All keyboard Shortcuts

Windows Shortcuts

 

 

• 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 Cool Switch. More commonly known as the AltTab dialog. 
  
  
• Alt + Shift + Tab: Display Cool Switch; 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. 
  
  
• Shift while login: Bypass startup folder. Only those applications will be ignored which are in the startup folder, not those started from the registry (Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\) 
  
  
• Ctrl + Alt + Delete or Ctrl + Alt + NumpadDel (Both NumLock states): Invoke the Task Manager or NT Security dialog. 
  
  
• Ctrl + Shift + Escape (2000/XP ) or (Ctrl + Alt + NumpadDot) : Invoke the task manager. On earlier OSes, acts like Ctrl + Escape. 
  
  
• Print screen: Copy screenshot of current screen to clipboard. 
  
  
• Alt + Print screen: Copy screenshot of current active window to clipboard. 
  
  
• Ctrl + Alt + Down Arrow: Invert screen. Untested on OS's other than XP. 
  
  
• Ctrl + Alt + Up Arrow: Undo inversion. 
  
  
• Win + B : Move focus to systray icons.

 

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