{"id":43,"date":"2014-10-28T12:37:24","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T12:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/honalj.com\/?p=43"},"modified":"2014-10-28T12:37:24","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T12:37:24","slug":"useful-shortcuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/honalj.com\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"Useful Shortcuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Background<\/h1>\n<p>Windows 8 has presented some challenges. For example the basic task of shutting down the computer. Back in windows 7 it was win+right arrow+enter. Now we are confronted with the metro\u00a0UI, and we have to win, tab, tab, right, enter, down, enter our way to the shutdown command.<\/p>\n<h1>Solution<\/h1>\n<p>A very useful secret menu can be accessed via pressing WIN+X<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_44\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44\" style=\"width: 272px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/honalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/win_x.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-44\" src=\"http:\/\/honalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/win_x.png\" alt=\"keyboard crop highlighting windows and x\" width=\"272\" height=\"123\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">a secret start menu, with all the important stuff.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Then pressing U 2 times shuts down the system.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_45\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45\" style=\"width: 418px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/honalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/secret_start_menu.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45\" src=\"http:\/\/honalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/secret_start_menu.png\" alt=\"screenshot of windows + X menu\" width=\"418\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"http:\/\/honalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/secret_start_menu.png 418w, http:\/\/honalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/secret_start_menu-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/honalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/secret_start_menu-300x297.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">so much important stuff! Why did they hide it from us so much?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>Afterthoughts<\/h1>\n<p>Don&#8217;t let me see you hovering with the mouse hunting for the small labels! All commands have a letter underlined, press those letters on the keyboard to execute them. And please don&#8217;t use this method to access\u00a0the following things, because there are clearly faster ways to do so:<\/p>\n<p>Show desktop Win+D<br \/>\nRun Win+R<br \/>\nSearch Win+Q<br \/>\nFile Explorer Win+E<br \/>\nTask manager Ctrl+Shift+Esc<\/p>\n<p>The search for perfection makes us what we are. Never stop questioning the inefficient ways, because there might be a solution already in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background Windows 8 has presented some challenges. For example the basic task of shutting down the computer. Back in windows 7 it was win+right arrow+enter. Now we are confronted with the metro\u00a0UI, and we have to win, tab, tab, right, enter, down, enter our way to the shutdown command. Solution A very useful secret menu &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/honalj.com\/?p=43\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Useful Shortcuts<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/honalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/honalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/honalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/honalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/honalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/honalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"http:\/\/honalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/honalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/honalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/honalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}