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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
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Open
branch/close branch |
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Numeric
key pad asterisk/numeric key pad minus
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Opens
all branches below current selection/closes everything under
current selection |
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Any
printing character
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Moves
to next item in tree that starts with that character |
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Backspace
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Move
to parent folder |
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F3
or Win-F
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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
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Properties
for files or folders |
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