Clear the Run history on the Start menu!!

1. Vista-
   

   Applies to all editions of Windows Vista

• 1.	Open Taskbar and Start Menu Properties by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, and then clicking Taskbar and Start Menu.

2-XP-Delete run prompt history on taskbar, right click>Properties>Start Menu>Customize> click on clear , wiat for some time and then press OK to come out.

Keyboard Shorcuts for Windows

ENERAL SHORTCUTS
ALT- F4 - Quit a program / Shut down
ALT-TAB - Hold down the ALT key and hit tab to cycle through open windows.
CTL-ESCAPE - Display the Start menu
SHIFT - TAB - tab backwards through a form
CTRL - X - Cut
CTRL - C - Copy
CTRL - V - Paste
F1 - Help menu
CTRL - Z - Undo
SHIFT & Restart - To restart just windows and not your whole computer, hold down the shift key when you click the OK button on the shutdown screen. Saves lots of time. (not for XP)
CRTL-TAB - Navigate tabs on a tabbed screen

Understanding Internet addresses

Understanding Internet addresses An Internet or Web address (sometimes called a URL, or Uniform Resource Locator) typically is composed of four parts:

• A protocol name (a protocol is a set of rules and standards that enable computers to exchange information)
• The location of the site
• The name of the organization that maintains the site
• A suffix that identifies the kind of organization it is (such as .com for a commercial organization)

For example, the address http://www.microsoft.com/ provides the following information:

http:	This Web server uses Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
www	This site is on the World Wide Web.
microsoft	The Web server is at Microsoft Corporation.
com	This is a commercial institution.

When you are viewing a Web page, the page’s address appears in the Address bar in Internet Explorer.

Ping command Usess

Here are all of the ping options:

example .. In DOS .. c:>ping 192.168.0.1 -t

-t Ping the specifed host until interrupted

-a Resolve addresses to hostnames

-n count Number of echo requests to send

-l size Send buffer size

-f Set Don’t Fragment flag in packet

-i TTL Time To Live

-v TOS Type Of Service

-r count Record route for count hops

-s count Timestamp for count hops

-j host-list Loose source route along host-list

-k host-list Strict source route along host-list

-w timeout Timeout in milliseconds to wait for each reply

Experiment to see how helpful these can be!