is with a third-party utility, and there’s nobody better at those than NirSoft. Their utilities are always crapware-free, and are always really useful. The only issue with this particular utility is that some antivirus will detect it as a false positive, because some malware might try to steal your product key.

All you have to do is download ProduKey, unzip it, and then run it to immediately see all of your product keys. It’s as simple as that.

If you want to recover a key from a dead computer, you can hook up the hard drive to a working PC, and then run ProduKey and use File -> Select Source to point to the external Windows directory. You can then grab the keys from that computer easily.

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