If y'all use a mouse or touchpad a lot, it can be frustrating when either or both of them slow you downwards or finish working altogether. With a keyboard though, yous can quickly accomplish any chore you'd typically do with your mouse or touchpad through a uncomplicated simultaneous printing of ii or more keys.

As helpful as they are, keyboard shortcuts can also be daunting to memorize and utilise at first, but in one case you get the hang of it, they'll enhance your Windows 10 experience.

In this definitive guide, we're going to show y'all the usually used and new Windows 10 keyboard shortcuts for easier navigation and better productivity.

Windows 10 Keyboard Shortcuts

Clipboard Shortcut Keys
App Keyboard Shortcuts
System Hotkeys
Function Keys
Moving Cursor
Arrow Cardinal Shortcuts
Tabs And Windows
File Explorer Shortcuts
Dialog Box Shortcuts
Cortana Keyboard Shortcuts
Game Bar Shortcuts
Groove Music Shortcuts
Snip & Sketch Shortcuts
Windows Logo Key Shortcuts (Commonly Used)
Boob tube and Movies Shortcuts

Clipboard Shortcut Keys

  • Select all items in window or certificate: CTRL + A
  • Re-create: CTRL + C or CTRL + INSERT
  • Cut: CTRL + X
  • Paste: CTRL + V or SHIFT + INSERT
  • Have a screenshot: Windows logo key + PrtScn (Print Screen) or Fn + Windows logo key + Space Bar

App Keyboard Shortcuts

  • Hide open up apps and get to desktop: Windows + D
  • Minimize all open windows and apps: Windows + Thou
  • Snap a window or app to the left side of the screen: Windows + Left Pointer
  • Snap window or app to the correct side of the screen: Windows + Right Arrow
  • Minimize all windows and apps: Windows + Down pointer
  • Maximize all open windows and apps that have been minimized: Windows + Up arrow
  • Open Task Manager: CTRL + SHIFT + ESC
  • Switch between open apps: ALT + TAB
  • Show open apps: CTRL + ALT + TAB
  • Open up Sticky Notes app: Windows + 0 (zero)
  • Close active item or exit agile app: ALT + F4
  • Show countersign on sign-in screen: ALT + F8
  • Switch between windows in order of their opening: ALT + ESC
  • Display the selected item's properties: ALT + SPACEBAR
  • Become back to the previous folder: ALT + LEFT Pointer
  • Get forward/View the next folder: ALT + Correct ARROW
  • Move upward 1 screen: ALT + PAGE UP
  • Move downward one screen: ALT + Folio DOWN

System Hotkeys

  • Open up and shut Start Carte: Windows key
  • Open Start: CTRL + ESC
  • Open Settings: Windows + I
  • Open Action Center: Windows + A
  • Open File Explorer: Windows + E
  • Job View: Windows + Tab
  • Display/Hide desktop: Windows + D
  • Shutdown options: Windows + X
  • Lock PC: Windows + L
  • Maximize window: Windows + Up Arrow
  • Open up Xbox Game bar when playing a game on your laptop or computer: Windows + Thou
  • Actuate Connect card to link your Windows ten device and another via Bluetooth: Windows + K
  • Lock Windows 10 device and go dorsum to sign-in screen: Windows + L
  • Switch betwixt language and keyboard options: Windows + Space bar
  • Stop or leave electric current task: ESC
  • Delete selected item permanently (without moving to Recycle Bin first): SHIFT + DELETE
  • Close active document: CTRL + F4

Office Keys

  • Open Help window or folio: F1
  • Rename selected detail: F2
  • Search for a file or binder in File Explorer: F3
  • Display address bar listing in File Explorer: F4
  • Refresh active window: F5 or CTRL+R
  • Bicycle through screen elements on desktop or in a window: F6
  • Activate menu bar in active app: F10

Moving Cursor

  • Movement the cursor to the kickoff of the next give-and-take: CTRL + Right Arrow
  • Move the cursor back to the start of the previous word: CTRL + Left Arrow
  • Move the cursor back to the start of the previous paragraph: CTRL + Up Pointer
  • Motion the cursor to the start of the adjacent paragraph: CTRL + Downward Arrow
  • Go to the start of a document: CTRL + Left arrow
  • Get to the terminate of a document: CTRL + Right pointer

