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Personally I would preferred to use keyboard shortcuts instead of mouse. In fact, you may said you can save a lot of time using mouse for certain task. In some cases, you must know the right keys to push to do what you need to do much more faster.

There are some required VMware keyboard shortcuts you should know:

Ctrl+B - Power on the Virtual Machine
Ctrl+D - Edit the Virtual Machine Settings
Ctrl+E - Power off the Virtual Machine
Ctrl+G - Grab input from mouse & keyboard
Ctrl+N - Create a new Virtual Machine
Ctrl+O - Open a Virtual Machine
Ctrl+P - Edit User Preferences
Ctrl+R - Reset Virtual Machine
Ctrl+Z - Suspend the Virtual Machine
Ctrl+F4 - Close the selected Virtual Machine
Ctrl+Alt - Return to normal(windowed) mode
Ctrl+Alt+Enter - Switch to Full Screen Mode
Ctrl+Tab - Switch between open virtual machines while mouse and keyboard input are not grabbed. VMware Workstation must be the active application. Read more »

Microsoft Windows XP or Vista control panel can adjust and tweak Windows’ appearance, performance, network connections, security, power, hardware settings and etc.

But to access the Windows Control Panel, you need to navigate through the Start menu or create a shortcut on your computer desktop. Just like an executable or programs file, Control panel applets can easily be launch from the ‘run‘ command. Again, there is no difference with opening items from the Windows Control Panel, but this can save several steps from navigate through the Start menu.

For example, to launch Add New Hardware Wizard, just type hdwwiz.cpl in the run command field and click OK.

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Just came across about Linux/Unix Shell Shortcuts from Ubuntu tutorial. Use a Linux/UNIX shell effectively in order to save the time, typing and toil.

ctrl-insert : copy

shift-insert : paste

shift-delete : cut

shift-ctrl-C : copy

shift-ctrl-V : paste

ctrl-l : clearing the screen

ctrl-d : exiting the shell or logging out

ctrl-r + command : searching the history

esc-. or alt-. : Using the previous argurment

ll : Repeats and runs previous command

echo !$ : echo the last argument of the previous command

!ls - Runs the most recent command that begins with ls
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I’m very happy with the Shylock Adsense Wordpress plug-in introduced few days back but I think it’s not enough. So I’m thinking of modify shylock_adsense.php coding for adding a new features such as insert adsense in comment page. I managed to have ‘comment’ page display on the main screen but the Google adsense ads keep missing.

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This is an interesting article source from HowToGeek.com - ‘Kill Windows with the Blue Screen of Death in 3 Keystrokes that make me think of “How To Create Windows Blue Screen Of Death“.

What is Blue Screen O Death?

Blue Screen of Death (also known as a stop error, BSOD or bluescreen) is an error screen displayed by certain operating systems, most notably Microsoft Windows, after encountering a critical system error which can cause the system to shut down to prevent damage. Bluescreens can be caused by poorly written device drivers, faulty memory, a corrupt Registry, or incompatible DLLs. Bluescreens have been present in all Windows-based operating systems since Windows 3.1; OS/2 and MS-DOS suffered the Black Screen of Death, and early builds of Windows Vista displayed the Red Screen of Death after a boot loader error.

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