I am many times surprised for how little most people (including programmers, network, it in general) know about shortcuts and tricks in Windows… but then, I am a keyboard freak and a command line freak =o)
The last tip with Ctrl-C in messageboxes also works in crash report dialogs, which may come in handy. Also many error messages in Windows Vista, though not easily recognizable as default message boxes exhibit this behaviour.
many standard windows messagebox dialogs can be copied to the clipboard
This is so useful. I provide user support and can already foresee the reduction in the number of screenshots (saved in PowerPoint files, no less) that I receive!
alt + print screen
clicks a snap of the window or dialog which currently has focus. then it can be pasted using ctrl + V to the MS paint.
printscreen captures whole screen including toolbars and taskbars.
thanks…good post!