These shortcuts a few keyboard shortcuts for Windows XP many people might not know. No these are not the Copy, Cut, Paste etc. If not some, you don’t know at least one of these 10 shortcuts. Please don’t blabber or downgrade us if you know all of them because these are generally for newbies. We hope if not all then some of these may come handy daily. A must have look for all.
To Minimize all windows
Window key + D
To switch through windows
Alt + Tab
To know the Properties of a file
Click on a Folder or File and then Press Alt + Enter
To delete the file completely from your hard disk instead of dripping into Recycle Bin
Click on the File or Folder and press Shift + Delete
To take a screenshot of your desktop/current screen (the screenshot is saved in your clipboard)
Print Screen SysRq [located beside Scroll Lock Key]
To take a screen shot of the active window only (the screenshot is saved in your clipboard)
Alt + Print Screen SysRq
To open Properties of My Computer
Window key + Pause Break
To make a copy of file
Click on the File or Folder, Hold Ctrl and drag the Folder or file to any location where you want to copy
To open your start menu
Ctrl + Esc
To refresh your screen or page (Browser or Desktop)
Press function key F5
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wow i had never heard of these, thanks for the post
I knew like 5 or 6 of these…
Very useful post, thanks for sharing!
It could just be me, but these are all pretty common knowledge.
Most of those are extremely common. the start menu is kinda pointless though since most people have keyboards with the “start” or “windows” key which does the same thing in one keystroke.
Woa Dude Thanks! This is cool
Another one is, if you have a folder open with thumbnails showing, and the folder names underneath, to get rid of the folder names, change the view to “details” or something other than “Thumbnails” and then hold the Shift key down and then switch back to “Thumbnail” view and the folder names will be gone. To get them back, repeat the above steps.
Thanks a lot for the tip Steve, I never knew that ! We will incorporate it over in to next tutorial and accredit you for the help
Thanks again
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yes most of them are common, we mean that some people might not know some of these
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I didn’t know about 0 of these.
I knew most…but why bother with ^ESC when you can simply press the Window key to bring up the start menu?
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I just knew few of those. These shortcuts are really very helpful. Also I know these
SHIFT+F10 – It opens a shortcut menu for the selected item
CTRL+ESC – It opens the Start menu
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