{"id":346,"date":"2007-08-01T22:07:52","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T03:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/08\/01\/efficiency-tip-99-windows-1-windows-2\/"},"modified":"2015-05-14T09:12:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T14:12:27","slug":"efficiency-tip-99-windows-1-windows-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/08\/01\/efficiency-tip-99-windows-1-windows-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Efficiency Tip #99 &#8211; Windows-1, Windows-2&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/onetwothree.png\" alt=\"onetwothree.png\" title=\"onetwothree.png\" \/>Until Vista, I was never a fan of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/windowshelp.microsoft.com\/Windows\/en-US\/help\/45a1b648-87a8-4e1a-86ab-1becc2a581441033.mspx\">Quick Launch<\/a> toolbar.\u00a0 The small set of icons just to the right of the Start button seemed redundant.\u00a0 Since I&#8217;m a keyboard-shortcut fan, the extra &#8220;click-only&#8221; icons were just in the way.\u00a0 With Vista it is a different story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now those icons are numbered by the new Windows OS.\u00a0 The icon closest to the Start button is number one.\u00a0 The next icon is number two.\u00a0 To &#8220;click&#8221; the first icon, press the Windows key and the number one.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On my computer, Windows-1 opens IE, Windows-2 opens Firefox, Windows-3 opens Word&#8230; you get the idea.\u00a0 Since the Quick Launch bar is configurable, I can control which icon is in each position.\u00a0 If I want Word to be in that first spot, I can click and drag the Word icon from number three over to number one.<\/p>\n<p>If you look back at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/04\/23\/efficiency-tip-1\/\">tip number one<\/a>, you will see IE took three key\u00a0strokes in XP:<\/p>\n<p>Windows Key<br \/>\nDown Arrow<br \/>\nEnter<\/p>\n<p>With the Quick Launch bar,\u00a0it\u00a0takes\u00a033%\u00a0fewer\u00a0key strokes.<\/p>\n<p>TSPY=1.23<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until Vista, I was never a fan of the Quick Launch toolbar.\u00a0 The small set of icons just to the right of the Start button seemed redundant.\u00a0 Since I&#8217;m a keyboard-shortcut fan, the extra &#8220;click-only&#8221; icons were just in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/08\/01\/efficiency-tip-99-windows-1-windows-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[336,338],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech","category-efficiency","tag-edtech","tag-efficiency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1416,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/1416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}