Keyboard Shortcuts

[LSDave]

Who here loves em...
Im all about shortcuts, and surprisingly enough, i just found out that F2 on a windows machine was the shortcut to rename a file.

Share some of your fav's and some rarer ones you know.

i use ALT tab all the time to switch between apps, Ctrl F4 to close a window within an ap.

and now since im cleaning up my library of tvshows, im using F2 like a madman.

[J_Q]

i have always been a big fan of WIN+D to minimize every window and WIN+R to pop up the run box.

[LSDave]

i have always been a big fan of WIN+D to minimize every window and WIN+R to pop up the run box.

WIN+M will also minimize windows, but if you are copying files it wont minimize those tasks.... WIN+R is a good one i use as well.

[loprogression]

WIN+D

neat. I use win+m to achieve the same thing. i also use alt tab all the time. aside from that i don't use too many key commands. in logic on the other hand its all about the key commands. key commands for everything.

[Owen]

RAD THREAD.

I use keyb shortcuts all the tamz.

I can use a windows pc without a mouse no problem. Pretty much any function you can do with the mouse you can do with the keyboard, FASTER.

For Windows that are NOT maximized for instance, i'll use ALT + SPACE BAR + X to maximize the window. Or to go back to the windowed mode, ALT + SPACE BAR + R

You can do MOVE and SIZE functions via the ALT + SPACE bar as well.

I'll post more as they come to me.

Shame Jon Forsaken is away on his trance-mission. I'm sure he knows a TON.

[p_aul]

maybe post what these key commands do, i looked up f2

[AnitaBongrip]

i'm huge on alt tab, ctrl o(url box), n(new window), t(new tab) if we're in mozilla. and the obvious ones c(copy), x(cut), v(paste), b(bold) etc...
im usually on a mac, however now that i work on a computer all day, and a pc at that. I'm getting pretty good at em.



btw.

* F1: Help
* CTRL+ESC: Open Start menu
* ALT+TAB: Switch between open programs
* ALT+F4: Quit program
* SHIFT+DELETE: Delete item permanently
* Windows Logo+L: Lock the computer (without using CTRL+ALT+DELETE)
* CTRL+C: Copy
* CTRL+X: Cut
* CTRL+V: Paste
* CTRL+Z: Undo
CTRL+F:Find (so awesome, I use it all day at work while scrolling through a list on a-z procedures, makes things so fast and snappy)
* CTRL+B: Bold
* CTRL+U: Underline
* CTRL+I: Italic
CTRL+A: Select All

Mouse click/keyboard modifier combinations for shell objects
* SHIFT+right click: Displays a shortcut menu containing alternative commands
* SHIFT+double click: Runs the alternate default command (the second item on the menu)
* ALT+double click: Displays properties
* SHIFT+DELETE: Deletes an item immediately without placing it in the Recycle Bin

General keyboard-only commands
* F1: Starts Windows Help
* F10: Activates menu bar options
* SHIFT+F10 Opens a shortcut menu for the selected item (this is the same as right-clicking an object
* CTRL+ESC: Opens the Start menu (use the ARROW keys to select an item)
* CTRL+ESC or ESC: Selects the Start button (press TAB to select the taskbar, or press SHIFT+F10 for a context menu)
* CTRL+SHIFT+ESC: Opens Windows Task Manager
* ALT+DOWN ARROW: Opens a drop-down list box
* ALT+TAB: Switch to another running program (hold down the ALT key and then press the TAB key to view the task-switching window)
* SHIFT: Press and hold down the SHIFT key while you insert a CD-ROM to bypass the automatic-run feature
* ALT+SPACE: Displays the main window's System menu (from the System menu, you can restore, move, resize, minimize, maximize, or close the window)
* ALT+- (ALT+hyphen): Displays the Multiple Document Interface (MDI) child window's System menu (from the MDI child window's System menu, you can restore, move, resize, minimize, maximize, or close the child window)
* CTRL+TAB: Switch to the next child window of a Multiple Document Interface (MDI) program
* ALT+underlined letter in menu: Opens the menu
* ALT+F4: Closes the current window
* CTRL+F4: Closes the current Multiple Document Interface (MDI) window
* ALT+F6: Switch between multiple windows in the same program (for example, when the Notepad Find dialog box is displayed, ALT+F6 switches between the Find dialog box and the main Notepad window)

[LSDave]

maybe post what these key commands do, i looked up f2

i just found out that F2 on a windows machine was the shortcut to rename a file.



was in the first post.

