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Desktop and General |
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Shift-F10 |
Brings up same
menu you get with right-click |
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Shift while
inserting CD-ROM |
Bypass autoplay |
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F2 on selected
item |
Rename |
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Ctrl-Esc-R-.-Enter (enter a full stop in the Run command line) |
Opens your desktop folder (containing all folders and shortcuts currently on
your desktop) |
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Win-D |
Go to Desktop |
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Ctrl-Esc, Alt-M or Win-M;
Win-Shift-M |
Minimize all
windows;
Restore all windows |
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Alt-Esc
(continue pressing Esc) |
Shifts keyboard
focus to next open application |
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Ctrl-Esc; Win |
Start menu |
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Ctrl-Alt-Del |
Close Program
dialog (with access to kill tasks or shutdown) |
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Win-Break,
Alt-double click |
System
Properties |
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Shift-Del |
Delete bypassing
Recycle Bin |
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Win-E |
Explorer |
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Print Screen |
Copies entire
desktop to clipboard (can paste into a paint program) |
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Alt-Print Screen |
Copies active
window to clipboard (see above) |
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Win-R |
Run dialog |
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Explorer
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Right arrow/left
arrow |
Open
branch/close branch |
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Numeric key pad
asterisk/numeric key pad minus |
Opens all
branches below current selection/closes everything under current selection |
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Any printing
character |
Moves to next
item in tree that starts with that character |
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Backspace |
Move to parent
folder |
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F3 or Win-F |
Brings up Find
(works everywhere, but also in Explorer where it fills in the current folder
as the search path.) |
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F4 |
move to Address
drop down list |
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F5 |
Refresh (file
listing, for instance after you created a new file while the folder was
open) |
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Alt-Enter |
Properties for
files or folders |
