I want to share to you some famous Hotkeys (also known as shortcut keys) in Windows.
These Hotkeys saves a lot of time and effort. Start learning it now. Here it is.
1. Windows Hotkeys
- Shift + F10 = right-clicks.
- Win + L (XP Only) = Locks keyboard. Similar to Lock Workstation.
- Win + F or F3 = Open Find dialog. (All Files) F3 may not work in some applications which use F3 for their own find dialogs.
- Win + Control + F = Open Find dialog. (Computers)
- Win + U = Open Utility Manager.
- Win + F1 = Open Windows help.
- Win + Pause = Open System Properties dialog.
- Win + Tab = Cycle through taskbar buttons. Enter clicks, AppsKey or Shift + F10 right-clicks.
- Win + Shift + Tab = Cycle through taskbar buttons in reverse.
- Alt + Tab = Display CoolSwitch. More commonly known as the AltTab dialog.
- Alt + Shift + Tab : Display CoolSwitch; go in reverse.
- Alt + Escape = Send active window to the bottom of the z-order.
- Alt + Shift + Escape = Activate the window at the bottom of the z-order.
- Alt + F4 = Close active window; or, if all windows are closed, open shutdown dialog.
- Shift while a CD is loading = Bypass AutoPlay.
- Ctrl + Alt + Delete or Ctrl + Alt + NumpadDel (Both NumLock states) = Invoke the Task Manager or NT Security dialog.
- Ctrl + Shift + Escape (2000/XP ) = Invoke the task manager. On earlier OSes, acts like Ctrl + Escape.
- prt sc or Printscreen = Copy screenshot of current screen to clipboard.
- Alt + Printscreen = Copy screenshot of current active window to clipboard.
2. Generic
- Ctrl + C or Ctrl + Insert = Copy
- Ctrl + X or Shift + Delete = Cut
- Ctrl + V or Shift + Insert = Paste/Move
- Ctrl + N = New
- Ctrl + S = Save
- Ctrl + O = Open
- Ctrl + P = Print
- Ctrl + Z = Undo
- Ctrl + A = Select all.
- Ctrl + F = Find
- Ctrl+W = to close the current window
- Ctrl + F4 = Close tab or child window
- F1 = Open help
- F11 = Toggle full screen mode
- Alt or F10 = Activate menu bar
- Alt + Space = Display system menu. Same as clicking the icon on the titlebar
- Escape = Remove focus from current control/menu, or close dialog box.
If you have some more Hotkeys please share it here. Thank you very much.
