Today’s tech tip:Helpful Commands

Thomas Powis, Thomas Powis

Today I am going to go over a combination of different tips that can help everyone to navigate a computer much easier. These tips will include ways to create your own shortcuts or macros to launch programs faster.  I will also explain how to use a couple of hotkeys to navigate browsers easier also.

The first tip is to set a keyboard shortcut for launching a program.  First, single-click on the program you want to create a shortcut for, then right click and create a shortcut of it.  Next, right click on the shortcut and click on properties and select shortcut.  After clicking on shortcut go down to the box that says shortcut key and enter your desired key.

The second tip, is a way to navigate chrome easier.  First you can press control+L to navigate to the search bar then either tab to move through the suggested searches or control d to make bookmark.

The final tip, or couple of tips on how to use some hotkeys to navigate easier.  Use alt+tab to cycle through all open tabs.  Use alt+e to open up options.  Use f1 to launch the help command if you are having an issue with anything.  Finally use alt+f4 to end a program.

That is the tip for the day some useful tech tips enjoy and use responsibly!