I just moved to windows from MacOS - don't know many neat tricks yet.
Ask HN: What feature did you find after years of using Windows?
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Re: Ask HN: What feature did you find after years of using Windows?
#2Recently discovered the Snipping Tool (start menu) - crop a screenshot rectangle, annotate with pen / highlighter, and save as JPG/PNG. Handy.
Re: Ask HN: What feature did you find after years of using Windows?
#3Recently discovered the Snipping Tool (start menu) - crop a screenshot rectangle, annotate with pen / highlighter, and save as JPG/PNG. Handy.
I discovered that one too: win + shift + s
The only frustrating thing is that with that hotkey it just copies it to the clipboard (usefult often) but sometimes I want to do what you mentioned (save it). For that I don't know a hotkey...
Re: Ask HN: What feature did you find after years of using Windows?
#4Recently discovered the Snipping Tool (start menu) - crop a screenshot rectangle, annotate with pen / highlighter, and save as JPG/PNG. Handy.
There's also a "quicker version".
Win+Shift+S, select an area to grab and the result is copied into your clipboard from which you can directly paste it into most apps that support inserting images (Slack, Signal, MSOffice, Skype...) or even image upload forms on the internet...
Re: Ask HN: What feature did you find after years of using Windows?
#5A couple of good surprises coming from MacOs:
- The window snapping shortcuts win + left or win + right are great. - Alt-tab rolls through all open windows, not open programs (avoids the tab + ` in mac) - Win + e to open explorer that one comes in handy often
Re: Ask HN: What feature did you find after years of using Windows?
#6F2 to rename things
Re: Ask HN: What feature did you find after years of using Windows?
#7Recently discovered the Snipping Tool (start menu) - crop a screenshot rectangle, annotate with pen / highlighter, and save as JPG/PNG. Handy.
You can also make the snipping tool launch whenever you press print screen. Look in the keyboard settings for the toggle to turn that on.
Re: Ask HN: What feature did you find after years of using Windows?
#8F2 to rename things
ooo that's a good one :)
Re: Ask HN: What feature did you find after years of using Windows?
#9I can't recall when I found it about it, and OSX already has it - one of Windows' neatest tricks is being able to do some regular file operations in the standard open/save dialogs. It saved me countless clicks over the years at $WORK.
Was Windows the first to allow this, or was there some antecedent? There are 'modern' Linux GUI toolkits which still do not allow this, like GTK's GtkFileChooser which apparently lives in the dark ages (no thumbnail support there either).
Re: Ask HN: What feature did you find after years of using Windows?
#10I can't recall when I found it about it, and OSX already has it - one of Windows' neatest tricks is being able to do some regular file operations in the standard open/save dialogs. It saved me countless clicks over the years at $WORK. Was Windows the first to allow this, or was there some antecedent? There are 'modern' Linux GUI toolkits which still do not allow this, like GTK's GtkFileChooser which apparently lives…
To be clear is this feature being able to move or rename files from the save/open dialog?