Favorite Windows Keyboard Shortcuts

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Published Thursday, June 15, 2006 1:32 AM by RoyOsherove
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Wednesday, June 14, 2006 7:44 PM by Jason Haley

# Interesting Finds: June 14, 2006 PM edition

Thursday, June 15, 2006 1:51 AM by AvnerK

# re: Favorite Windows Keyboard Shortcuts

Some of my favorites:

Shift-F10: pops up the context menu even on keyboards without the Win keys. Like my precious, precious keyboard.

Ctrl-+ : When viewing a listview in Details mode, this will auto-resize all columns. Not only convenient, I don't think there's any other way to do this.

Ctrl-T / Ctrl-Shift-T : These are my favorite Visual Studio shortcuts, and do nothing constructive whatsoever:
http://weblogs.asp.net/avnerk/archive/2005/08/22/423287.aspx
Thursday, June 15, 2006 10:36 AM by Tomer Gabel

# re: Favorite Windows Keyboard Shortcuts

Oops, you mean "Notification Area." :-)
Thursday, June 15, 2006 10:58 AM by firoz.ansari

# re: Favorite Windows Keyboard Shortcuts

"Shift-F10: pops up the context menu even on keyboards without the Win keys. Like my precious, precious keyboard. "

You can also use popup menu key (between right Window and Ctrl key) for same purpose.
Thursday, June 15, 2006 11:34 AM by dylan

# re: Favorite Windows Keyboard Shortcuts

I prefer windows-d to windows-m because that just toggles the desktop instead of minimizes all windows.  That means you can hit windows-d once, grab something from the desktop, and hit windows-d again to go back to the program you were just using.

I've also found myself using windows-r for 'Run' a lot. I find it the fastest way to browse to a folder on the hard drive, and you can also access a lot of programs from there:
http://www.fixmyxp.com/content/view/20/42/

windows-e is nice to get to 'My Computer' as well.

I also use crl-l for jumping to address bar in firefox and ctrl-k for jumping to search box in firefox a lot.
Friday, June 16, 2006 5:23 AM by Grendizer

# re: Favorite Windows Keyboard Shortcuts

to complete the given list :

WinKey + Pause : display the system properties panel.
WinKey + D : Show Desktop [ WinKey + M do minimize/maximize all not exactly show desktop :p ]
WinKey + F : Search
WinKey + U : Utility Manager [not very useful indeed]
Ctrl + Esc : displays the starting menu

if think the most useful are the Ctrl + Shift + Esc [already provided that displays the Task Manager], and the WinKey + E [that opens a new windows explorer].

if you have multiple language settings installed, you can simply switch by using Left Alt + *** ...

a tricky one .. to do the Alt + Tab without your keyboard : keep the left or right mouse button pushed and click to your middle mouse button.
Saturday, June 17, 2006 3:03 AM by AvnerK

# re: Favorite Windows Keyboard Shortcuts

I think my favorite part of the Ctrl-Shift-Esc combination is that on a properly sturdy keyboard, like my aforementioned ancient IBM, I can access the task manager with a well-aimed karate chop to the left edge of the keyboard.
Monday, June 19, 2006 11:31 AM by Avi

# re: Favorite Windows Keyboard Shortcuts

Oh my god, This is 2006! These shortcuts have been around for ages now.. come on!

Here's something from 2002:
http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.php?t=38299

:)
Monday, September 11, 2006 4:46 PM by Anil

# re: Favorite Windows Keyboard Shortcuts

Win key+L ..lock the system