Windows Keyboard Shortcuts You need to know

  Useful Windows Keyboard Shortcuts You need to know

In this article i made a handy list of most useful Windows shortcut keys that will make your day to day tech life better. Collection of best Keyboard Shortcuts and tricks.

Also read How to protect your Facebook account from getting hacked

Windows Keyboard Shortcuts

Use ctrl+shift+escape to directly open the task manager

Use Windows Key + Arrow Key (left/right) to either move your window across multiple monitors, or to fix it to that half of the screen.

Windows + Left/Right = Move across monitors/maximize TO HALF

Windows + Up = Maximize

Window + Down = Minimize.

These help tons when you have multiple monitors.

Windows + Print Screen = Screenshot of the current window and saves it as a PNG in Pictures\Screenshots.

Win+Pause|Break = System Properties. 

Use Win+D to quickly show the desktop.

Press WinKey+L  to instantly lock your computer.

Shift + Right-Click a folder to access an alternative menu that allows you to open a CMD prompt from that location, among other things.

Open an elevated command prompt in not even half a second by pressing Winkey+X and then A.

Selecting an item and hitting F2 allows you to rename the item.Press TAB to jump to the next file when renaming.

Aligning Windows: Win + Left/Right Arrow.

Resizing Icons: CTRL - Mouse Wheel.

Ctrl + 0 to Always Set the Zoom to default value.

Windows Key+E (Open an Explorer Window)

Windows key + T: Cycle through the apps on the taskbar.

Winkey+ Number: Opens the corresponding numbered application from the taskbar icons. Win+1 opens the first , Win+2 opens the second , etc.

Winkey+ M Minimizes all windows.

Winkey+ Spacebar Preview Desktop (makes all open windows transparent)

Winkey+Shift+S - Screenshot a Portion of the Screen using snipping tool in Windows 10

Winkey+ Tab - Accidentally found that when I was trying to alt tab. A cooler view of alt tab.

Ctrl + Alt + [Arrow keys] - Flips screen Upside-Down & Right-Left

Ctrl + Z Undoes an action.

Ctrl + Y Redoes an action.

Ctrl + Shift + N Creates a new folder.

Ctrl + O Open a file in current software program.

Alt + Enter This forces demos to go full screen.

Alt + F4 Close the currently active program.

When typing an address into most browsers, CTRL + Enter will wrap whatever you typed with the http://www before it and .com after it. Type Cybernog ctrl+enter as an example.

Pressing Ctrl+TAB will allow you to seamlessly switch between tabs in your internet browser.

In chrome, Control + Shift + T reopens a tab you accidentally closed.

F6  places the cursor in the address bar of your browser - I use that a lot.

Ctrl + A Select all text.

Ctrl + Backspace deletes entire words at a time Also, Ctrl + arrow keys will move the cursor word by word, and if you hold shift you can select word by word.

Ctrl + Shift + V: paste text without formatting.

Press Ctrl+Shift+[Arrow Key] to select blocks of text.

Simply loop a video on Youtube by right clicking it and hitting "loop".

Keys J (-10sec) - K (pause) - L (+10 sec) controls Youtube video.

There are more hotkeys for Youtube such as F - Full screen, C - Closed Captions, M - Mutes, 0-9 keys for going directly to certain parts of the video.

Is Your Audio Out of Sync in VLC? Use ctrl + K or ctrl + L (or just J and K) to increase/decrease audio delay to fix sync issues.

I hope you will find this post about windows keyboard shortcuts to be useful, I would be very grateful if you’d help it spread by sharing it to a friend or on Facebook. Thank you!

Also read 10 ways Hackers can hack your Facebook account
Also read 10 Amazing Websites that you should make use of in 2017

Keywords
useful windows keyboard shortcuts,windows keyboard shortcuts,keyboard shortcuts keys, windows 10 keyboard shortcuts, Keyboard shortcuts for windows,