Surely you have heard this before: instead of chaining clicks to complete a task, you can perform a simple combination of keys to achieve the same end. These are called "keyboard shortcuts”.
It may seem silly but once you get used to using certain key combinations there comes a time when you think «How could I have lived until now without knowing this? But it is much more comfortable!»
Also, until you memorize them at first you always have those moments of doubt «¿¿Was it control + alt or shift + control?«. Come on, you have a great time putting your paw in (and sometimes you even learn a new shortcut without looking for it).
Here are the 10 most useful keyboard shortcuts for Windows 7:
- Windows key combined with the symbols «+» and «-« , this enlarges and reduces the view of the desktop.
- Windows key combined with left or right arrows, on systems with more than one monitor, moves the active window between the screens.
- Windows key and up or down arrows, maximizes the active window or minimizes it to the taskbar.
- Windows key and space key, useful when we want to see the desktop and we have many windows above it. Is what is called Aero Peek.
- Windows key and start key, it minimizes all the windows except the active one, if it is pressed again it is restored.
- Windows key combined with H key, maximizes the current window to full screen.
- Windows key combined with I key, the opposite, it restores the full-screen maximized window to the previous size and if it is already like that, it minimizes it.
- Windows key and E key, open "computer" (my PC).
- Windows key and F key, opens a search window.
- Windows key and L key, locks the session. Very useful when we have to get away from the PC for a while and we do not want to see what was being done, on the way back it asks us for the password to access.