All keyboard Shortcuts

Windows Shortcuts

Shift + F10 right-clicks.

Win + L (XP Only): Locks keyboard. Similar to Lock Workstation.

Win + F or F3: Open Find dialog. (All Files) F3 may not work in some applications which use F3 for their own find dialogs.

Win + Control + F: Open Find dialog. (Computers)

Win + U: Open Utility Manager.

Win + F1: Open Windows help.

Win + Pause: Open System Properties dialog.

Win + Tab: Cycle through taskbar buttons. Enter clicks, AppsKey or Shift + F10 right-clicks.

Win + Shift + Tab: Cycle through taskbar buttons in reverse.

Alt + Tab: Display Cool Switch. More commonly known as the AltTab dialog.

Alt + Shift + Tab: Display Cool Switch; go in reverse.

Alt + Escape: Send active window to the bottom of the z-order.

Alt + Shift + Escape: Activate the window at the bottom of the z-order.

Alt + F4: Close active window; or, if all windows are closed, open shutdown dialog.

Shift while a CD is loading: Bypass AutoPlay.

Shift while login: Bypass startup folder. Only those applications will be ignored which are in the startup folder, not those started from the registry (Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\)

Ctrl + Alt + Delete or Ctrl + Alt + NumpadDel (Both NumLock states): Invoke the Task Manager or NT Security dialog.

Ctrl + Shift + Escape (2000/XP ) or (Ctrl + Alt + NumpadDot) : Invoke the task manager. On earlier OSes, acts like Ctrl + Escape.

Print screen: Copy screenshot of current screen to clipboard.

Alt + Print screen: Copy screenshot of current active window to clipboard.

Ctrl + Alt + Down Arrow: Invert screen. Untested on OS's other than XP.

Ctrl + Alt + Up Arrow: Undo inversion.

Win + B : Move focus to systray icons.

General

• Ctrl + C or Ctrl + Insert: Copy.

• Ctrl + X or Shift + Delete: Cut.

• Ctrl + V or Shift + Insert: Paste/Move.

• Ctrl + N: New... File, Tab, Entry, etc.

• Ctrl + S: Save.

• Ctrl + O: Open...

• Ctrl + P: Print.

• Ctrl + Z: Undo.

• Ctrl + A: Select all.

• Ctrl + F: Find...

• Ctrl+W : to close the current window

• Ctrl + F4: Close tab or child window.

• F1: Open help.

• F11: Toggle full screen mode.

• Alt or F10: Activate menu bar.

• Alt + Space: Display system menu. Same as clicking the icon on the titlebar.

• Escape: Remove focus from current control/menu, or close dialog box.

General Navigation

• Tab: Forward one item.

• Shift + Tab: Backward one item.

• Ctrl + Tab: Cycle through tabs/child windows.

• Ctrl + Shift + Tab: Cycle backwards through tabs/child windows.

• Enter: If a button's selected, click it, otherwise, click default button.

• Space: Toggle items such as radio buttons or checkboxes.

• Alt + (Letter): Activate item corresponding to (Letter). (Letter) is the underlined letter on the item's name.

• Ctrl + Left: Move cursor to the beginning of previous word.

• Ctrl + Right: Move cursor to the beginning of next word.

• Ctrl + Up: Move cursor to beginning of previous paragraph. This and all subsequent Up/Down hotkeys in this section have only been known to work in Rich Edit controls.

• Ctrl + Down: Move cursor to beginning of next paragraph.

• Shift + Left: Highlight one character to the left.

• Shift + Right: Highlight one character to the right.

• Shift + Up: Highlight from current cursor position, to one line up.

• Shift + Down: Highlight from current cursor position, to one line down.

• Ctrl + Shift + Left: Highlight to beginning of previous word.

• Ctrl + Shift + Right: Highlight to beginning of next word.

• Ctrl + Shift + Up: Highlight to beginning of previous paragraph.

• Ctrl + Shift + Down: Highlight to beginning of next paragraph.

• Home: Move cursor to top of a scrollable control.

• End: Move cursor to bottom of a scrollable control.