Shortcut Keys
Useful Shortcut Keys in Windows 7
Taskbar Shortcuts
Top BottomRepeatedly ctrl-clicking a taskbar button cycles through the running instances of the application.
Winlogo+n is equivalent to clicking the nth taskbar button.
Winlogo+T to cycle through the taskbar buttons, and Winlogo+B to cycle through notification area icons. Use
- the arrow keys to cycle through items
- the spacebar to 'click' the highlighted item
- the menu key to display the item's jump list (or context menu for notification area)
- shift+F10 to display the item's context menu
Winlogo Shortcuts
Top Bottom- Winlogo+R
- Opens the 'Run' dialogue
- Winlogo+arrow key
- Perform Aero Snap functions
- Winlogo+M
- Minimise all windows: undo with Shift+Winlogo+M
- Winlogo+Home
- Minimise all but the current window: undo with Shift+Winlogo+Home
- Winlogo+Spacebar
- Hide all open windows, showing transparent borders only
- Winlogo+D
- Toggle 'show desktop'
- Winlogo+G
- Bring gadgets to the foreground
- Winlogo+E
- Opens Windows explorer with 'Computer' as the selected folder
- Ctrl+Esc
- Open Start Menu
- Ctrl+Shift+Esc
- Launch Taskmanager
- Ctrl+Shift+click (on task bar buttons and start menu shortcuts)
- Start application with administrator priviledges
- Ctrl+Shift+Enter (on start menu search items)
- Start application with administrator priviledges
- Shift+right-click
- Exposes a fuller sendto menu when applied to an object
