Lesser known perhaps in Windows - go to the folder containing your start menu, find the shortcut for your screen reader. Open up its properties, and find the part for a shortcut key. I recommend you type in control+alt+the first letter of your reader's name, so I have control alt J for Jaws.

Now if things go wonky, and believe me they do, you can reload your reader with the shortcut. You can also use it to open your reader if you have to close it so others can use your computer without it interfering, or for some games, etc.

Now if you have NVDA installed too it has a default shortcut of control alt N... thus if things go really wonky you can launch NVDA to deal with any error boxes and ensure your reader is fully closed down, then relaunch it.

Also under power in your Windows control panel find the place where you can define what your computer's buttons do. If you set the power button to "shutdown" it also provides a convenient way of safely turning off your computer, and another backup function since you can safely shutdown your computer in some situations where you otherwise can't control the computer.

Hope these qualify, they certainly make my life a lot easier.

wow this is cool. cx2, cj, you both rock.
now my turn. ok, this one requires winamp. these are quite well known. following is really cool though:
go to file. select open folder. open up a massive folder, i don't know, something with everything in there. exes, sounds, subfolders, everything. i opened up a huge  folder. it took ages to load, but it was well worth it. it had 28000 sound files. 28! thousand! it was such a blast and took me a day or 2 to look through, but it was such a blast.
now open up a long file of about an hour or more. while the file's playing, press ctrl + j. then you can see the file length and what current position you are in, and type in a new one. for example, if the file's 1 hour and 10 minutes and you want to go to about 40 minutes, you would enter 40:00. this is really cool.
now for games. i discovered these eggs while i was looking through that huge folder i mentioned. in esp pinball classic, i think, just leave it at the main menu. eventually, you should hopefully hear some sound files play. i don't know when though.
also in ten pin alley, when bowlin ball says something like, press the space bar to pick up the ball, just wait. he eventually starts talking about the key, but that's all i will say. don't do anything still. keep waiting. he will hopefully start talking about something to do with a... a... oh no. i don't want to spoil it.

my turn
type oops at the pinball extreem main menu to here a clip of something
you'll here a bleep after you type any correct letter at the main menu
and a correction about esppinball clasic you'll here the sounds when it says launch ball
one thing you'll here is snoring

LOL. I will have to try the last two for shure. I think I will try everyone that I don't know the result of just to see what happons.

you were right on your first guess.

Ok. Watch this. If you position your cursor after a word in a word doc or something, and press ctrl backspace. The word gets deleted. How cool is that!

oh I have to try that now!
Plus how did I rock if I didn't post any hints?
Just wondering I mean its cool if you think I rock, but yeah.

Hi, In Tetris you must arange the falling pieces so they fit together or something. In playtime, the outer left thumkey moves the piece left, the outer right key moves it right, and the inner thumbkeys move around the board. On the third and second cell it has what line of the board your on. The number on the right of the display is the speed. Press the outer and inner left thumbkeys to drop the current piece if you think it will to pause the game, press enter.

That's about all I know, hopefully someone else has more info.

I didn't know about this one for a while.

Don't you hate it when you arrow down in a webform combobox only to jump to that selection? "Wait... I didn't get to make a choice," you shout in desperation.

Peace, my child, for I have come to enlighten thee.

Use alt+down to "open" the combobox, make your choice, and use alt+up or enter to execute it. No more "non-blind'friendly" dropdown menus.

I'm sure I have some other ones kicking around here.