by Shane Grantham | Nov 27, 2025
Previously I wrote about my Chrome computer’s keyboard problem. The volume buttons don’t work as they once did. The other keys work fine and tonight I started looking at the Chrome OS settings. I opened the Bluetooth settings under the taskbar and...
by Shane Grantham | Oct 8, 2023
Like many of you I use computers often and sometimes have many programs and web browsers open. Many years ago I discovered a shortcut for closing programs. I probably read it in a computer magazine. It’s a keyboard sequence of two keys: Alt and F4. You hold...
by Shane Grantham | May 26, 2023
One of the keyboard shortcuts I’ve use since the 1990s for GUI interfaces is still applicable to 2023. It works for any Microsoft windows flavor and it works in most Linux distributions. It’s the ALT-F4 combo. Hold the ALT key down while pressing the F4...
by Shane Grantham | Apr 11, 2022
I have a computer client who is a retired business teacher who taught typing and keyboarding in high school. We talk about school stuff when I’m at his location on a service call. He knows I had typing in school and this is a course I use every day as a...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 17, 2022
It’s funny how many IT things I forget over time. One of these categories is keyboard shortcuts and the one I have in mind is the End key. It can save you time if you need to get to the bottom of a word processor document or a web page or many other...
by Shane Grantham | Aug 15, 2021
There are many ways to save time using a computer and the keyboard is where we start today. Most of us use an external mouse or laptop trackpad to open documents, start programs and close programs. I do the same, but I also use the keyboard to do some tasks that the...
