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Title: Internet\'s secrets, cheats, curiosities...
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on August 25, 2002, 02:56:05 PM
If you know any of them, post them here. Did you know that...



Share them!
Title: Internet\'s secrets, cheats, curiosities...
Post by: Soul Reaver on August 25, 2002, 02:57:31 PM
If you stare at the screen long enough without blinking, you see a green dot.
Title: Internet\'s secrets, cheats, curiosities...
Post by: kopking on August 25, 2002, 03:00:23 PM
lol. have to rember the windows keys + m one......
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Post by: videoholic on August 25, 2002, 04:30:19 PM
To type in a website in the address bar you don\'t have to type www or .com..  You can just type the middle and hit Cntrl-Enter.


If you want to print a small portion of a website you can just higlight what you want printed, go to print and there is an option to print selection.  

Those are two I use all the time
Title: Internet\'s secrets, cheats, curiosities...
Post by: SER on August 25, 2002, 07:34:28 PM
Windows-Key + M..... I\'ve always used this. :p
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Post by: Seraphim Pride on August 25, 2002, 08:25:50 PM
If you have Win ME pressing Crtl+Alt+Del at the same time  twice gives you temporary relief.
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Post by: theomen on August 25, 2002, 09:03:21 PM
type "deltree c:" in dos, and it will give you porn.
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Post by: on August 25, 2002, 10:18:57 PM
Seriously? :rolleyes:

Erm... Tools>Clear history is one i use alot
and all my other ones are covered. :D

I will have to remember that restore one... :P
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Post by: SonyFan on August 25, 2002, 11:11:57 PM
If you delete your windows registry, you\'ll stop pop-ups and spyware permenantly.
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Post by: Blunt on August 25, 2002, 11:14:36 PM
if you hit F11 in internet explorer you can get rid of everything but the toolbar....
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Post by: SER on August 26, 2002, 01:45:24 AM
^^^
lmao. DUH.
Title: Internet\'s secrets, cheats, curiosities...
Post by: IronFist on August 26, 2002, 08:11:39 AM
Shift + click to open links in a new window (everyone probably already knows that one.)
Title: Internet\'s secrets, cheats, curiosities...
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on August 26, 2002, 08:54:08 AM
Good one Video :)
Title: Internet\'s secrets, cheats, curiosities...
Post by: videoholic on August 26, 2002, 08:57:54 AM
This thread could have been interesting, but like many others it gets screwed up by doofuses...

I can\'t keep deleting posts.  My computer isn\'t fast enough with how many crappy posts keep pooping up.
Title: Internet\'s secrets, cheats, curiosities...
Post by: Samwise on August 26, 2002, 08:59:02 AM
ALT-F4 makes the pr0n go away, if the boss enters.
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Post by: Jar O Pickles on August 26, 2002, 10:12:49 AM
make a short cut on you desktop call it rundll32.exe open the properties of the icon and in the target line type
%windir%\\System32\\Rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks
youll have an icon that will shut idle tasks you have running so you can free up some ram just before you run a big program may only work in winxp though
Title: Internet\'s secrets, cheats, curiosities...
Post by: on August 26, 2002, 10:39:56 AM
Yeah I think that one does. Also you can just CTRL+ALT+DLT and end some of the tasks your not using. I have a bunch of crap that I dont even know what it is.

One I just found out;

In your address bar, if you type find, go, or ? followed by a space and a phrase or word, it will search the internet for that Sometimes it could save you time. :P
I\'ll looks for some more...

Another one**edit If you press ALT+Left arrow you will go back, backspace also works, if you press ALT+Right arrow you will go forward.

If you press ALT+D it will take you to the address bar, in case your too lazy to click it.

CTRL+F is a word search for the site you are on.

F5 = Refresh

You can type a word in the Address bar and press CTRL+ENTER to automatically add http://www. and .com on either side of the word.

I found most of these in HELP>Tip of the day. :D
Title: Internet\'s secrets, cheats, curiosities...
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on August 26, 2002, 10:48:30 AM
Jar O Pickles really good one, and it works! It\'s useful also for starting a desfragment of HDD.
Title: Internet\'s secrets, cheats, curiosities...
Post by: Tyrant on August 26, 2002, 10:55:34 AM
u guys have put up some pretty neat tips, gonna have to remember them ;).
Title: Internet\'s secrets, cheats, curiosities...
Post by: on August 26, 2002, 10:56:17 AM
Yeah i got it all right, how do you know it worked?
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Post by: IronFist on August 26, 2002, 11:32:52 AM
CTRL + up or down arrow changes the text size.  Ctrl + the mouse wheel button up or down does the same.
Title: Internet\'s secrets, cheats, curiosities...
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on August 26, 2002, 01:04:53 PM
Spudz you may have a window with your applications that are running at the moment. BTW, Ironfist, your tip works great.
Title: Internet\'s secrets, cheats, curiosities...
Post by: Soul Reaver on August 26, 2002, 01:08:53 PM
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CTRL + up or down arrow changes the text size. Ctrl + the mouse wheel button up or down does the same.


