Monday, 15 July 2013

Windows 7 Shortcuts

Here I am giving few windows 7 useful shortcuts,

1. You pin your favorite application to your task-bar say edit-plus (Assume that this is your first application task-bar). Now you can access that application with keyboard shortcut Win + 1. In this way you can access 10 applications with Win + 2, Win + 3,....,Win + 10.

2. You have any one window open now if you want to adjust that window to half left of your computer screen then you can use Win + Left or Right Arrow. If you want to adjust this windows to right half of your screen, you can keep pressing Win + Left or Right Arrow.

3. If you want to restore down your active window then press Win + Down Arrow. If you want to maximize your active window then press Win + Up Arrow key.

4. If you want to browse through your folder hierarchy then use Alt + Arrow keys. This will work with your windows explorer. Here you can use Up, Left or Right arrow keys

5. Win + Alt + N will allow you to access jump list of Nth pinned application on your task-bar. Here N = 1, 2, ...,9 means number keys.

6. You can create shortcut for your favorite application for launching that application. Right click on your favorite application icon => Go to properties => shortcuts. Now click on shortcut field and press shortcut that you want. Ex. Alt + A.

7. Very useful is opening command prompt for particular folder. If you are in some folder say C:\a\b\c\d and now you want to open command prompt at this folder then press "Shift key + Right click" in your folder and you will get "open command window here" option. You click this option and you will get command prompt for that folder.

8. You know that after pressing Shift key five times opens Sticky key dialog box. If you want to avoid that follow the link in the same dialog box and here you can disable this feature.