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Planning is often the key to productivity improvement. Take for example, the art of serving tea properly:

The current status is that there is no boiled water. Boiler, teapot and cups are yet to be washed. Tea leaves are not yet prepared. What is the plan? We have 3 options.

 

 

We all know that using shortcuts when using Windows will save our time, and some shortcuts are well known and used, but some others are even more useful than the usual and are not as well known.

 

The basic hotkeyss are Ctrl + C to copy, Ctrl + X to cut and Ctrl + V to paste, they are well known but unless you are very fast typing right clicking will do the same job and for some people will be even faster. Alt + Tab is very known as well to switch from a window to another, but when we have a whole lot of them it is not as useful as it looks.

 

Here we go with some less known like for example Windows + D (Windows key is the key with the windows logo usually located between Ctrl and Alt). This key combination will minimize all windows and will show the desktop. It is very useful when you got a whole lot of open windows and you want to execute a shortcut from your desktop. If after clicking on the shortcut you want to restore all the windows to their previous state you just have to hit Windows + Shift + M.

 

Windows + E will show the windows explorer with a single combination, no need to look for the icon elsewhere and Alt + F4 will close a window without having to look for the X to close it.

 

Sometimes we will need to search for something fast, the only thing you got to do is hitting Windows + F hotkey and the search menu will open.

 

There are some other combinations which need to have IntelliType installed in your computer and will be revisited as long with other tricks of IntelliType.

Below are the Five Stages that everyone experiences when learning to type

Two-finger typing not knowing the key positions Two-finger typing knowing the key positions All-finger typing looking at the keyboard All-finger typing not looking at the keyboard (touch typing) All-finger typing not looking at the screen

 

During the days of win98/ME, an essential tool for windows trouble-shooting is the bootdisk. That is because back then, windows was notoriously easy to break. System files occasionally got corrupted, or the boot sector got messed up by a virus. When the system refused to boot, we called bootdisk in to help out.

 

Windows system of today is more stable, such scenarios rarely happen. But when they do happen, and when the standard recovery process fails, the downtime could be costly. Most often, the trouble prevents the user from retrieving important files that are stored inside the hard disk. The tool that has replaced bootdisk and comes to the rescue is a Linux LiveCD.

 

Windows users' impression of Linux had always been: a command-line driven OS, secure but not user-friendly, it can hardly accomplish anything produtive except being a good server. That impression has gradually changed since the day we were introduced to Ubuntu Linux, the most user-friendly Linux distribution out there.Today, most Windows tasks can be performed on Linux too. Even to a user who has never touched Linux in his/her life and one day finds the need to use Linux for the first time to retrieve a file from a computer on which windows is unable to boot, Linux isn't difficult to use. A little bit of patience, some time for trial and error is all that is needed to figure out how to get something done.