Important Keyboard Shortcuts (Must Use)

There are many keyboard shortcuts we hardly ever or never use. But if we start using them It saves a lot of time, Though we use many keyshortcuts such as ctrl+c for copy , ctrl+v for paste etc.

In addition with this a Techno should use all the keys for faster computing and saving a lot of time, also it’s very useful for Laptop and Palmtop users. Here’s a list of all the windows keyboard shortcut keys.

The keys which are not usually used or important are highlighted.

Windows Shortcut Keys:

“ALT”

ALT+F4: Closes current window / program (usually)
ALT+Space: Opens window title bar menu

ALT+(underlined letter) : opens the menu or corresponding button with the underlined word. e.g. In an explorer if u press ALT + F it opens the menu “File”.

”Windows Key”

Windows Key + L: Locks computer (if your account is has a password) or Switches the current user in Windows XP.
Windows Key + R : Opens "Run"
Windows Key + E: Opens Explorer
Windows Key + M: Minimize all windows
Windows Key + Shift + M: Maximize all windows
Windows Key + D: Show desktop
Windows Key + Pause|Break : Open System Properties
Windows Key + F: Open Windows File Find/Search
Windows Key +Tab : Cycle task bar buttons without that display thing (enter / space to select)

”CTRL”

CTRL+C: Copy
CTRL+V: Paste
CTRL+X: Cut
CTRL+Z: Undo
CTRL+A: Select All
CTRL+F: Find
CTRL+W: Closes current window
CTRL+F4: Closes currently focused 'form' / window in an MDI application, rather than the entire program.

Mozilla Firefox Shortcut Keys:

Ctrl + T opens a new tab and

Ctrl + Tab cycles through the tabs

Shortcut Keys Related to Browsers:

Ctrl+ Enter- throws the www and the .com on a domain name.

Eg. If u type google in the address bar and press Ctrl+Enter it will put the URL to www.google.com and will open that page.

There is also a shortcut for .org and .net
The working of following keys is similat to Ctrl+Enter.

Shift + Enter = adds .net

Ctrl + Shift + Enter = adds .org

These keys works well with Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox but may not be with Opera or others!

There are too many keyboard shortcuts other than mentioned here.

You can get the full details directly form Microsoft’s site:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/301583