What is that Windows Key for on my keyboard?
Take a look on your keyboard…just to the left of the spacebar. Do you see that key with the flag on it? Do you know what it’s for? Hmm, me either.
I am in front of PCs all day and I never intentionally use that key. Most of the time, I hit it on accident and then Esc out of it.
That is until I found out some shortcuts that key holds:
- Windows key
- Displays START menu
- Windows key + d
- Shows the Desktop. Repeated, it restores the previous windows that were being displayed
- Windows key + e
- Opens a new Windows Explorer window
- Windows key + f
- Displays Find Files or Search
- Windows key + m
- Minimizes all windows
- Windows key + shift + m
- Undo Minimize all
- Windows key + r
- Displays the Run dialog box
- Windows key + Shift + m
- Restores windows minimized by previous command
- Windows key + F1
- Opens Windows Help
- Windows key + Ctrl + F
- Find any computer
- Windows key + tab
- Cycle through Taskbar buttons
- Windows key + break
- Open System Properties
Obtained from the most obvious place you’d never think to look: Microsoft
