Microsoft released 16 security bulletins Tuesday to repair 49 security vulnerabilities, including six critical ones, in a record-setting patch release. Microsoft says that two of them, the Internet Explorer fix numbered MS10-071 and a Windows patch numbered MS10-076, should get top priority. Microsoft thinks attack code is likely to be developed that will target bugs fixed by both of those updates.

The security patch affects Windows, Internet Explorer, and Office. Four of the new patches, which include software updates that write over glitches, are high priority; users are advised to deploy the patches right away to protect users from potential criminal attacks on the Windows operating systems.

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A Russian company has unveiled an ambitious plan to launch a "cosmic hotel" for wealthy space tourists. Orbital Technologies says its "comfortable" four-room guest house could be in orbit by 2016, Russia's RIA Novosti news agency reports. Guests would be ferried to the hotel on a Soyuz shuttle of the type used to transport cosmonauts to the International Space Station (ISS).

Find More - http://www.livestreamsblog.com/2010/10/01/russian-firm-hopes-to-have-space-hotel-on-2016/

Origin builds custom, high-performance desktops and laptops for hardware enthusiasts, professionals, and gamers. Origin PC is keeping the practice alive with its line of high-end gaming laptops, to which it's now added a new EON17 model. This new EON17 model comes with desktop performance, with desktop processors.

The EON17 has the strength to get any job done with Intel's Core i7 processors, the speed to blow away the competition by adding up to 24GB's of DDR3 memory, and the unmatched visual performance powered by two of Nvidia's GeForce 480M graphic cards in SLI. Complete the package with a dedicated team of professionals who will stand behind your EON17 and feel safe in the knowledge that ORIGIN PC will be there when you need them.

Find more - http://www.livestreamsblog.com/2010/09/30/origin-pcs-eon-17-laptop/

Dell is getting ready to launch its second Android tablet. Dell launching 7-inch Android tablet device in next few weeks. Dell plan to introduce 10-inch tablet within 6-12 months, Dell Greater China President Amit Midha said Wednesday.  Android is confirmed as the OS on the 7-incher, but Windows will be making an appearance somewhere along the line as well. Plenty to look forward to, then.

No hard details are available yet, but livestream hope this 7-inch device is Dell's Looking Glass tablet that is powered by NVIDIA's Tegra 2 processor. Livestream originally thought Dell's 7-incher would not appear till next year when we are expecting the Honeycomb tablets, but it sounds like they will use a custom version of Android 2.2 for the device.

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The new Kobo Wireless eReader adds WiFi into the mix, enabling on-device book downloads whenever you're in range of a suitably accommodating hotspot. There's also a new processor that drives faster page turns. Just .4 inches thick and 7.8 grams, the lightweight eReader is available in three sleek color combinations: onyx, porcelain with a metallic silver back and porcelain with a pearlized lilac back.

The new Kobo Wireless eReader allows consumers to browse more than 1.5 million books in the Borders eBook store and update their digital library wirelessly, directly from the eReader device, a smartphone or the Borders Desktop Application.

Find More - http://www.livestreamsblog.com/2010/09/30/kobo-ereader/#more-1223

Driving Speed 2 is a high quality free racing game simulation for computer/PC. We just choose from four 'muscle car' and then fights racing against 11 computer controlled opponents in two car circuit.

This game has real graphics, physical performance and a real car, sound and AI (Artificial Intelligence) quality. Play with your friends via LAN or internet with 8 players/Multiplayer.

Send the fastest lap record online where our time will be seen when compared with players from all over the world.

System requirements:

* Windows 2000 / XP / Vista / Windows 7
* 1 GHz CPU or higher
* 256 MB RAM
* Hard Drive Space 228 MB
* Graphics Card with Pixel Shader Support
* DirectX 9 Drivers

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If you've SMS on SIM card, contact numbers and addresses recorded in the SIM card and everything is erased and looking for SIM card recovery data software, probably Sanmaxi Sim card data recovery can be tried.

