Using keyboard shortcuts can often be much quicker than finding the right menu option to do things and having just a few shortcuts under your belt can speed up your navigation of windows and applications massively (as well as making you look really swish)
So here are a few of my most used keyboard shortcuts
Windows:
| Win + E | Open new windows Explorer View |
| Ctrl + Shift + Esc | Open Task Manager |
| Win + Pause/Break | Open the System Properties window |
| Alt + Tab | Open the System Properties window |
| Win + Tab | Win 10: Shows all active applications and desktops |
| Ctrl + Win + Left | Win10: Switch active desktop |
| Ctrl + Win + Right | Win10: Switch active desktop |
| Win + R | Run – see below for more on this |
Chrome:
| Ctrl + W | Close current tab |
| Ctrl + T | Open new tab |
| Ctrl + Shift + T | Re-open last closed tab! |
| Ctrl + Tab | Open tab to the right of current |
| Ctrl + Shift + Tab | Open tab to the left of current |
Run!
The run command can be great because it gives access to one line commands which will be run by windows like opening files or applications, if you want to get really advanced you can even pass in arguments to affect an application’s startup parameters but more on that another time. Here are a few of my most commonly used run commands:
| msconfig | Opens the windows startup configuration utility |
| cmd | Opens the command prompt |
| control | Opens the control Panel |
| Paint | Opens Paint |
| winword | Opens word |
| excel | Opens Excel |
| notepad | Opens Notepad |
| wordpad | Opens Wordpad |
If you’ve any you use often think I’ve missed out feel free to let me know
