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Using your Keyboard
Various Keyboard Shortcuts
Switch between open applications:
Press Tab repeatedly while holding Alt.
Bring up a special menu: - almost anywhere in Windows
Right Click Mouse.
Switch easily between a full-screen and windowed command prompt:
Press Alt - Enter.
Open the Start Menu:
Press Ctrl - ESC.
Tab (move from one control to another) in reverse:
Hold Shift while pressing Tab.
Send the focus to the menu:
Press Alt by itself, and use the cursor keys to navigate.
Keyboard equivalents of Undo, Cut, Copy, and Paste:
Hold Ctrl while pressing Z, X, C, and V, respectively.
In many applications, the following will also work: Alt-Backspace, Shift-Del, Ctrl-Ins, and Shift-Ins, respectively.
Send the active window to the back:
Press Alt - ESC.
Move to the next tab in a tabbed dialog box:
Hold Ctrl while pressing Tab.
Expand all the directories in a a branch in Explorer:
Select the desired branch in Explorer, and press * (the asterisk key). If Desktop is selected, all directories in all drives will be expanded.
Switch to the TaskBar
Press Ctrl-ESC at any time to bring up the Start Menu.
Once the Start Menu appears, press ESC to close the menu while keeping the Taskbar active.
Then, press Tab to switch to the row(s) of running applications on the Taskbar.
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