It doesn\'t work with netscape.

Alt + Mouse wheel down makes you go back, up makes you go forward.
Title: Internet\'s secrets, cheats, curiosities...
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on August 26, 2002, 01:20:02 PM
It worked fine to me. I don\'t use Netscape, but feel free to post hints of it, many people use this program.
Title: Internet\'s secrets, cheats, curiosities...
Post by: on August 26, 2002, 02:02:48 PM
Also if you click on your mouse scroll (It works for me) It will pop up a little circle with a triangle on it, scroll with that thing. I use it alot, since it just looks cooler.

Thanks guys, some good stuff.
Title: Internet\'s secrets, cheats, curiosities...
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on August 26, 2002, 02:05:41 PM
Spudz, scroll buttons of mice are programmable so each member will have a program or an action associate with it. Me, for example, have the Explorer.
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Post by: nataku on August 26, 2002, 02:13:18 PM
Ctrl+Esc opens the start menu.  Then you can navigate it with the arrow keys.

For those times when you\'re just to lazy to move the mouse over to click Shut Down.
Title: Internet\'s secrets, cheats, curiosities...
Post by: on August 26, 2002, 02:21:53 PM
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Originally posted by Adan
Spudz, scroll buttons of mice are programmable so each member will have a program or an action associate with it. Me, for example, have the Explorer.


oh, i thought they all had it the same, How do you "program" it.

God, I\'m lame at computer stuff.
Title: Internet\'s secrets, cheats, curiosities...
Post by: Soul Reaver on August 26, 2002, 02:23:55 PM
Pressing CTRL and Q closes whatever you are curently looking at.
Title: Internet\'s secrets, cheats, curiosities...
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on August 26, 2002, 02:26:06 PM
Nice one Soul.

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oh, i thought they all had it the same, How do you "program" it.


Go to Control Panel and click on your mouse icon. There you can program the buttons, and other skills.
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Post by: EmperorRob on August 26, 2002, 02:57:25 PM
\'windowskey\' + M does not restore every window, it minimizes them all.

\'windowskey\' + E opens Windows Explorer.

Alt+F4 will close any open window (unless the developer has disabled this feature such as in games).

Hitting spacebar in IE/Mozilla scrolls the browser one page equivalent to hitting PageDown.  Home will take you to the top.  End will take you to the bottom.

Ctrl+F in most Windows text apps is a shortcut for "Find Text"

If you don\'t have a \'windowskey\' on your keyboard you can simulate it by pressing \'Ctrl+Esc\'

Inside IE, pressing tab changes the focus of your cursor.  Shift+Tab will reverse the focus order.


BEOTCH!
Title: Internet\'s secrets, cheats, curiosities...
Post by: videoholic on August 26, 2002, 03:20:26 PM
Windows-shift-M restores them all


Cntrl + arrow doesn\'t do jack for me.
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Post by: IronFist on August 26, 2002, 06:24:19 PM
It looks like CTRL + arrows font size change is a Netcaptor exclusive.  I should have tested it in regular IE before posting it.  Sorry.

Press Alt, space, then "n" to minimize your currect window.

In IE, Alt+left or right arrow takes you back or forward.
Title: Internet\'s secrets, cheats, curiosities...
Post by: on August 26, 2002, 08:09:14 PM
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Originally posted by IronFist

In IE, Alt+left or right arrow takes you back or forward.