This software will help restore all data stored on SIM cards are both SMS and phone numbers of friends, relatives, etc. that are stored with the file format *.txt. This software is compatible with all windows based operating systems, like XP, 2000, XP SP1-3, ME, Vista and Windows 7.

Find More - http://www.freewindowstips.com/2010/08/31/how-to-restore-sms-datas-and-contact-number-on-sim-card/

Youtube-dl is a command-line program to download your favorite videos in Youtube. With this program allows us to save them as *.flv files.

Here are steps to install and use youtube-dl in Linux Ubuntu 10:04:

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Microsoft is taking a step in the right mobile-searching direction with the release of their new Bing for Mobile Android application.  Bing announced on their blog that the app was, as on right now, only available for Verizon customers and could be downloaded for free from the Verizon Wireless Android Marketplace.

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Mozilla released the beta version of  Firefox 4, the upcoming build of the popular web browser for Windows, Mac OS and Linux. The Mozilla Firefox 4 has a redesigned user interface that  replaces the position of tabs to the top of the browser.

There is a  new Firefox button with all the options of the browser arranged together for easy access. Firefox 4 loads quick and open web pages fast. Other features of Mozilla Firefox 4 includes  "switch to tab", "App tab, WebM HD video support and  fix for common security vulnerabilities.

Find More - http://www.freewindowstips.com/2010/09/01/download-firefox-4-portable-usb-installer/

DivX is nowadays one of the most commonly used video formats on file sharing sites, torrents and others. DivX maintains the quality of the video ripped from DVD, VCD and Blu-day discs, even if the size of the output file is comparatively small. Moreover, a DivX video includes both video and audio streams in a single file.

Newly introduced DivX HD and original DivX files can be played using the official DivX Plus player for Windows and Mac. There is a pro version of DivX Plus player- with the ability create and convert other video formats to DivX. DivX player includes native support for DivX, AVI, XVID, MP4 and MOV video files.

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There are some most power forums are here

Dofollow forums helps increase Google Page Rank.I have already discussed in detail about advantages of dofollow blogs.Everyone likes their site to be popular with high amount of traffic.Here I have provided a list of 100 Dofollow forums. Keep in mind that you reply or ask questions related to the topic of discussion else they will consider as spam.

Find More - http://www.freewindowstips.com/2010/09/01/top-100-dofollow-forums/

Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to Web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements and games.  Flash player is available free of charge for common Web browsers, some mobile phones and a few other electronic devices.

Now a days Apple's mobile devices continue to grow and hold the largest marketshare for mobile web browsing devices. If they don't allow Flash on their devices, the largest group of mobile web browsers (Apple's iPhone, iTouch and soon iPad) will have no access to their site or services on their mobiles.   Companies that have invested in flash  (and their customers) will be affected adversely, business and revenue will be lost.

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Active X is the name for a selection of object-oriented tools and programming technologies that were developed by Microsoft for World Wide Web. With ActiveX, Web sites come alive using multimedia effects, interactive objects, and sophisticated applications that create a user experience comparable to that of high-quality CD-ROM titles.

From time to time, new versions of Active X have been released to provide support to the ever widening array of applications that are used in the home and the workplace.

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The following steps show in detail how to change your Hotmail password when you already know your current password. It is important to note that changing your Hotmail password will change your password for all of Windows Live personalized services, such as Windows Live Messenger.

1. Sign in to your Windows Live Hotmail Account from Hotmail.
2. Click on your name at the right-top of the home page of your Windows Live Page. You'll see a list Select Account.

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HTTP Error 404 is an error message means that web page you are looking for cannot be found. The 404 error is also known as "File not found".

If  HTTP 404 error will be come. what you do ?

