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Create New Folder with Shortcut Key in Windows Explorer

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new folder imageIf you ask one of your friends to show how he makes a new folder, he is likely to right-click on the empty background of a folder or drive within Windows explorer and then select the “New”, “Folder” respectively from the right-click menu. To make it ready, he has to give it a name. This is the usual procedure that most people know about to create a new folder.

However, there is always a way to make things faster than usual. Creating a new folder can be done faster by utilizing the available shortcut keys within Windows explorer.

To create a new folder faster, simply press Alt+F followed by W, then hit Enter. Type the name of the new folder and hit Enter once again to make it ready for use. That’s all.



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Rotate JPEG Images Without Quality Loss Directly From Windows Explorer

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Cropping multiple images without quality loss isn’t the only problem that some photo editors are suffering from. They also fail to provide the lossless image rotation ability. If you use their rotation features, then the quality of the images will be slightly reduced. However, just like JPEGCrops, there is a free graphic tool you can use to rotate jpeg images without quality loss, called as JPEG Lossless Rotator.

JPEG Lossless Rotator does exactly like its title and like what it is designed for: to rotate jpeg images without quality loss. In other words, the quality of the rotated images will be just the same as the quality of the original images.

Simply browse the folder where your images are located and they will be added to the thumbnail list. The images within the subfolders can also be added to the list by checking the “include subfolders” option. In case you have too many images in the folder, you may want to decrease the thumbnail quality to speed up the thumbnail creation in the list. The decreased thumbnail quality doesn’t affect the original quality of the images.

JPEG Lossless Rotator

You can rotate images to the left, right, rotate 180 degrees and flip the images both horizontally and vertically. If then you decide to use its automatic rotation feature, the application will find the images that can be automatically rotated to normal orientation.

While selecting a single image is possible, I think this freeware is more suitable to be used to rotate all images at once. Using the Shift keyboard button, you can select multiple images in a row either horizontally or vertically.

The possibility to integrate the program with Windows explorer shell makes you able to rotate multiple images at once directly within Windows explorer. Nice.

One more nice thing, you can use shortcut keys to perform some of its operation like rotating, flipping, displaying exif data, and so on.

JPEG Lossless Rotator is a freeware that supports Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP 32 bit & 64 bit, Server 2003, Vista 32 bit & 64 bit, Server 2008. Get it from here.



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Instantly Switch Between Two Different Mouse Speed Settings On Laptop with Shortcut Key

Having an external USB mouse as an alternative to replace the touchpad mouse on laptop is a solution for you who find that using the touchpad is somewhat difficult or not comfortable. Still, switching between these two mouses with different settings all the time isn’t something you can do instantly. Imagine that you have to configure the different speed and sensitivity for each mouse every time you switch the mouse.

Mouse Speed Switcher is the free utility that lets you instantly switch different mouse settings with a shortcut key. As you can see from the screenshots below, the first one displays that you can quickly switch from touchpad mouse setting to the the external mouse or vice versa right from the system tray if you don’t want to remember more shortcut keys.

The second image shows the Settings window where you can specify the shortcut key to switch the different settings between two mouse. Check the “Run at system startup” box if you want to automatically launch this program when you start Windows.

Speed Mouse Switcher screenshots

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laptop vs external mouse settings image

Download Speed Mouse Switcher or go to the homepage



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