Mine is using the arrow keys to navigate typed text while writing and editing. It helps speed things up, versus having to move your hand to the mouse to navigate.

Use the Up and Down Arrows to move/jump vertically.

Left and Right Arrows to move/jump horizontally.

Combine Left or Right Arrow with Shift to be able to select text. Use Up or Down Arrow with Shift to quickly select whole/nearly whole sections of text.

Combine Control with Left/Right Arrow to jump whole words to more quickly move to where you want to type.

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    Vim takes your keyboard shortcuts to the extreme. If you can be bothered to learn it.

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    Linux Mint stand-in for Ctrl+Alt+Del on Windows, for when you can’t open system monitor:

    Get an interactive top you like > When PC freezes go to tty, open top, works like a task manager

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    Microsoft has never fixed the sticky keys replacement cheese to unlock a PC you have physical access to. Ive done it up to W10, never tested it on W11.

    1. Get a Windows recovery USB.

    2. Boot into the recovery menu and open the command prompt.

    3. Navagate to system32 and make a copy of the cmd.exe file (for a backup)

    4. Copy the sticky_keys.exe and have it overwrite cmd.exe, then reboot.

    5. On the login screen, smash the shift key until the command prompt appears and for some reason (because no user has logged in yet) it has admin permissions, so you can reset local passwords.

    6. Once your logged in as a local admin, copy the backup of cmd.exe back so noone is none the wiser (except the security software that knows you messed with something)

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      I used to use a boot CD with a password eraser. I think the last time I used it was win 7 though

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      That… Seems like a pretty massive vulnerability. Like obviously that can be locked down by each user or administrator, but still…

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        It is, we used the same just with the accessibility button in earlier Windows Versions to troll one another in school. Thing is, if encryption is enabled it won’t work.

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          Not having the disk encrypted is the same as writing the password on the frame of the screen.

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            Exactly, bitlocker or disk encryption prevents this from working and because you need some means of editing the file system outside of the user permissions, also physical access is required. At this point your are pretty much authorized to unplug the box and walk out of there with it (even if your not supposed to).

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      This seems like a lot of work to bypass a password on an unencrypted drive. You can access all the files using a bootable Linux drive.

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    (Linux)

    Add the same symbol at the beginning of most aliases. I use é

    So when I type é+tab I get all my aliases

    é+first letters of alias+tab and I’m sure autocomplete will select the alias and not another command

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    On Windows you can open up a WSL shell or PowerShell session directly to the folder path you want.

    Hold ‘Shift’ then right click anywhere inside of a directory and you will get an option to “Open PowerShell window here” as well as to “Open Linux shell here”.

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    I’ll have to upload it here when I get back into work on Tuesday, but I wrote a PDF guide for the most common Windows and Mac shortcuts that I consider to be the essentials.

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    Notepad++
    Ctrl click to place to type the same things once on those spots.
    Ctrl and alt together will allow vertical highlights so if you have to modify the middle of several lines.
    Edit menu -> line operations to sort by several pre determined methods.

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    Wait until you learn about vim keybindings. Instead of moving your hand to the arrow keys, you can stay on the homerow and movie up down left right from there.

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      I had to read the post twice, is the arrow keys the life hack? zu the fold, }} two paragraph and 3) to jump three sentences is. And we haven’t mentioned macros yet

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    Linux. Windows is used for Russian oligarchs.

    Since people are expecting windows shortcut keys, I nominate TAB navigation. Hitting tab will cycle the focus through all the buttons and edit boxes. Shift Tab to go backwards.

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    With Shift + Pos1 or End you can mark text from cursor until beginning or end of line! I use that often.

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      So ctrl shift left or right will highlight full words not just the next character. This stops when it hits a space

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    Control Backspace deletes whole words. Misspelled control? Faster to delete and retype than move my cursor around when I’m on a roll.

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      Not a computer hack, but some phone keyboards have backspace and whitespace drag, the former allowing to select a range form the cursor to delete and the latter moving the cursor. Way more usable than trying to fat finger cursor position and selection.