• Make sure the URL is entered correctly
• Try the URL with a different file extension (.html, .htm, .shtml, .php)
• Try deleting the filename from the URL, to see if there is anything viewable in the directory
• Go to the main page of the site and look for a search function
• Go to Google and search for a similar page

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There is a list Favorites in Windows 7 that easy to access important items frequently. You can see this list in the Windows 7 Explorer. These favorites can be seen in the navigation pane on the left hand side. Windows 7 includes a list of items in Favorites that can be removed if you want. You can also add more folders in the Favorites list. In fact, it is very easy to manage folders in Favorites in Windows 7. You can follow these steps in order to manage folders in Favorites in Windows 7

Find More -  http://www.freewindowstips.com/2010/09/07/how-to-remove-and-restore-favorites-list-in-windows-7/

Windows 7 operating systems allow to manage users to run only specified programs. It's help you to share your computer to allow users to run only specified programs in Windows 7. You can allow the users to run only specified programs in Windows 7 by using the Local Group Policy. But, you cannot do this in the Home editions of Windows 7 as it does not provide the Local Group Policy Editor.

Click on the Start button. Type "gpedit.msc" in the search box of the Start menu and press the Enter button on the keyboard.

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Windows 7 is automatically saves all the recent search results done by the users.  If the computer is shared by others, you might not want others to see your past searches. There is a way in which you can disable search history display in Windows 7. However, you cannot disable search history display in Windows 7 Home editions because the Group Policy Editor is not available in the Home versions. Follow these steps to disable search history display in Windows 7 :

Type the "gpedit.msc" in the search box of the Start menu and Press Enter. This will open the Local Group Policy Editor.

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Office 2007 had more features and new user interface. The Microsoft Office 2007 applications such as Word and Excel can open a spreadsheet or a document which is in an older edition of Office.  They can open such older version documents in Compatibility Mode. If you want to make use of various newer features available in Office 2007, you must want to convert older Office documents to Office 2007 format. The feature to covert older Office documents to Office 2007 format is very useful.

For example, you can now utilize 1.1 million rows in the 2007 version of Excel. In the older versions you could only use sixty-five thousand rows.  The method to convert older Office documents to Office 2007 format is the same for all applications. Here you can show an example of a Word document of previous version. If you open a Word or Excel document of an older version, you see [Compatibility Mode] as part of the title.

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The Opera browser's 5.1 update for the Android, Symbian and Blackberry operating systems was made available two months ago while the Windows Phone 7 platform gets the update now.

Opera has just released the latest version of its mobile browser application for the Windows Mobile platform this shows that thought the platform is kind of left out it is slowly getting the move into the market. Most amazing thing about opera is fast and available for free download. Opera Mini 5.1 for Windows Mobile Devices is now available for download.

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Microsoft has released the beta for the newest version 9.0 of their ever-so-popular Internet Explorer browser. Version 9 has some important new things about it. For starters, there is support for HTML 5 and CSS 3, and a new JavaScript engine.

IE9 also has an "Acid Test" feature that will let you test the compatibility and compliance of a website with IE9.

Find More - http://www.freewindowstips.com/2010/09/16/internet-explorer-9-beta/

Microsoft office 2007 is wonderful product by Microsoft. Its really like by more windows users. Here is a collection Top useful add-ins for Office 2007. Add-ins are help to do your work easy and simpler. Really you can enjoy lots of new features in Ms Office.

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The Windows 7 Logon Screen Rotator is a small computer program for the Windows 7 operating system that is much easier to use. It has been designed to rotate the logon screen on every logon.

The main benefit of using this program is that it does not require the user to tamper with the Windows Registry at all. Up to ten different logon screen images can be added to the software program that get then rotated automatically.

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Microsoft updates that windows 7 store very useful. Microsoft dedicated to offer Windows 7 users free resources for the customization of the Windows 7 operating system. Microsoft has created the Windows Personalization Gallery to offer additional themes, desktop backgrounds and gadgets to Windows 7 users.

Theme management has been improved in Windows 7 which made this move possible. Windows 7 offering theme imports and exports, at least for basic themes and without system file patching.

