Keyboard Shortcuts in Windows 7

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Keyboard shortcuts can be huge time savers, so I’ve been pleased to see the many additional shortcuts and mouse movements supported with Windows 7.

This is a quick blog post on a couple favorites of mine.

When you have a program already opened on the taskbar and you want to open a new instance of that program rather than displaying the already opened instance, Shift-Click. This will start a new instance. I use it all the time for applications like Chrome and Notepad.
Use the Windows key plus a number to open a program. For example, I have Chrome as my 2nd icon so Win-2 will always open Chrome.
If you want to open a new instance using your keyboard use Shift-Win-2.
Be sure to pin your favorite icons to the Task Bar, and your secondary icons to the top of the Start menu.

Here are some links to more good shortcuts:

http://windows7news.com/2009/03/22/master-list-of-windows-7-keyboard-shortcuts/

http://lifehacker.com/5132073/the-best-new-windows-7-keyboard-shortcuts (includes video)

2 Comments

Nice job. For people who are new at windows, this will surely help. But a few shortcuts (like wnd+d) are also available in XP. As for specific Wnidows 7 shortcuts, you need to use it first to understand the features of it.

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