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Keyboard shortcuts

Using Keyboard is one of the best habits for computer professionals. Coders and computer professionals use keyboard short cuts instead of mouse.

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 other than XP.

- Ctrl + Alt + Up Arrow: Undo inversion.

- Win + B : Move focus to systray icons.

General Keyboard Shortcuts

- Ctrl + C or Ctrl + Insert: Copy.

- Ctrl + X or Shift + Delete: Cut.

- Ctrl + V or Shift + Insert: Paste/Move.

- Ctrl + N: New... File, Tab, Entry, etc.

- 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.

General Navigation Shortcuts

- Tab: Forward one item.

- Shift + Tab: Backward one item.

- Ctrl + Tab: Cycle through tabs/child windows.

- Ctrl + Shift + Tab: Cycle backwards through tabs/child windows.

- Enter: If a button\'s selected, click it, otherwise, click default button.

- Space: Toggle items such as radio buttons or checkboxes.

- Alt + (Letter): Activate item corresponding to (Letter). (Letter) is the underlined letter on the item\'s name.

- Ctrl + Left: Move cursor to the beginning of previous word.

- Ctrl + Right: Move cursor to the beginning of next word.

- Ctrl + Up: Move cursor to beginning of previous paragraph. This and all subsequent Up/Down hotkeys in this section have only been known to work in Rich Edit controls.

- Ctrl + Down: Move cursor to beginning of next paragraph.

- Shift + Left: Highlight one character to the left.

- Shift + Right: Highlight one character to the right.

- Shift + Up: Highlight from current cursor position, to one line up.

- Shift + Down: Highlight from current cursor position, to one line down.

- Ctrl + Shift + Left: Highlight to beginning of previous word.

- Ctrl + Shift + Right: Highlight to beginning of next word.

- Ctrl + Shift + Up: Highlight to beginning of previous paragraph.

- Ctrl + Shift + Down: Highlight to beginning of next paragraph.

- Home: Move cursor to top of a scrollable control.

- End: Move cursor to bottom of a scrollable control.

File Browser

- Arrow Keys: Navigate.

- Shift + Arrow Keys: Select multiple items.

- Ctrl + Arrow Keys: Change focus without changing selection. \"Focus\" is the object that will run on Enter. Space toggles selection of the focused item.

- (Letter): Select first found item that begins with (Letter).

- BackSpace: Go up one level to the parent directory.

- Alt + Left: Go back one folder.

- Alt + Right: Go forward one folder.

- Enter: Activate (Double-click) selected item(s).

- Alt + Enter: View properties for selected item.

- F2: Rename selected item(s).

- Ctrl + NumpadPlus: In a Details view, resizes all columns to fit the longest item in each one.

- Delete: Delete selected item(s).

- Shift + Delete: Delete selected item(s); bypass Recycle Bin.

- Ctrl while dragging item(s): Copy.

- Ctrl + Shift while dragging item(s): Create shortcut(s).

- In tree pane, if any:

- Left: Collapse the current selection if expanded, or select the
parent folder.

- Right: Expand the current selection if collapsed, or select the
first subfolder.

- Numpad Asterisk: Expand currently selected directory and all
subdirectories. No undo.

- Numpad Plus: Expand currently selected directory.

- Numpad Minus: Collapse currently selected directory.

Accessibility

- Right Shift for eight seconds: Toggle FilterKeys on and off. FilterKeys must be enabled.

- Left Alt + Left Shift + PrintScreen: Toggle High Contrast on and
off. High Contrast must be enabled.

- Left Alt + Left Shift + NumLock: Toggle MouseKeys on and off.
MouseKeys must be enabled.

- NumLock for five seconds: Toggle ToggleKeys on and off. ToggleKeys must be enabled.

- Shift five times: Toggle StickyKeys on and off. StickyKeys must be enabled.

- Microsoft Natural Keyboard with IntelliType Software Installed

- Win + L: Log off Windows.

- Win + P: Open Print Manager.

- Win + C: Open control panel.

- Win + V: Open clipboard.

- Win + K: Open keyboard properties.

- Win + I: Open mouse properties.

- Win + A: Open Accessibility properties.

- Win + Space: Displays the list of Microsoft IntelliType shortcut keys.

- Win + S: Toggle CapsLock on and off.

Remote Desktop Connection Navigation

- Ctrl + Alt + End: Open the NT Security dialog.

- Alt + PageUp: Switch between programs.

- Alt + PageDown: Switch between programs in reverse.

- Alt + Insert: Cycle through the programs in most recently used order.

- Alt + Home: Display start menu.

- Ctrl + Alt + Break: Switch the client computer between a window and a full screen.

- Alt + Delete: Display the Windows menu.

- Ctrl + Alt + NumpadMinus: Place a snapshot of the entire client window area on the Terminal server clipboard and provide the same functionality as pressing Alt + PrintScreen on a local computer.

- Ctrl + Alt + NumpadPlus: Place a snapshot of the active window in the client on the Terminal server clipboard and provide the same functionality as pressing PrintScreen on a local computer.

These are some of the widely used keyboard shortcuts by all the applications and softwares.

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