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In windows, how to stop or disable CD drives and USB drives. Most of the viruses are coming to PC's through auto run programs. So if you stop the auto run facility on the CD rom and USB drives, your computer will be in healthy status.

The autoplay windows always pops up and asks what I want to do with the files. Here are the steps for disable the autoplay.

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Windows 7  gave Calculator a fresh look and new features, including new Programmer and Statistics modes. Unit conversion translates Celsius to Fahrenheit, ounces to grams, and joules to BTUs. Handy calculation templates can help you compute stuff like fuel economy and auto lease payments.

This default calculator goes above and beyond the brick on your desk by including unit conversions, date calculations, and a neat new set of "templates" that let you do things like figure out gas mileage, hourly wages, mortgage payments, leases, and more. Check out some of the calculator goodness in the Windows 7 Preview.

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Samsung NX100 camera is packed with very interesting new features. It is equipped with the world's first i-Function lens, a new and innovative new method of camera control. The design of the Samsung NX100 camera is just stunning for a system camera, which comes in four different colors; black, white, brown, and silver.

Samsung Galaxy S Pro has some different name on U.S carrier. For Sprint, the name is Samsung EPIC 4G. This Android phone is Sprint's second dual-mode phone. This phone is likely to be a high-end phone since it carries top hardware and software.

Working in 3G and 4G this phone also armed with 1GHZ Hummingbird processor, 512MB of RAM, 4" Super AMOLED display, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 5 megapixel camera with 720p video recording.

Read more - http://livestreamsblog.com/2010/08/30/sprint-epic-4g%E2%80%99s-first-review/

When it comes to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), when it's said that there's a lot of hard work that goes into creating it, that's an understatement. Work on the third edition went underway nearly as soon as the second edition was published, with a team of 80 lexicographers behind the wheel, way back in 1989. And, as of right now, it's only 28% complete. With that in mind, the Oxford University Press is giving some serious thought into not publishing the dictionary in a printed format.

Boxcar is a useful application for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. This application allows you to enable Twitter push notifications for free. Boxcar can be set to automatically open your Twitter application when a push notification is accessed.

If you are interested in optimization of your Apple's product, here are the steps to install and configure it.

Find more - http://livestreamsblog.com/2010/08/30/iphone-4-tips-n-tricks-iphone-push-notifications-through-twitter-application/

LG is doing some wild stuff with plasma as well at IFA this week, with its new PX950N (pictured) to supposedly be the first to nab the new 3D THX certification, and a monstrous 180-inch plasma prototype nearby to devour any other unimpressed eyeballs.

Find more details  - http://livestreamsblog.com/2010/08/30/lg-to-show-first-3d-thx-certified-plasma-at-ifa-alongside-180-inch-3d-plasma-prototype/

Windows Live Essentials beta includes free programs from Microsoft for photos, movies, instant messaging, e‑mail, blogging, and more. Windows Live Essentials beta requires Windows 7 or Windows Vista. It includes beta versions of Messenger, Photo Gallery, Mail, Movie Maker, Writer, Family Safety, and Sync, plus Bing Bar and Messenger pack.

Arguably the biggest new feature is in Windows Live Messenger. The first beta included the new social view with Facebook updates; with beta 2, this has been extended to include integration with Facebook chat. The 300 million Windows Live Messenger users can now use Messenger to chat with the 500 million Facebook users.

Find more information - http://www.freewindowstips.com/2010/08/28/windows-live-essentials-beta-2/

Firefox is grow one of the most powerful browser. Especially Firefox add-on has gained huge popularity among user, with more than hundred thousands addon available, there by making it one of the largest addon base for any web browser. Here i list some important addons for firefox users

1. Adblock Plus: Most of us get annoyed by advertisements and banners on the Internet. At many instance it sucks our bandwidth, by increasing the web page loading time. This is a perfect add-on which avoids all those flashy glossy banner and stops you from annoying about advertisements.

