Comments on: Ten Windows Keyboard Shortcuts I cannot live without

By: Increase Your Productivity With Text Shortcuts - Amidst a tangled web

Increase Your Productivity With Text Shortcuts - Amidst a tangled web — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:06:38 +0000

[...] personal favorites are WindowsKey-E to open an explorer window and WindowsKey-L to lock the screen. GHacks has some more. Potentially related [...]

By: ravi

ravi — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:32:10 +0000

best … thanks everyone
nice discussion

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Best of Tech Blogs: May 2008 — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:01:59 +0000

[...] Ten Windows Keyboard Shortcuts I cannot live without – GHacks [...]

By: HanaDaddy

HanaDaddy — Wed, 28 May 2008 03:45:27 +0000

How about
Win+D : Show desktop
Win+L : Lock the computer if you have password set.

If you have to leave your seat right away at work, you can use Win + L

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 28 May 2008 03:23:58 +0000

alt-space brings up a window control, especially good when no mouse is present/working

vista windows explorer
alt-UpArrow to go up one directory since
alt-backspace goes back to the previous directory instead of up one in the heirarchy

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 26 May 2008 18:28:16 +0000

CTRL+SHIFT+ESC: Open Task Manager

By: JLW

JLW — Mon, 26 May 2008 12:31:27 +0000

Ctrl+X to Cut
Ctrl+F to Find
Ctrl+H to Find and Replace
F6 to Go to the browser Address Bar

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Mon, 26 May 2008 06:55:50 +0000

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By: mule

mule — Mon, 26 May 2008 02:42:34 +0000

that’s a lower case “L” to lock workstation

By: hidemm

hidemm — Sun, 25 May 2008 23:19:05 +0000

backspace —— go back to previous window
ctrl + z —– undo as i often screw up
ctrl+alt+del —- everyone knows that. process manager

thats my top 3 despite your pick

By: rhiannon

rhiannon — Sun, 25 May 2008 17:18:32 +0000

This tip works in Firefox and IE.

Type the name only of a .com or .net domain – clicking Ctrl+Enter adds .com to the name and takes you to the URL.
Shift+Enter adds .net to the name and takes you to the URL.

Example: if you type ghacks into the browser address bar and hit Shift+Enter you will go directly to the ghacks website.

By: Maxim

Maxim — Sun, 25 May 2008 16:24:24 +0000

To open in a new window, hold CTRL and doubleclick.

By: Angelo R.

Angelo R. — Sun, 25 May 2008 15:20:51 +0000

@francois Actually, a shortcut for creating new folders is something that Microsoft has never implemented in any of their versions of Windows. The only option would be to download a third party hotkey creator (IE autoHotKey or the like) and create it through there.

By: francois

francois — Sun, 25 May 2008 14:32:12 +0000

I like the fact that in the windows explorer I can easily navigate without the mouse (typing the beginning of a folder file/folder, tab, alt+arrows, etc).

When I’ve selected a folder I’d like to open it in a *new* window. Anyone now a shortcut for that?
For now I’ve found shift + F10 + select Open + Return but this is long (I could change shift + F10 by the menu key if present on the keyboard). I thought something like shift +enter, ctrl + enter or something similar would do it but so far no luck… :(

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 25 May 2008 11:30:11 +0000

you are right, corrected it.

zzzZZZzzz files that are moved in the trashbin take up space in Windows while files that are deleted immediately do not. They still can be recovered if they have been deleted unintentionally.

By: Rarst

Rarst — Sun, 25 May 2008 11:28:45 +0000

>CTRL P: Opens the Print Screen dialog.

I don’t remember WinXP (and earlier) even having print screen dialog… Vista specific? :)

>Why someone would like to use Shift+Del instead of Del? Why not using the windows trash?

Because windows trash starts moving files around instead of actualy deelting them which could be extremely slow.

Also Win+D and Win+M are similar but act differently. Win+D is “show desktop” – it kinda hides windows without messing with them and shows them back on next Win+D. Win+M is “minimize all” it minimizes all windows and you restore them back with pressing Shift+Win+M.

>Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V
Less known copypaste shortcuts are Ctrl+Ins, Shift+Ins. They are often important when someone blocks Ctrl+C/V from working in web page or some app. :)

Alt+Space – Move/Resize/etc menu for current window. Rarely used but allows window manipulation without mouse.

Not consistent in all apps, but still worth knowing
Ctrl-W – close current tab
Ctrl-F4 – close current document
Alt-F4 – close current application

Alt-Tab – best stuff with this command is that when you switch then application you switched from becomes next to switch to. This allows for very fast switching betweeb two apps back and forth (even better version of such switch “Recall application” is avaible in logitech mice, I use it alot).

By: Gemini

Gemini — Sun, 25 May 2008 11:24:53 +0000

“Instead of doing the plain old Copy C, Copy V to copy and paste…”

I suppose you mean Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V ? ;)

By: Emmanuel

Emmanuel — Sun, 25 May 2008 10:34:56 +0000

I would add F5 in explorer windows for refresh…

By: zzzZZZzzz

zzzZZZzzz — Sun, 25 May 2008 10:10:54 +0000

Why someone would like to use Shift+Del instead of Del? Why not using the windows trash?

By: Salz`

Salz` — Sun, 25 May 2008 10:08:04 +0000

[Shift]+[Tab] – Move to the next control, reverse order
[Shift]+[Alt]+[Tab] – Move to the next App, reverse order
[Ctrl]+[Tab] – Move to next Tab (i.e. in Firefox)
[Shift]+[Ctrl]+[Tab] – Move to next Tab, reverese order.