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KEYBOARD + MOUSE SHORTCUT TO PROPERTY PAGE

There are always so many ways to do things in Windows. Some of you, like me, may bring up the Property page of shortcuts, files, devices, Network Neighborhood, and many other things for various reasons. For example, when you look at the Property page of a shortcut icon, you can discover the location of the actual program pointed to by the shortcut. Or when you look at Properties for a file in Windows Explorer, you can modify its Hidden or Read Only attributes. When you look at the Property page for a hard drive, you can find out how much free space it has on it. Looking at the Property page for Network Neighborhood will give you access to your Network components. The most common way to get to the Property page of an item is to right click on it in My Computer or Windows Explorer and then select "Properties" from the Context Menu that scrolls up. Here is another way to do it, which uses your mouse and the keyboard. You need to hold down the Alt key and simultaneously click on the item you want the Property page for.