as mm would say;

i swear noone reads my posts!
Title: Internet\'s secrets, cheats, curiosities...
Post by: Samwise on August 27, 2002, 01:49:12 AM
Ctrl+F5 does a \'hard\' refresh. Useful when you have cached an image and then changed it, but it won\'t refresh properly.
Title: Internet\'s secrets, cheats, curiosities...
Post by: SER on August 27, 2002, 02:19:01 AM
ooooo, I likey the ctrl up/down mouse button thing. I just used it. :D
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Post by: DiamondCutter2 on August 27, 2002, 08:05:50 AM
An oldie but a goodie!
Hitting backspace when using IE will do the same as clicking the back button!
Title: Internet\'s secrets, cheats, curiosities...
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on August 27, 2002, 08:36:53 AM
Samwise I didn\'t get it very well, can you explain it again? I\'m very interested in all these cheats.
Title: Internet\'s secrets, cheats, curiosities...
Post by: Samwise on August 27, 2002, 08:42:42 AM
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Originally posted by Adan
Samwise I didn\'t get it very well, can you explain it again? I\'m very interested in all these cheats.
It\'s not a \'cheat\' per say, it\'s just a shortcut. I can\'t really explain it well - but it empties the IE cache and refreshes the page.
Title: Internet\'s secrets, cheats, curiosities...
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on August 27, 2002, 08:46:07 AM
Yes, but what\'s the main difference between refresh the page with only F5 and refresh it with Ctrl+F5?
Title: Internet\'s secrets, cheats, curiosities...
Post by: Samwise on August 27, 2002, 09:08:09 AM
I don\'t know the details; it\'s just better. I guess it\'s because a normal refresh doesn\'t reload the cached pictures, whereas CTRL+F5 does.
Title: Internet\'s secrets, cheats, curiosities...
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on August 27, 2002, 09:15:04 AM
ah! I understand... something similar to load a webpage without using temporary inet files... cool.

Thanx Samwise ;)
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Post by: theomen on August 27, 2002, 11:34:30 AM
a little thing for the n00bs

if your trying to copy a shortcut from a picture, but when you right click on it, you get a message about concerving bandwidth.  Just click show source in your browser, and find the link.  Everyone probably knows this, but oh well.
Title: Internet\'s secrets, cheats, curiosities...
Post by: PS2_-'_'-_PS2 on August 27, 2002, 11:43:06 AM
Hardly any of this stuff works with an AOL browser :(=]
Title: Internet\'s secrets, cheats, curiosities...
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on August 27, 2002, 11:52:13 AM
PS2, anybody will post some of them, don\'t worry :p

And some hints for those who use Netscape:

Type the following in the address (Location) field for special information: (Do not type the quotes)

"about:cache" gives a list of all files in the disk cache.
"about:global" lists all the places you\'ve visited and when.
"about:image-cache" lists all image files in the cache.
"about:memory-cache" lists all files in the memory cache.
Title: Internet\'s secrets, cheats, curiosities...
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on August 27, 2002, 12:01:58 PM
PS2_-\'_\'-_PS2 here you are some of them:

CONTROL +
A Select All
C Copy
F Find
G Get a Profile
I Open a new IM box
K Keyword
L Locator
M Write Mail
N New
O Open
P Print
R Open Mailbox
S Save
V Paste
X Copy & Cut
Z Undo Enter Send IM
SS Sign Off
FX Close Highlighted window
Title: Internet\'s secrets, cheats, curiosities...
Post by: Kurt Angle on August 27, 2002, 12:44:13 PM
Wow Adan, most of those I have never heard of. I will have to try some of them.
Title: Internet\'s secrets, cheats, curiosities...
Post by: DiamondCutter2 on August 28, 2002, 07:37:18 AM
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Originally posted by theomen
a little thing for the n00bs

if your trying to copy a shortcut from a picture, but when you right click on it, you get a message about concerving bandwidth.  Just click show source in your browser, and find the link.  Everyone probably knows this, but oh well.


I have never been told to conserve bandwidth.  Where are you in what country and what ISP do you use?
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Post by: IronFist on August 28, 2002, 10:16:39 AM
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Originally posted by DiamondCutter2


I have never been told to conserve bandwidth.  Where are you in what country and what ISP do you use?

I think he is referring to how people prevent you from right clicking on their pictures to 1, make sure you don\'t steal their pics, and 2, make sure you don\'t post their pics on a forum (which takes up their bandwidth whenever someone views the thread with the pic in it).  It isn\'t very common for people to do this anymore, but there are times when you will encounter it.
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Post by: EmperorRob on August 28, 2002, 10:37:05 AM
One thing I\'ve found is that the java/javascript ways of blocking a right-click in IE do not work in Mozilla.
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Post by: PS2_-'_'-_PS2 on September 02, 2002, 11:46:35 AM
Thanks Adan, a few i didnt know there=]
Title: Internet\'s secrets, cheats, curiosities...
Post by: Living-In-Clip on September 02, 2002, 11:49:48 AM
Apple key + Control + ESC.
The greatest tool of all.