| Loads of shortcuts:
F2: rename F3: find Alt F4: close window, ctrl-w seems to do this a lot these days too Alt minus: show child document window menu Alt space: show window menu, useful if you remember the X for maximize/minimize, z for resize, m for move, r for restore immediately afterwards. F4 go to address bar in Explorer F5 refresh Ctrl F6 switch windows in MDI interface Ctrl escape: show start menu Shift-F10: right click menu Windows E: explorer Alt-up in explorer: go to directory above; backspace/alt-left: go to previous history item Windows W windows ink for annotation Windows R for run Windows U for narrator Windows F used to do find but now shows the feedback tool, which I think is a loss Any command after the word control will open control panel to the right place, eg control display Windows D show desktop toggle Windows M minimise all windows, windows shift M restore windows Ctrl-shift-escape: show task manager Ctrl tab/ctrl-shift-tab move to next/previous UI item so you can use the UI with a keyboard; this is why web apps that pretend to be native are so useless and annoying because this doesn't work Also system items normally end with .msc to open the management console, eg. Compmgmt.msc. There's a load of these that help you get to the nitty gritty of the system. Turn on "show accelerators" in accessibility and menu entries and buttons will have their accelerator underlined, eg the O in OK or F in File. You can then use alt-(letter) to go to it, eg alt-f to open the file menu, s for save. Honestly I don't know how I would have got through using Windows for decades without these shortcuts. I always find the Mac relies on mouse usage a lot more and the ctrl-F2 and ctrl-F3 shortcut to get to the menu bar and dock on Mac doesn't compare. |