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A Handy Keyboard Shortcut
For many computer users, multitasking is a must. Between that Web browser,
word processing document, and photo-editing program, your screen can fill up
pretty quickly. Sometimes you need to clear the clutter and get straight to the
Windows Desktop. To quickly minimize all open windows on-screen, press WIN (the
Windows Logo key)-D. Press the combination again to bring the windows back up.
Snip It Good
When you want to clip out a piece of your Desktop and send it to someone,
forget the hassle of Print Screen and cropping in an image editor. The Snipping
Tool built into Window 7 and Windows Vista offers this time-saving functionality
straight from the OS (operating system). Click Start, select All Programs,
Accessories, and Snipping Tool. The Snipping Tool comes up as a small window you
can just drop into a corner of your screen. The pull-down menu alongside the New
button lets you pick from creating snips from a free-form pen, rectangular mouse
drag, the active window, or the entire screen. Once you make the snip, the
graphic comes up in the Snipping Tool editor, where you can add pen and
highlighter markups. Finally, you can save snips in JPEG (Joint Photographic
Experts Group), GIF (Graphics Interchange Format), PNG (Portable Network
Graphics), or HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) formats, or copy and paste them
out of the editor into whatever application you like.
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