I've come across a couple of nifty shortcuts and ways to make stuff easier and quicker that I thought I'd share.

File Dialog - The file dialog, the one you get when you do a file->save as or download something from IE (or Firefox :-) ) has a list of locations on the left. Usually its not that helpful, like my recent documents or my network places, but you can customize this list. There's 2 dialogs and each is modified differently. For the main one, you have to download the windows xp powertoy, tweakui. Open it, expand the common dialogs and select the places bar and customize the 5 locations. The other dialog is used in office 2003. Open the dialog, right click the places bar and switch to small icons if you want. To add a folder to it, navigate to that folder, then click the tools menu and select 'add to my places'. Then you can right click it in the places bar and move it up or down in the list.



Windows Key + E open my computer, but you can create shortcuts somewhere, desktop, quicklaunch, etc and assign keyboard shortcuts to it.



Then there's the combo keys:



Ctrl + Shift + Esc = windows task mgr

WinKey + D = show desktop

WinKey + M = minimize all

WinKey + L = lock workstation

WinKey + R = open run dialog

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