You gotta love today’s linking capabilities… Lifehacker has this little gem that was picked up and passed along, via a Dell internal blog, by our big boss/prolific blogger Andy Lark:
Instead of clicking on the Start menu and dragging your pointer through menus and submenus of programs, launch what you need without ever taking your hands off the keyboard in Vista. With a single tap of the Windows key, you’ll invoke the Start menu, and your cursor lands conveniently in the search box. Begin to enter the name of the program you need, and Vista will find it as you type. Hit Enter to launch the right choice.
May 13th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
what’s really nice about this, is that it also searches the contents of any document. so say you’re looking for the documents with the word “shoe” in it, it will bring it all up.