Get to the DeskTop Quickly

Have you ever felt like clearing off your desk of all the work and junk with just one swoosh of your arms?

You can do this with Windows. With one click every program you have open will minimize. They will not close, you will not lose anything but you will now only see the desktop! 

Steps:
In the bottom right-hand corner of your screen, on the taskbar, to the right of the time and date is a small rectangle space.

Move your mouse over that area. A vertical bar will appear between the date and time, and the empty area.

Click in that space and viola!! Your desktop is clean!

Desk Swipe

If only we could do that with our desks as easily.

Note: These instructions work for Windows 7, 8 and 10.


Video Source: Desk Swipe: Nick Kroll, Taraji P. Henson, Will Forte - Late Night with Seth Meyers

Shutting Down or Restarting a computer with the Keyboard: Windows 8

CTRL / ALT / Delete

The old fashion way of turning off or logging off your computer was to hold down the CTRL and ALT key together and press down on the Delete key and then let go of all three. It still works! This can be done from any screen.

The following menu appears in the middle of a purple screen.

Lock will lock the computer so that the computer can not be used until a password is entered.

Switch user will log you out and awaits for someone else to log in.

Sign out: Signs you out.

Task Manager:  The Task Manager menu appears. This allows you to close any programs which are hung.

Shutting Down or Restarting a computer with the Keyboard & Menu: Windows 8

One item that is hard to find in the new Windows 8 is how to shut down the computer!! It is not on the start button, main menu, desktop - can't be found anywhere.

From the main opening screen press Windows / X  [Hold down the Windows key and press the letter X]. This can be done from anywhere.

The following menu appears in the bottom left corner.

Select  Shut down or sign out  [bottom of the list]

The following menu appears


Select either Shut Off or Restart

Sign out will sign you out and allow someone else to login into the computer

Sleep is what a laptop does when you close the lid.

Shut Down will turn off the computer. It will close any programs that are currently open.

Restart is similar to shutting down the computer but it starts up again right after shutting down.

Shut off or Restart your computer with the mouse: Windows 8

Although there are a three ways to shut off or Restart your computer with Windows 8 it is hard to find them. One of the frequently asked questions.

1. Mouse
Move your mouse to the bottom right hand corner or the top right hand corner.
The following clear menu appears which is called the Charms bar

Move the mouse over the menu The Charms bar background goes black.

Click on the the Settings icon.

The following screen appears


The following Setting menu appears.


Click on the Power icon [bottom middle icon] as shown below

The following menu appears.





Select one of the following

Sleep

Shut Down will turn off the computer. It will close any programs that are currently open.

Restart is similar to shutting down the computer but it starts up again right after shutting down.