Everyday is a school day

[SimonMac]

Just found out (on Scott Hanselman's blog) that Windows 7 includes a "Boot to VHD" feature, allowing you to boot to a virtual drive but use all your hardware in the OS. Nice alternative to partitioning.

Shift-F10 is about my favourite general shortcut key - it brings up the context menu. Useful in loads of places.

Any link on that VHD?!

[Sysman]

Any link on that VHD?!

Less Virtual, More Machine - Windows 7 and the magic of Boot to VHD

Win7 Ultimate can do this too. It's just one of those things I haven't around to trying yet.

[Moscow Mule]

Alt-F4 is another good one

Just hit it to see my avatar...

[SimonMac]

Today's learn-dings is:

To switch to the local domain when logging on a Win7 or Vista Machines use .\%username%

[realityhack]

There's a whole load of them here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_o...oard_shortcuts

A briefly amusing prank on XP machines was ctrl-alt-arrow key to turn someone's screen upside down if they left it unlocked.

[Bunk]

There's a whole load of them here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_o...oard_shortcuts

A briefly amusing prank on XP machines was ctrl-alt-arrow key to turn someone's screen upside down if they left it unlocked.

Briefly? Kept me amused for years