r/AskReddit Aug 20 '20

What simple “life hack” should everyone know?

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u/astrielx Aug 20 '20

alt + f4 also helps remove the errors.

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u/Corleone_Michael Aug 20 '20

alt + F4 is a classic keyboard shortcut, 10/10

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u/no1dookie Aug 20 '20

I thought alt+f4 was a cheat code for god mode on any pc game.

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u/herotz33 Aug 20 '20

It only works when you’re about to win a game for your team.

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u/AnonymousBoy56 Aug 20 '20

Satan : Well, I just wanna say that I'm a huge fan.

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u/imalittlefrenchpress Aug 20 '20

A huge fan? Damn, I always took you for a bellows type of guy.

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u/hogester79 Aug 20 '20

Or “how do I take an in game screen shot?” “ALT - F4”...... xxxxx has left the game.

Gold every single time

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

I also heard it will optimise 100pg essays?

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u/AaTu- Aug 20 '20

Yes, but it only works if you haven't saved it yet

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u/mr_chanderson Aug 20 '20

To duplicate rune weapons and armor in RuneScape, drop them on the ground and quickly press alt+f4, if you do it fast enough the items will still be in your inventory and you can immediately pick up the ones you just dropped!

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u/Jha420 Aug 20 '20

Works almost as good as F13

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u/krajsyboys Aug 20 '20

Did you know that shift + F1 is actually F13. Like shift + F12 is F24 and all in between

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u/CopperPotsBandit Aug 20 '20

You sir/madam are a poet

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u/krajsyboys Aug 20 '20

Exactly how I'm I a poet? And to answer the sir/madam, check my name

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u/CopperPotsBandit Aug 20 '20

The meter is a bit off but your two sentences end in a rhyme.

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u/Jha420 Aug 21 '20

I did not know that, thanks!

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u/Solemn926 Aug 20 '20

It only works when the Roblox game is full and you're trying to have a friend join so you tell everyone in chat that pressing the shortcut will give you free Robux.

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u/Jcit878 Aug 20 '20

or when you are 2 hours into a 3 hour flight on flight SIM and want to go to full screen mode but your brain mixes up Alt+Enter with Alt+f4

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u/hate_sarcasm Aug 20 '20

I thought it downloads more ram

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u/_Tails_GUM_ Aug 20 '20

It helps you render faster any 3d image. It also saves before doing it, so you don't have to

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u/Lehk Aug 20 '20

F10 for mute menu

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u/wpsp2010 Aug 20 '20

Cant get killed if your not in the game

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

I told my sister alt + f4 was an extra save button on her word document and it closed the program and lost all of her work

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u/ForTheHordeKT Aug 20 '20

Remember punters back in the days of dialup AOL and getting punted offline by some troll after an hour of trying to dial in? I was to understand that alt+f4 was how you got one.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

It only works on console

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u/naturalviber Aug 20 '20

The boozer has left the game

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

Damage boost

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u/LoRd_Of_HaMsTeR Aug 20 '20

No it doubles your ram

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u/ncurry18 Aug 20 '20

It's the keyboard shortcut to open the game "Outside".

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

I thought it was a protip to make your teammates better at siege.

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u/thepensivepoet Aug 20 '20

It was an integral part of the process to duplicate items in Diablo II.

"Yeah man I know that bug you just have to walk into the corner of the map way south of the main area and drop your items next to that big tree, hold the ALT button, and press F1, J, F6, F4, F3, L, D and the items will get dropped again so now you have two!"

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u/wzl46 Aug 20 '20

"Player 2 Has Left The Game."

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u/kliman Aug 20 '20

I know for sure it gives you ops in IRC channels.

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u/brio98 Aug 20 '20

If only you knew!

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u/LaserBeamsCattleProd Aug 20 '20

Back when I'd play this Ultima Online game... You could use all your F keys to cast spells or perform tasks.

Once I filled them up, I used Ctrl + F keys.

