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All of us have seen the Windows Key on our keyboards. I have shown mine in the picture above. For what we use the Windows key? Opening the start menu only or might be to take a screenshot (If you are my subscriber you must have been using it to take screenshots ). But you can do much more with the Windows key. Here I am going to present more than forty keyboard shortcuts that include the Windows Key. You do not need to remember all these shortcuts. Just remember those which you use most and bookmark this page in your browser so that you can easily see other shortcuts when you need. You can also print this webpage. So let's start. Windows Key    Open/close the  start menu Windows Key + Tab     Show virtual desktops Windows Key + Ctrl + D    Create a new virtual desktop Windows Key + Ctrl + F4    Close the active virtual desktop Windows Key + Ctrl + Right/Left ArrowKeys    Switch virtual desktops See this to learn mor...

Creating an unnamed file or folder in Windows is not a simple task. Even if you put a space instead of the name, you will not be able to do the task. Here I am going to present a trick on how create a nameless file or folder  and how you can make a previously present file or folder nameless. Creating a new Nameless file or folder: 1. Right click anywhere (which is not an icon or button) and then select New . Now select the folder or type of file you want to create. (If the file type is not there, you can see this post on how to add items to new context menu in Windows ) 2. A new file or folder will appear depending on what you selected in the previous step. 3. Now hold down alt key and type 255 on your numeric keypad. Release the alt key. 4. Press enter. The file/folder will now have a blank name. Making an existing file/folder nameless:   1. Right click the file/folder you ant to make nameless and select Rename from the drop down menu. You can also...

In previous posts I told you about creating virtual hard disk in Windows 8, 8.1 & 10 , creating virtual hard disk in Windows 7 , mounting and unmounting virtual hard disks in Windows 8, 8.1 &10 and mounting and unmounting virtual hard disks in Windows 7 . Now I am going to tell you how you can make a virtual hard disk automatically mount at startup in Windows 7 and above. Some versions of Windows 10 will not unmount the virtual hard disk until you restart the computer. So you can mount a virtual hard disk and then turn off your computer and then turn it on to see what happens and then restart your computer to see what happens. If you feel the need that you should make the hard disk automatically mount at startup, follow this tutorial. It is divided in two parts:    Part ONE (Creating a batch file): In this part we will create a batch file which will contain commands to attach the virtual hard disk. If there is one virtual hard disk to attach: 1. Press ...