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Windows 10 Keyboard Shortcuts

Microsoft has introduced variety of new keyboard shortcuts to navigate new features easily. Here are the most important Windows 10 keyboard shortcuts:

Winkey 10 keyboard shortcut Description
Winkey + Tab Activates Task View
Winkey + A Activates Action Center
Winkey + C Activates Cortana with speech>
Winkey + D Shows desktop
Winkey + E Opens File Explorer
Winkey + G Activates the new Xbox game bar to let you record games or take screenshots.
Winkey + H Activates share feature in Windows 10 apps
Winkey + I Opens Windows 10 settings
Winkey + K Activates Connect feature to stream to wireless displays and audio devices
Winkey + L Locks a machine
Winkey + P Project a screen
Winkey + R Run a command
Winkey + S Activates Cortana
Winkey + X Opens power user features
Winkey + Left / Right / Up / Down Snaps apps to the side of a screen (press Up or Down after snapping left / right to enable four apps to snap)
Winkey + Ctrl + D Creates a new virtual desktop
Winkey + Ctrl + F4 Close virtual desktop
Winkey + Ctrl + Left or Right Switch between virtual desktops
Winkey + Shift + Left or Right Move apps from one monitor to another
Winkey + 1 / 2 / 3… Open programs that are pinned on the taskbar. The first app is number one.

2 thoughts to “Windows 10 Keyboard Shortcuts”

  1. This isn’t the complete list of keyboard shortcuts in Windows, but they’re the most important ones when it comes to general window management. MS relaxed a number of the Precision Touchpad requirements, and made it optional for Win10.

  2. My primary computers are Macs and their primary operating system is OS X, so one of the things I disliked the most about going back to Windows was its window management.

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