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Windows Keystroke Shortcuts
The following are a just a few (of many)
keystrokes that are useful in Widows 95/98 and NT.
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Alt + F4 -
Exit out of an application
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Ctrl + F4 -
Exit out of a child window (MDI application)
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Alt + Space -
Access the "Control" menu of an application
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Alt + - - Access
the "Control" menu of a child window (MDI application)
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Ctrl + F6 -
Switch to the next open child window
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Ctrl + Shift + F6 -
Switch to the previous open child window
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Alt + F6 -
Toggle focus to the desktop icons (95 only)
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Ctrl + Esc -
Access the "Start" menu
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Alt + Tab -
Allows switching to any open application in the order that they were last
active
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Alt + Shift + Tab -
Allows switching to any open application in the opposite order
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Ctrl + Alt + Del -
Switch to Task Manager (95/98)
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Ctrl + Shift + Esc -
Switch to Task Manager (NT)
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PrntScrn -
Captures the entire desktop into the clipboard
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Alt + PrntScrn -
Captures the active parent widow into the clipboard
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Shift + F10 -
Access the right-click menu of an object
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F4 - This opens
the drop down portion of a combo box if it has focus
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F2 - Renames
files in any explorer-type window
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Alt + Enter - Accesses
the properties of any object in an explorer-type window
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Ctrl + PgUp -
Cycles "left" through all the tabs of a tabbed dialog
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Ctrl + PgDn -
Cycles "right" through all the tabs of a tabbed dialog
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WinBtn + M -
This minimizes all windows. Note: this (and all the other WinBtn ones)
only works for keyboards (almost all of them) that have the special
"Windows" key (which I've denoted "WinBtn")
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WinBtn + Shift + M -
This restores all windows that were minimized with "WinBtn + M"
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WinBtn + E -
Calls up the Windows Explorer.
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WinBtn + R -
Calls up the Run dialog box (same as Start->Run).
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