Logon and Shutdown
Working with Files
Your Music
Internet Explorer
Interface
Keyboard

Logon and Shutdown

Do you want to switch quickly between different users in your machine? Use + L to go to your Welcome screen. However, if you have Fast User Switch disabled (either by your choice, or because your computer is a member of a domain), + L is a fast way to lock your machine to others while you have to leave your desk.
If you have multiple users logged on the machine and Fast User Switching enabled, you can bypass the Welcome screen to switch users by going to the User tab in Task Manager, right click on a user and choose Connect.
To shutdown remotely your machine. Create a file called "RemoteShutdown.js" consisting of the following single line:
(new ActiveXObject("Shell.Application")).ShutdownWindows();
Save it on your desktop or anywhere else convenient. When you want to shut down your machine remotely, double-click the file and select your desired shutdown option.

Working with Files

To rename several files at once, select all of them in any folder view, or in the Windows Explorer, rename the FIRST one in the list, and the rest will follow.
To turn off filenames, hold down the Shift key when you click to open a folder in Windows Explorer or when you switch into thumbnail view. This will turn of the file names, giving more space for the thumbnails. Doing it again turns them back on.
Try grouping your files. In the top menu bar select View – Arrange icons by… - Type, and then View – Arrange icons by… - Show in groups.
You can change the size and quality of the shell's thumbnails. Start regedit, expand HKEY_CURRENT_USER (only for you) or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (for all the users in this computer) and in Software – Microsoft – Windows – CurrentVersion – Explorer, add or modify the following entries:

ThumbnailSize – Double Word, decimal value between 32 and 256
ThumbnailQuality – Double Word, decimal value between 50 and 100

Your Music

Set your own Album Art for folder + Media Player. If you don't like the album art or have a folder of downloaded music that you want to add art to, you can simply select any graphic from your browser and save it inside of the folder you want and call it "Folder.jpg". When you now play any music that resides in that folder, the Media Player will automatically pick it up and display it.

Internet Explorer

You can use the Search Companion in Internet Explorer to perform many Internet related actions. Try:

go msft
Go yp cheesecake factory

Interface

Get rid of balloon tips: Start regedit, expand HKEY_CURRENT_USER and set EnableBalloonTips=0x00000000
Disable the Search companion to go back to the traditional search view: Start regedit, expand HKEY_CURRENT_USER and in Software – Microsoft – Windows – CurrentVersion – Explorer – CabinetState, set the value of Use Search Asst to "no"
Turn off the low disk space notification: Start regedit, expand HKEY_CURRENT_USER and in Software – Microsoft – Windows – CurrentVersion – Policies - Explorer, and set the value of NoLowDiskSpaceChecks to DWORD = 1. (This modification requires a logoff or reboot to work)
You can force your taskbar to group windows. Any application that has any number you decide of windows open will automatically cluster, regardless of how full your taskbar is. To set this: Start regedit, expand HKEY_CURRENT_USER and in Software – Microsoft – Windows – CurrentVersion – Explorer - Advanced, and create a REG_DWORD with the name TaskbarGroupSize and the value you want to reach before the windows are clustered together on the taskbar. (This modification requires a logoff to work).

Keyboard

· + Break opens the Control Panel System applet.

· + Tab moves through the taskbar buttons

· + D shows the Desktop

· + L shows the Welcome screen, or locks the machine if Fast User Switching is disabled.