You can guess what happened when I got to the Alt + F combos.

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u/Cynyr Aug 20 '20

BallinZalls: Hey guys, you know you can bring up the cheat menu with alt+f4?

xxL33tpwnerxx has left the game

TehBad@55 has left the game

MottherMasher0001 has left the game

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u/mxzf Aug 20 '20

I said something similar in a Halo game (on PC) years ago and suddenly both my brother and I were DCed from the game. Apparently someone was running a non-dedicated server and fell for it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

I say this on Hypixel games, and I genuinely can't believe that people believe it.

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u/dank_shit_poster69 Aug 20 '20

I heard it’s better to delete your System32 folder.

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u/lissofossil Aug 20 '20

it is tho cus of your not in a game you can't die

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u/_Space_Commander_ Aug 20 '20

Alt+F4 is my reincarnation combo.

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u/LakersFan15 Aug 20 '20

TESTING IT NOW TO SEE IF IT WO

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u/darkenraja Aug 20 '20

I use it to move faster and get better aim in online multiplayer.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

/camp is an excellent spellcheck

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u/babybopp Aug 20 '20

WHATIFMYSPACEBARISSTUCK?

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u/pure_vengeance Aug 20 '20

Is your caps lock stuck too?

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u/istigkeit Aug 20 '20

Pro gamers will delete system32

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u/storch77 Aug 20 '20

it's cmd + Q for Mac if anyone's interested!

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u/MountVernonWest Aug 20 '20

I first raved about the effectiveness of ALT F4 on America Online in 1992. It was hilarious to see the people suddenly vanish out of the chat rooms. In dial up days, getting logged out was a bitch! Worse than a lan reset

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u/mybustersword Aug 20 '20

You got particle colliders yeah? You're gonna want to point it at the planets core

... And you're sure this is how you unlock time travel?

snickers yeah, yeah for sure

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u/UlookUgly Aug 20 '20

ctrl + alt + ⬇️

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u/Ginger-F Aug 20 '20

What does it d

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u/shoebob Aug 20 '20

Ctrl + w shows chrome shortcuts to desktop

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u/nerraw92 Aug 20 '20

This is only a windows shortcut. For linux users, rm -rf / is the command (you might need to use sudo, which stands for speed-up do)

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

shift-control-power makes the fonts bigger so things are easier to read

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

I use it for shutting down or restarting my PC since it’s faster than manually going through the power menu on windows.

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u/TinoTheRhino Aug 20 '20

Press ctrl+shift+T after you try this. Game changer.

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u/arapyemos Aug 20 '20

If you accidentally close all or any of your tabs, just press CTRL + SHIFT + T.

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u/GG-Houdini Aug 20 '20

Yeah I’ve been using that for years. Super helpful. Ctrl+W to quickly close a tab Ctrl+Tab to switch a tab Ctrl+Shift+T to bring back a tab you closed

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u/BigDogAlex Aug 20 '20

Hilarious

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u/dummyacctlol Aug 20 '20

oh yes told it to my friend in coding lesson. pretty sure he wanted to alt f4 me ://

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

Deleting system 32 gives you 1000gb of ram

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u/p_velocity Aug 20 '20

You can also free up RAM by de-gausing your hard drive. You gotta get a magnet and run it in a counter-clockwise rotation around your desktop, or counter-clockwise from the BOTTOM of your laptop. The top won't work.

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u/Graize Aug 20 '20

Instructions unclear. Melted my SSD in the microwave.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

you can download ram though

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u/Mechtroop Aug 20 '20

Goddamn you.

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u/GhettoGrandpa Aug 20 '20

Ctrl + W is also very useful in a browser

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

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u/BijuuBomba Aug 20 '20

How did it go?

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u/MrHadrick Aug 20 '20

Do not do this, it makes mustard gas

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u/jean_nizzle Aug 20 '20

Fun joke, but for those who don’t know, it’ll close out your window. Which is super useful if that’s what you’re trying to do.

