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If you already know these, you’re good!

Right click your mouse on any selected text - including e-mail or www addresses, and the menu shows cut, copy and paste. Copy the text, and then set your cursor in any windows application wherever you want it, and right click again - paste will drop it right there. (use cut first if you want to delete the original text, too.)
To make multiple selections easier in Explorer (or any list), hold down the shift key after the first selection and touch the last. All in between will be highlighted. Use the Control key the same way to select non-contiguous selections.
Right click the start button to quickly get Explorer, or Find files.
If system is locked after lunch...try control panel, power management, and tell monitor and hard disk to sleep “never”.

First, in Internet Explorer go to Tools and then Internet Options. Under the Temporary Internet Settings section click Settings. Notice tons of megabytes are usually allocated. Set it down between 10 to 40MB, as much as most people ever really need. (Also set when to update pages in the section above only update to when you visit the page to avoid unneeded searching). Click OK and you're done.
Next, find your recycle bin, and Right-Click on the icon. Then left click properties of the resulting menu. Set the slider to 1% of the disk instead of the default 10%. Unless you're a horrible klutz, this is plenty of space for those files you accidentally delete.