{"id":4380,"date":"2012-05-26T10:51:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T14:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=4380"},"modified":"2012-05-26T10:51:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T14:51:51","slug":"controlling-active-windows-using-your-keyboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/controlling-active-windows-using-your-keyboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Controlling Active Windows using your Keyboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are like TC, a control freak, and you&#8217;re \u00a0busy all the time, you probably have many windows open at once. Clicking your mouse can be tiresome and time consuming.. at least for TC who thinks more than one step to complete a task is more than anyone should endure (i.e., going all the way to the fridge to get a beer?)<\/p>\n<p>You can quickly switch between your email, browser, e-mail, graphic programs, messenger, and other programs without taking your hands off the keyboard, or your beer!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Minimize a window to your taskbar<br \/>\nALT &#8211; SPACEBAR &#8211; N (in one-at-a-time quick sequence, not at the same time)<\/li>\n<li>Maximize a window so it takes up your whole desktop<br \/>\nALT &#8211; SPACEBAR &#8211; X (in sequence)<\/li>\n<li>Switch to the last window you had open<br \/>\nHold down ALT, then click TAB key<\/li>\n<li>Switch to any open program\/window<br \/>\nWhile holding down the ALT key, press TAB key until the window you want is visible\/on top<\/li>\n<li>Close a window<br \/>\nHold down ALT key, then click F4<\/li>\n<li>Restore a window so it&#8217;s visible but does not take up your whole desktop<br \/>\nALT &#8211; SPACEBAR &#8211; R (in sequence)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you use the commands often, you will find that it gets really automatic for you after a while; you will be much more efficient! And the beer will be colder. No, that doesn&#8217;t belong here &#8211; besides people in Europe like warm beer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are like TC, a control freak, and you&#8217;re \u00a0busy all the time, you probably have many windows open at once. Clicking your mouse can be tiresome and time consuming.. at least for TC who thinks more than one step to complete a task is more than anyone should endure (i.e., going all the way to the\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/controlling-active-windows-using-your-keyboard\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4381,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380\/revisions\/4381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}