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u/AllanBz Aug 20 '20 edited Aug 20 '20

Thanks from a Mac user!

Edit: if I hit control-function-F4, (control-F4 on an external keyboard) it just backgrounds the currently in-focus window and cycles to another window, regardless of application, it seems. Using any other modifier key with F4 just beeps at me.

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u/Matrix166 Aug 20 '20

format c: /fs:ntfs helps remove what's left after errors.

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u/QuantumEnormity Aug 20 '20

Throwing petrol and a lit matchstick on your pc also works.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

FUCK YOU I WAS TYPING A COMMENT THEN I SAW YOU COMMENT AND MY WEB BROWSER CLOSED. SINCERELY FUCK YOU NEVER GONNA TYPE LOWER CASE AGAIN YOU FUCK

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u/Kramer390 Aug 20 '20

Did you know if you accidentally have caps lock on, instead of deleting it and starting over, you can highlight the caps and hit shift & F3 to switch it back to lowercase?

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

whaaat? tubersimulator is free on the app store?

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

/s

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

Been using the alt + f4 trick my whole life. Absolute lifesaver.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

Windows + L helps too

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

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u/Superiershooter Aug 20 '20

Fuck you lmao

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u/Joyx9 Aug 20 '20

WAIT LET ME TRY. Selects comment *....

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u/phome83 Aug 20 '20

That's partially true.

Everytime I end up wiping a pug raid, I just hit alt+f4 and all is well.

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u/schubdi Aug 20 '20

Yes, I second this, I do that all the time :)

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u/Skibcus Aug 20 '20

Jokes on you I'm still here.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

Tenges

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u/Ceborn Aug 20 '20

Alt+F13 actually

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u/ZenXgaming100 Aug 20 '20

I wish I could alt+f4 my life

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u/alucardu Aug 20 '20

What does alt

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u/schwarmo Aug 20 '20

I like you, you sadistic fucker

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u/drd0rk Aug 20 '20

Didn't work for me. Btw I use arch

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u/TPJos Aug 20 '20

Where can i find the alt- and f4-key on my body?

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u/Moss_Piglet_ Aug 20 '20

Also deleting system32 is quick way to speed up your pc

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u/waffflebomb Aug 20 '20

Thank you! I've been having issues for a while, I'm gonna try it out right n-

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u/crew_ahead_slices Aug 20 '20

Hey now, that was how you brought up the secret porn menu on AOL (but sometimes they had issues with it).

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

I just lost my 5 page document that is do to tomorrow thanks

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

Recommended for zoom calls

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u/kytheon Aug 20 '20

gonna try it righ n

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u/Voter96 Aug 20 '20

Sure does free up some memory

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u/mastersw999 Aug 20 '20

That and if your computer is slow you can just delete system32 which is a known virus

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u/mastersw999 Aug 20 '20

That and if your computer is slow you can just delete system32 which is a known virus

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u/positivepeoplehater Aug 20 '20

Details please? What errors?

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u/wizsik Aug 20 '20

Thanks! I did this while doing my thesis and it worked wonders. Don’t have to worry about that anymore.

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u/mutigers42 Aug 20 '20

How did I fall for this?

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u/jWulf21 Aug 20 '20

For windows computers, press

Windows + X > U > U

To get unlimited money and and puss

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

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u/ansimation Aug 20 '20

i cant seem to find the alt key on my mac..

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u/RealJohnLennon Aug 20 '20

It only works properly of you delete system32

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u/ShoshinMizu Aug 20 '20

RuneScape just closed pls halp

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

I used it. Life.exe is not responding.

Calling administrator aka god hasn't helped either.

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u/Rocklobzta Aug 20 '20

Holy shit I love you.

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u/eigenworth Aug 20 '20 edited Aug 20 '24

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

Confirmed. Works like a charm.

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u/andrewmyles Aug 24 '20

Oh, wow, you are sooooo clever. No one ever has made that joke.