Sunday, May 10, 2009

Keyboard shortcuts

Here are a few keyboard shortcuts which may come in handy:

Alt-Tab: Allows you to flip through windows
Alt-F6: Allows to flip through windows which are of the same program
Alt-Shift: Switches between typing languages (English and Chinese)
Alt-L Shift-Num lock: Switches on Mousekeys (an option which allows you to control your cursor without your mouse)
Alt-Enter: Shows the Properties window of the item that is selected
Alt-F4: Closes the current window
Ctrl +/- OR Ctrl Scroll: Zooms in and out in browser windows
Ctrl-Alt-Del: Brings up the task manager
Ctrl-W: Closes the current tab
Ctrl-C: Copies selected text/item
Ctrl-V:Pastes selected text/item
Ctrl-C: Cuts selected text/item
Ctrl-F: Brings up the Find bar in browser window
Ctrl-H: Shows the History sidebar (contains all the webpages which you have visited)
Win key-L: Allows you to switch user accounts if you are using the Fast User Switching, locks the computer otherwise

1 comment:

  1. Hi,
    This is Rayson. Actually, I did not knbow that you know so much about all these shortcut keys, you know? However, they are really useful. I never knew that much at all. In fact, I do not know any. Could you like post more of these shortcut keys in future? You know, they are useful, so I could use them to save lots of troubles. Thanks.

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