Some Windows Keyboard Shortcuts You Probably Didn’t Know Of

I found out some shortcuts recently which I didn’t know of.

• Ctrl + Tab will switch through the tabs in a tabbed window like that of Firefox
• Alt + Enter will open up the properties of a file or folder when it is selected (while enter opens it)
• F2 can rename an item
• Win Key (start) + Tab will cycle through items on the taskbar, without opening them (then, pressing Enter will open them)

While dragging an item for copying or moving

• Ctrl while dragging a file will cause it to be copied
• Shift while dragging a file will cause it to be moved
• Alt while dragging a file will cause a shortcut to be placed in the destination folder

While exploring in windows explorer

• Left and Right Arrows will collapse and expand folders (so will + and – in the number pad)
• * (in the number pad) will expand all folders below the current selection
• F6 will switch panes

While viewing folders (like in My Computer

• Backspace will let you go to the upper level folder
• Alt + Right or Left Arrow will go forward or backward

While editing text

• Ctrl + Backspace will erase a whole word.
• Ctrl + Left or Right Arrow will go one word left or right
• Ctrl + Home or End will go to the first or last position
• Shift + Any movement selects text. (Shift + Ctrl + Home will select from first to the point where you are, Shift + Home will select the line up to where you are, like wise)

Some of these have been filtered from worldstart.com

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