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How to create custom username

1. Login to your Facebook account

2. Open a new tab and type http://www.facebook.com/username

3. Click on Set a username and choose the fan page to add a custom username, if its available

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Social Bookmarking sites traffic source for bloggers. You can get a huge traffic from social bookmarking. Here are some Social book marking plugins for wordpress

1. Social Bookmarking Reloaded

The Social Bookmarking RELOADED plugin for WordPress adds a list of XHTML compliant graphic links at the end of your posts and/or pages that allow your visitors to easily submit them in a number of social bookmarking sites. Furthermore, the plugin adds a page in the WordPress admin section that lets you customize it

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Now a days Google buzz have started to dominate the micro blogging arena and every blogger wants to Add Google Buzz Button in Blogger Blogs, With this service users can now share the stuffs with each other. Google have not provided any script for adding a social bookmarking button for your blog. So if you want to Add the Google buzz Button in your Blogspot posts then follow the steps given below here.

1: Login to Your Blogger Account.

2: On Your Dashboard, Click on Layout (see below shown picture for further assistance)

3:Now Click on HTML (see below shown picture for further assistance)

4: Now Check the box of Expand Widget Templates.

5: Now you can add the Google Buzz Button either at the end of the each post or below the title of the each post.

6: If you want to add the button at the end of each post then find this code in your template.

Immediately After that Paste the code given below and Save your template and Done.

<div style='float:left;padding:2px;'><a expr:href='&quot;http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;title=&quot; + data:post.title' target='_blank' rel='nofollow' title='buzz this'><img alt='buzz this' border='0′ src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho0Ery5SCpNQ4fupxkYdBdAoIRuufwK3QI-u3sTJ5UR6ZcQ339_4fzVgTjTB6jctl-9NG3CmG6C3RkUauCRe7Ap9mGl0e2JLe5MSuaKtUvixp2nal-CqkGzJUFaEn-B-Dt2qtzcPWMysr1/s400/Google+Buzz.png'/></a></div>

7: If you want to add the button at the below the title of each post then find this code in your template.

and immediately below it, paste the following code and Save your template and Done.

<div style='float:right;padding:2px;'><a expr:href='&quot;http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;title=&quot; + data:post.title' target='_blank' rel='nofollow' title='buzz this'><img alt='buzz this' border='0′ src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho0Ery5SCpNQ4fupxkYdBdAoIRuufwK3QI-u3sTJ5UR6ZcQ339_4fzVgTjTB6jctl-9NG3CmG6C3RkUauCRe7Ap9mGl0e2JLe5MSuaKtUvixp2nal-CqkGzJUFaEn-B-Dt2qtzcPWMysr1/s400/Google+Buzz.png'/></a></div>

Here i have highlighted some points which need to taken care of for successful relationship with you and your followers, rather i should say best friends list.

1. Blog Promotions – Promoting your blog as you can. How you can get visitors without promoting your bog, so do promote the blog.
2. Provide Quality Contents – Blog content is the king maker. Useful contents will attract your visitor to comeback again and again, and then hope your visitors turn become your follower.
3. Keep Blog Up to date – you must Updating your blog on regular base. when they see there's no up date for a long time on your blog they must be leave from your blog.
4. Blogger Community – Blogger Community is a great place to get follower. You can have friends here and if they like your blog they will follow your blog. If you joined some blog communities, you can send them message just to say thanks for their visit Make your readers your friend. A friend never leave you alone, they will keep coming back to your blog.
5. Communications – Make communications with your visitors, you can visit them back, commenting back on their blog.
6. Social media – As everybody knows social media is the highest traffic sites in context of traffic. try to make followers by following them back.
7. Don't Stop – Never stops your site or blog promotion, it should be continuous process and believe me you will surely get what you want.

