Windows Vista command line tips

In the below site you can find lot of command line tips that are applicable to all versions of Windows OS including Windows Vista. Click on the link to know the tips.

Command line tips on Windows vista

Keyboard shortcut for switching windows in Vista

We can use Alt-Tab to switch the windows in the old fashion i.e the way we used to do it in Windows XP. To see the windows switch in 3D use Windows - Tab key combination. Hold Windows key pressed and then keep on pressing the Tab key. You can see the windows moving to the front one by one in 3D. When you see the desired window in the front position stop pressing tab and release Windows key. This one will become your active window now.

Increase Vista performance by switching off Aero

If you are feeling that Vista is running slow on your machine, you can improve the performance significantly by switching of Aero effects. This can be done by choosing Vista basic color scheme as described below.

• Click Start
• Click Control Panel
• Select Appearance and Personalization
• Now under Personalization click on "Change the color scheme" option.
• Now in the color scheme select "Windows Vista Basic"
• Click Apply and OK

Open task manager from run window

We usually open task manager by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Delete and then selecting task manager. We can open it from Run window also by executing taskmgr.

Open control panel from run window

We usually open control panel through start menu. We can open it from Run window also by typing control panel in the run window and then pressing Enter.

Keyboard shortcuts for Mozilla Fiirefox

For people who prefer to use keyboard rather than mouse, below are some shortcuts for most common actions while using Firefox web browser.

Open new tab	Ctrl -T
Close tab	Ctrl - W
Open history	Ctrl - H
Open Downloads windows	Ctrl -J
Bookmark current opened page	Ctrl - D
Open New window	Ctrl - N
Close Window	Ctrl - W
Zoom in/Increase font size	Ctrl  +
Zoom out/decrease font size	Ctrl  -
Clear Private data(cache/form data/ search data/ History/saved passwords)	Ctrl - Shift - Delete

Windbg basic commands

Below is the list of commonly used windbg commands. You can also see the syntax of these commands.

Command	Description	Syntax
BP	Create break point	Bp function_address BP module_name!function_name
BL	List the breakpoints	Bl
BC	Cancel break point	BC breakpoint_no (Breakpoint number can be obtained by doing bl)
K	Show current call stack	k
g	Continue with execution	g
P	Execute the next statement and break in	p
T	Same as above but steps in if it is a function call	t
!analyze -v	Analyze the crash	!analyze -v
Gu	Step out of the current function	gu
R	Display the register values	r
Db	Display the value at given address as byte	Db data_address
DW	Display the value at given address as word	Dw data_address
.sympath	Set the symbols path	.sympath symbols_location
.srcpath	Set source code path	.srcpath source_code_location
.process	Change the context to the process at the given address	.process process_address
.thread	Change the context to the thread at the given address	.thread thread_address

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