[LSDave]

i'm huge on alt tab, ctrl o(url box), n(new window), t(new tab) if we're in mozilla. and the obvious ones c(copy), x(cut), v(paste), b(bold) etc...
im usually on a mac, however now that i work on a computer all day, and a pc at that. I'm getting pretty good at em.



btw.

* F1: Help
* CTRL+ESC: Open Start menu
* ALT+TAB: Switch between open programs
* ALT+F4: Quit program
* SHIFT+DELETE: Delete item permanently
* Windows Logo+L: Lock the computer (without using CTRL+ALT+DELETE)
* CTRL+C: Copy
* CTRL+X: Cut
* CTRL+V: Paste
* CTRL+Z: Undo
* CTRL+B: Bold
* CTRL+U: Underline
* CTRL+I: Italic

Mouse click/keyboard modifier combinations for shell objects
* SHIFT+right click: Displays a shortcut menu containing alternative commands
* SHIFT+double click: Runs the alternate default command (the second item on the menu)
* ALT+double click: Displays properties
* SHIFT+DELETE: Deletes an item immediately without placing it in the Recycle Bin

General keyboard-only commands
* F1: Starts Windows Help
* F10: Activates menu bar options
* SHIFT+F10 Opens a shortcut menu for the selected item (this is the same as right-clicking an object
* CTRL+ESC: Opens the Start menu (use the ARROW keys to select an item)
* CTRL+ESC or ESC: Selects the Start button (press TAB to select the taskbar, or press SHIFT+F10 for a context menu)
* CTRL+SHIFT+ESC: Opens Windows Task Manager
* ALT+DOWN ARROW: Opens a drop-down list box
* ALT+TAB: Switch to another running program (hold down the ALT key and then press the TAB key to view the task-switching window)
* SHIFT: Press and hold down the SHIFT key while you insert a CD-ROM to bypass the automatic-run feature
* ALT+SPACE: Displays the main window's System menu (from the System menu, you can restore, move, resize, minimize, maximize, or close the window)
* ALT+- (ALT+hyphen): Displays the Multiple Document Interface (MDI) child window's System menu (from the MDI child window's System menu, you can restore, move, resize, minimize, maximize, or close the child window)
* CTRL+TAB: Switch to the next child window of a Multiple Document Interface (MDI) program
* ALT+underlined letter in menu: Opens the menu
* ALT+F4: Closes the current window
* CTRL+F4: Closes the current Multiple Document Interface (MDI) window
* ALT+F6: Switch between multiple windows in the same program (for example, when the Notepad Find dialog box is displayed, ALT+F6 switches between the Find dialog box and the main Notepad window)

You use all these on a regular basis?:elmo: We all could have posted lists from the internet, was more looking for favs that people use that are not all that common.

[AnitaBongrip]

you should know though, i hate pcs.


and here are some dope mac shortcuts :) (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1343)

[AnitaBongrip]

You use all these on a regular basis?:elmo: We all could have posted lists from the internet, was more looking for favs that people use that are not all that common.

i got excited.
and am bored.
honestly, i narrowed some of that down to ones i use..sometimes hahaha

[starforsaken]

i use these daily:

alt tab
alt f4
start break - system properties
start r - run command. you really need this in vista/7/2k8 as there is no run command in the start menu by default
start l to lock pc
shift delete to remove file completely

i also use ncpa.cpl to get to network connections and appwiz.cpl to remove programs
also gpedit.msc and secpol.msc..etc

really i use the mouse as little as possible

[starforsaken]

RAD THREAD.

I use keyb shortcuts all the tamz.

I can use a windows pc without a mouse no problem. Pretty much any function you can do with the mouse you can do with the keyboard, FASTER.

For Windows that are NOT maximized for instance, i'll use ALT + SPACE BAR + X to maximize the window. Or to go back to the windowed mode, ALT + SPACE BAR + R

You can do MOVE and SIZE functions via the ALT + SPACE bar as well.

I'll post more as they come to me.

Shame Jon Forsaken is away on his trance-mission. I'm sure he knows a TON.
for the last time, i'm out in BC man. frequency is on v-day!

[kitikat]

Its 4:40 AM and i'm posting about favourite short cuts.. lots have been mentioned but two of my favs I haven't seen yet:

Windows Explorer: Windows Key + E
Screenshot of currently active Window: ALT + PrtScn

Another one that isn't always known is that if you have a Windoze error you can use CTRL+Copy with the error window active to copy the error. Sure beats typing it out manually or taking a screenshot!