[benanen]

Does anyone else use Winkey, up, left, right etc. to navigate the start menu, and the first letters of folders + enter when in windows explorer?
....or am i just weird

[Equinox]

You're not.
I do this quite often, as my computer can very painfully slow at times...

Equinox

[ENKC]

In other words, does anyone here use 'hotkeys' or shortcut keys? Yes, of course we do. If you're a StarCraft fanatic you learn to do it as a matter of course.

[VOOK]

Yep, using the mouse is for chumps

[railspider]

Too lazy to use the mouse most of the time. I am slowly turning into a vegetable in front of my computer.

[popolopolous]

I don't >.> You people are weird

[benanen]

yay for weirdness then

[Akiyo]

Well I use my mouse for typing.

[benanen]

ummmm..... ok...... *twitches, phones up psychologist for urgent appointment*

[trin]

popolopolous, on Jan 24 2009, 07:22 PM, said:

I don't >.> You people are weird

OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

[Tom The Bomb]

How is it weird to use your keyboard to navigate? One computer I had back in the day I didnt have a mouse for so I used the keyboard for everything.

[popolopolous]

Akiyo, on Jan 24 2009, 05:35 PM, said:

Well I use my mouse for typing.

On-screen keyboard

Anyway, each to their own, but the normal thing to do is use a mouse to click the menus. Keyboards are for typing damnit!

[morzag]

You'd lose cred at LAN parties if you did all your navigation by dragging a cursor all over the place.

[popolopolous]

I have a dock. If that fails, I have a quickly navigated popup menu activated via right click.

I hardly have to 'drag a cursor all over the place'.

[ENKC]

popolopolous, on Jan 24 2009, 10:43 PM, said:

Anyway, each to their own, but the normal thing to do is use a mouse to click the menus. Keyboards are for typing damnit!

Once again popo, you're trying to tell us what is usual, and yet I'd say our experience of such things is significantly greater than yours. Amongst people with some level of PC knowledge (ie gamers), making frequent use of keyboard shortcuts is standard practice. Perhaps next time, don't automatically assume that something is weird or unusual just because you're not personally familiar with it.

[Obscurus]

In gaming, sure, I try to use as many keybored shortcuts as I can. Same on Photoshop
And I have a heavy use of the mouse gestures on Opera. *shrugs*

[indevelopment]

Am annoyed that my normal way of shutting down is gone in Win7.

Windows Key followed by U then enter.

I'll even launch programs from the keyboard, thanks to autocomplete on the run command (WIN + R) often I'll launch photoshop WIN+R, type ph then arrow key down and enter.

Anyone that uses a computer a lot should use shortcut keys, they're time savers.

[Equinox]

I used to do that!
That was gone in Vista too though...

Equi

[Toddich]

Obscurus, on Jan 25 2009, 10:01 AM, said:

In gaming, sure, I try to use as many keybored shortcuts as I can. Same on Photoshop
And I have a heavy use of the mouse gestures on Opera. *shrugs*

yeh mouse gestures rocks on opera, one hand on the mouse to click links and the other hand for wanking!

[Tom The Bomb]

indevelopment, on Jan 25 2009, 01:03 PM, said:

Am annoyed that my normal way of shutting down is gone in Win7.

Windows Key followed by U then enter.

I'll even launch programs from the keyboard, thanks to autocomplete on the run command (WIN + R) often I'll launch photoshop WIN+R, type ph then arrow key down and enter.

Anyone that uses a computer a lot should use shortcut keys, they're time savers.

I never used to do that, I slightly remember Windows Key + S for shut down? Cos I used to do it all the time back in win 95/98.

I only ever lock my computer anyway, thats windows+L

[PlasmaDavid]

Pfft, real men suddenly decide to go do something else, and hammer Alt + F4 for a few seconds until the PC dies.

[PlasmaDavid]

ENKC, on Jan 25 2009, 10:11 AM, said:

Once again popo, you're trying to tell us what is usual, and yet I'd say our experience of such things is significantly greater than yours. Amongst people with some level of PC knowledge (ie gamers), making frequent use of keyboard shortcuts is standard practice. Perhaps next time, don't automatically assume that something is weird or unusual just because you're not personally familiar with it.

Nope I'm pretty sure that out of everyone who uses PCs in the world, the average is people using the mosue to navigate menus. He wasn't talking about shortcuts EN, he meant the actual getting around fold-out branch menus.

[PlasmaDavid]

Also I'm pretty sure I might as well triple post whilst I'm at it : \

[Tom The Bomb]

PlasmaDavid, on Jan 25 2009, 04:15 PM, said:

Nope I'm pretty sure that out of everyone who uses PCs in the world, the average is people using the mosue to navigate menus. He wasn't talking about shortcuts EN, he meant the actual getting around fold-out branch menus.

As in pushing Alt once then using the arrorw keys to navigate?

[/\nthony]

Cant live without it! Everything from shutting down, choosing music and swapping displays and resolution.

indevelopment, I use Windows->U->U (instead of enter). Does something similar to that work in Windows 7?