Comments on: Top 5 Windows Shortcuts you Can’t Live Without [Poll]

By: joe

joe — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:34:57 +0000

ctrl f
copy paste cut
alt tab

By: John Baima

John Baima — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:23:38 +0000

Tough one. I sacrificed Ctrl+Alt+Del for Alt+Tab. I only use Ctrl+Alt+Del once at bootup and keep it open always. Alt+Tab however survives when explorer.exe is killed, and is responsive when everything else isn’t. Love it.

Also, I love the AutoHotkey Script I made that makes Ctrl+Alt+F4 kill the process of the current active window (or restart explorer.exe if none are selected).

By: Joseph Z.

Joseph Z. — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:17:05 +0000

F2 for rename is one that I find useful every single day. I didn’t know about it until a few months ago, but it saves a lot of clicks.

And there’s always CTR-ARROW/SHIFT-CTRL-ARROW to move by word or section (which I use constantly). I wanted that function back in the days of Win 3.11.

By: thebeard03

thebeard03 — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:17:52 +0000

[win]+s, s –> shutdown

By: Altzan

Altzan — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:05:22 +0000

I love Win-L, a fast way to lock my computer.
I use Ctrl + V,C,X a lot as well, along with Ctrl + Alt + Del, and Ctrl + A.
The rest were unfamiliar to me.

By: ctrl+enter

ctrl+enter — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:31:55 +0000

in the internet explorer address bar (i think firefox & opera too) use ctrl + enter to auto complete http://www…com

By: Mackenzie

Mackenzie — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:02:27 +0000

Windows Break. It gets the System Info box up so you can check out the hardware. I use it to quickly find if a computer will be Linux compatible.

^C, ^V, and ^X aren’t Windows-specific, though….neither is Alt+Tab.

And the “Windows” key is really the Super key. It’s the same as the Apple key, the Sun diamond key, and the Ubuntu key. They’re all just universally the Super key, for those times when hardware and software disagree.

By: RandyN

RandyN — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:37:43 +0000

Ctrl + Shift + Esc –> brings up task manager

By: James

James — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:36:11 +0000

alt+space -> ever loose the top part of window above the screen? alt+space opens a menu that alows you to navigate to the move option so even if the top of a window is above your screen you can move it back down.

way usefull

By: Rarst

Rarst — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:42:09 +0000

Ctrl+Shift+Esc

Second place to shortcut that historically means “in case of trouble”. Says something about OS, doesn’t it? (disclaimer – I am happy Windows user, just found it funny)