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Nov 22nd, 2011 at 4:40am

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I've been using PC's since the Tablet really was made of stone ...


Yet I've ONLY discovered (by accident) that you can instantly change screen display size by Ctrl & mouse wheel. ........


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Reply #1 - Nov 22nd, 2011 at 4:52am

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Its only recently that I discovered it is possible to pop in and out of the Flight Sim, and other programs, (full screen mode), without shutting it down, just by pressing the "Windows Key"!

Then returning back to the program by clicking on it in the Task Bar!

Very handy for doing modifications whilst the program is running...(FS Panel Studio, etc)!

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Reply #2 - Nov 22nd, 2011 at 7:48am

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I didn't know that either, I'm glad I do now so I don't do it my accident.  My fiancee once managed to make her display flip upside down, and it took me half an hour to figure out how she did it.
 
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Reply #3 - Nov 22nd, 2011 at 9:12am

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Here's another one you may not know about...under your scroll wheel is a third button. Push it down to click it, then move your mouse up or down. Wheelless scrolling. (clicking any button on the mouse cancels it) I, like you, only, discovered that one a short time ago.
 
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Reply #4 - Nov 22nd, 2011 at 12:43pm

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Groundbound1 wrote on Nov 22nd, 2011 at 9:12am:
Here's another one you may not know about...under your scroll wheel is a third button. Push it down to click it, then move your mouse up or down. Wheelless scrolling. (clicking any button on the mouse cancels it) I, like you, only, discovered that one a short time ago.


Nice tip! Much faster than mouse wheeling up & down pages ...  Cool
 
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Reply #5 - Nov 22nd, 2011 at 1:35pm

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i knew that already(both things),first one by accident,and i kind of knew that there was a button under the scroll thingy.
i used to use it all the time,now i never do.

and how the helll did she turn it upside down. Cheesy
 
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Reply #6 - Nov 22nd, 2011 at 1:43pm

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Plus I learned from the WoT forums that you can press alt+enter to make the full screen minimize down to have the screen so you can see the desktop.

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Reply #7 - Nov 22nd, 2011 at 6:50pm

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jetprop wrote on Nov 22nd, 2011 at 1:35pm:
and how the helll did she turn it upside down. Cheesy


I know on some machines it's ctrl+alt+arrow key in the direction you want to turn the screen.  I frequently flip my coworkers screens if they leave their machine unattended and unlocked.
 
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Reply #8 - Nov 22nd, 2011 at 7:09pm

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F11 is handy to. I just heard about it a year and a half ago.  Roll Eyes   (MS Windows)
 
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Reply #9 - Nov 22nd, 2011 at 8:09pm

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jetprop wrote on Nov 22nd, 2011 at 1:35pm:
and how the helll did she turn it upside down. Cheesy


After much exploration of her computer, I discovered her video card had options such as "Display Orientation", and that the right amount of random clicks and key presses (from bumping the mouse and keyboard with stuff), could change said setting.  Of course I had to figure out all of this while standing on my head.
 
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Reply #10 - Nov 22nd, 2011 at 8:23pm

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I only didn't know about the ctrl+roll wheel. Thanks!
The rest I knew from various accidents that happened when I was still a newbie in the computer world. The windows key however I found out when I got my first USB keyboard which had that key, unlike the previous one, and I tried it out.
 
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Reply #11 - Nov 23rd, 2011 at 2:53am

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I found the CTRL mouse wheel by accident a couple of weeks ago. I don't know how old that function is, but I converted to a PC in...............1993 Grin Grin

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Reply #12 - Nov 23rd, 2011 at 8:34am

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Son of a Bee, would ya look at that.   Far out!   It even works in Excel.  I've been using macros in Excel to do that, but this will also come in super handy.

Internet Explorer has that feature in a button at lower right, but using ctrl/mousewheel gives smaller increments, 5 percent each.

Excel is 15 percent each.

So, three cheers, or better yet, three beers, for Pete, thanks loads.

 
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Reply #13 - Nov 23rd, 2011 at 1:28pm

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I learn that a very long time ago for one of the post in this forum  Cheesy
 
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Reply #14 - Nov 25th, 2011 at 9:23am

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