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How to use Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts
- sp332 17y agoGotta love this at the beginning: "Windows 7 may just be the most keyboard friendly operating system yet." Even if you just count MS OSes, what about DOS?
- TheEcclesiast 17y agoThey forgot the most useful one : Win + D for desktop
- mattmanser 17y agoAnd the 2nd most useful one for techies, Win+r for the run prompt.
- bitwize 17y ago...but awesome already has that one...
- sp332 17y agowin7 doesn't need a run prompt, just hit the windows key and type.
- UpFromTheGut 17y agoIt's slower, though. It takes longer to search through the index than to just run the program in the windows directory. For programs I run frequently, I place 1 letter shortcuts in the windows directory. That way, to launch a program I just type Win+R+[char]+Enter. You can also launch shortcuts on the taskbar using Win+[0-9], but if you already have an instance it will just show you the existing one .. which is useless because that's what Alt+Tab is for. Edit: You can also assign shortcuts like Ctrl+Alt+[char], but those are more awkward to use, and also will focus an existing instance instead of creating a new one.
- sp332 17y agoThose shortcuts are cool, but for programs in the path, you don't need to wait for search. You can hit the Win key, paste a long command line, and press Enter immediately. Or just throw down "cmd" or "regedit" before the menu has finished fading in, it still works.
- 3pt14159 17y agoAuto Hotkey Scripts work amazingly in XP. I could do all of those things and more if I wanted to.
- iamelgringo 17y agoI just posted a better list over here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=892752 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=892752