Windows Tips: By GURU Dave Smith

Shortcuts For Windows Key

The Windows icon key located on the bottom of your PC’s keyboard is al little-used treasure. Don’t ignore it. It is the shortcut for the following 10 commands.

· Windows: Display start menu

· Windows+ D: Minimize or restore all Windows

· Windows+ E: Display Windows Explorer

· Windows+ Tab: Cycle through buttons on taskbar

· Windows+ F: Display find: all files

· Windows+ Ctrl+ F: Display find: computer

· Windows+ F1: Display help

· Windows+ R Display Run command

· Windows+ break: Display system properties dialog box

· Windows+ shift+ M: Undo minimize all windows

Windows Tips: Navigational Tips

Its easy to navigate Windows with these keyboard shortcuts.

· ALT + Tab: This moves to the next open window.

· ALT + Spacebar: This opens a dialog box to maximize, move, and resize windows.

· Ctrl + Home: This brings you to the top of a page.

· Ctrl + End: This brings you to the bottom of a page.

Windows Tip: Create A Shortcut

You may use the same program every time you compute—say you use Internet Explorer, for example. Instead of opening the start menu to get to the program, create a shortcut.

You can create a shortcut by right-clicking the program, selecting Create Shortcut, and following the steps. Or create a shortcut by using this shortcut. It’s easy is you follow these four steps:

· Open Windows Explorer.

· Choose the program you want to reach via shortcut.

· Hold Control and click program.

· Drag to the desktop.