windows 7 - being a power user

Being a power user means tweaking the settings to your optimum usage. I used to have no problems on a desktop, but ever since getting a lappie I have come to notice that not everything is up to personal fancy. Thus, some useful tips to collect.

Ctrl+Shift+enter - runs any command in elevated administrator mode. This is especially useful for playing around with powercfg from the cmd prompt. Just Start > type cmd > ctrl shift enter and it'll start in windows/system32/ instead of users/system32 .

disable my stupid touchpad - never had a touchpad before. Until this lappie. Simply using more than 1 finger to scroll presented a problem because of the two finger gestures like zoom and browser back. To disable this, I had to go to Control Panel > Mouse > Device Settings > Settings > Advanced gestures and uncheck everything. It did teach me what was available for use if I ever find myself mouseless, but that's not really something i'd give up.