Google has officially revealed a new feature that allows you to call land line phones or mobile phones using Gmail Phone Call Feature. If you install the voice and video chat plug-in,  on your Gmail you can call phones in the US and Canada for free. You can also call in other countries, but you'll have to pay. Fortunately, Google's rates are really low and the service is cheaper

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You can do that and more with the Blogger Following feature! In Blogger, users can publicly Follow any URL to tell the blog's author and the world they are a fan. With the Followers gadget, you can display your blog's Followers on your blog to show your blog's popularity and encourage more readers to stay updated with your posts.

How to add the Following widget to your blog

It's really easy to add the Following widget to your blog. First go to the Layout | Page Elements tab for your blog:

Click the "Add a Gadget" link that appears in the sidebar of your layout. You'll then see a popup window with all the different types of Gadgets you can add to your blog. Look for the one called "Followers" and click on the blue "+" icon:

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Google just announced a major update to its real-time search functionality. Google already introduced real-time search results inside its regular search results pages and offered users the option to see real-time updates through an option in the search options sidebar. Today, Google has given real-time search its own home on www.google.com/realtime and added a number of new tools.On the new homepage you'll find some great tools to help you refine and understand your results. Real time Search lets you see up-to-the-second social updates, news articles and blog posts about hot topics around the world

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Extensions are a great way to add more features and functionality to the browser. these are some official extensions for google product.

http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/static.py?page=guide.cs&guide=27542

Private browsing is a feature that is present in IE, Firefox and Chrome. When you launch a private session, any images or cookies are deleted when the browser is closed. In addition, with the exception of Firefox, all add-ons are disabled when using Private Browsing.

each browser has its own name for what Private Browsing is. IE calls it In Private, Firefox calls it just plain Private Browsing and Chrome calls it Incognito. No matter what it's called, the way it works is the same.

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Program: Adobe Photoshop CS3+

Photoshop is an excellent tool to combine several photos into one seamless image. In today's tutorial we will use different tools and techniques to create an abandoned automobile in a moonlit night scene in Photoshop. Let's get started!

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Resources Used

You can download the following images from the links below. Just sign up for free to download the image.

• Car
• Mountain
• Road
• Moon

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Now a days  Microsoft released Ms Office 2010, but most of them are still using MS Office 2003.They have not even upgraded to Ms Office 2007. Ms Office 2007 default file format are .pptx .xlsx .docx files. Ms office 2003 or other earlier versions doesn't support this file format.Here I provide 3 easy solutions to open docx file format.

1. Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack
Microsoft released a tool named "Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack" ,Using this tool you can convert office 2007 files to the compactable file format for older versions.

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General keyboard-only commands
• F1: Starts Windows Help
• F10: Activates menu bar options
• SHIFT+F10: Opens a shortcut menu for the selected item (this is the same as right-clicking an object
• CTRL+ESC: Opens the Start menu (use the ARROW keys to select an item)
• CTRL+ESC or ESC: Selects the Start button (press TAB to select the taskbar, or press SHIFT+F10 for a context menu)
• ALT+DOWN ARROW: Opens a drop-down list box
• ALT+TAB: Switch to another running program (hold down the ALT key and then press the TAB key to view the task-switching window)
• SHIFT: Press and hold down the SHIFT key while you insert a CD-ROM to bypass the automatic-run feature
• ALT+SPACE: Displays the main window's System menu (from the System menu, you can restore, move, resize, minimize, maximize, or close the window)
• ALT+- (ALT+hyphen): Displays the Multiple Document Interface (MDI) child window's System menu (from the MDI child window's System menu, you can restore, move, resize, minimize, maximize, or close the child window)
• CTRL+TAB: Switch to the next child window of a Multiple Document Interface (MDI) program
• ALT+underlined letter in menu: Opens the menu
• ALT+F4: Closes the current window
• CTRL+F4: Closes the current Multiple Document Interface (MDI) window
• ALT+F6: Switch between multiple windows in the same program (for example, when the Notepad Find dialog box is displayed, ALT+F6 switches between the Find dialog box and the main Notepad window)

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