Arrow Key Shortcuts

  • Switch betwixt all open apps: CTRL + ALT + TAB
  • Motility grouping or tile in the specified management: ALT + SHIFT + Pointer keys
  • Movement a tile into another tile to create a folder on the Commencement bill of fare: CTRL + SHIFT + Arrow keys
  • Resize the Start card when open: CTRL + Pointer keys
  • Select multiple individual items on the desktop or in a window: CTRL + Arrow central + Spacebar
  • Select a block of text: CTRL + SHIFT with an arrow key
  • Switch keyboard layout when multiple keyboard layouts are available: CTRL + SHIFT
  • Plough Chinese Input Method Editor on/off: CTRL + Spacebar
  • Display shortcut carte du jour for selected item: SHIFT + F10
  • Select more than than ane item on the desktop or in a window, or select text in a document: SHIFT + whatsoever arrow key
  • Open a submenu or the adjacent menu to the right: Right arrow
  • Open a submenu or the side by side menu to the left: Left arrow

Tabs And Windows

  • Open a new tab in your spider web browser: CTRL + T
  • Reopen a tab you only airtight: CTRL + SHIFT + T
  • View your browsing history: CTRL+H
  • Close a window: CTRL + W

File Explorer Shortcuts

  • Select the address bar: ALT + D
  • Select the Search box: CTRL + E or CTRL + F
  • Open up a new window: CTRL + N
  • Close the active window: CTRL + West
  • Alter the size and appearance of the file and binder icons: CTRL + Mouse scroll wheel
  • Display all folders above the selected folder: CTRL + SHIFT + East
  • Create a new folder: CTRL + SHIFT + N
  • Display subfolders under the selected folder: NUM LOCK + Asterisk (*)
  • Display contents of the selected folder: NUM LOCK + Plus (+)
  • Collapse the selected folder: NUM LOCK + Minus (-)
  • Prove preview panel: ALT + P
  • View next binder: ALT + Right pointer
  • View the location binder: ALT + Upwards arrow
  • View previous folder: ALT + Left arrow or Backspace
  • Display current selection if collapsed, or select first subfolder: Right arrow
  • Open the next carte to the left or close a submenu: Left arrow
  • Brandish bottom of the active window: End key
  • Display top of the active window: Home fundamental
  • Minimize or maximize active window: F11

Dialog Box Shortcuts

  • Display agile list items: F4
  • Motion forwards through tabs: CTRL + TAB
  • Motility back through tabs: CTRL + SHIFT + TAB
  • Move to a certain tab: CTRL + Number (between 1 and 9)
  • Move forward through options: TAB
  • Move back through options: SHIFT + TAB
  • Perform control or select option used with a letter: ALT + Underlined Alphabetic character
  • Clear or select checkbox if the active option is a checkbox: Spacebar
  • Open up a binder one level upwards if the binder is selected in the Open up or Relieve As dialog box:Backspace
  • Select a button if the active choice is a grouping of pick buttons: Arrow keys

Cortana Keyboard Shortcuts

  • Open Search: Windows + S
  • Open Cortana in listening mode to speak without pressing microphone button: Windows + C

Note: Past default, this shortcut is disabled. To activate information technology, press Windows + I to open Settings, select Cortana and then select the switch just under Permit Cortana heed for my commands when I printing Windows logo central + C. If it's On, the shortcut will piece of work.

Game Bar Shortcuts

  • Open Game bar when a game is open: Windows + G
  • Tape the concluding 30 seconds: Windows + ALT + Grand
  • Outset/Stop recording: Windows + ALT + R
  • Take screenshot of the game: Windows + ALT + PRINT SCREEN
  • Show/Hide recording timer: Windows + ALT + T
  • Turn microphone on/off: Windows + ALT + Thousand
  • Start/Stop broadcasting: Windows + ALT + B
  • Bear witness camera while broadcasting: Windows + ALT + W

Groove Music Shortcuts

  • Play/Suspension: CTRL + P
  • Skip to next song: CTRL + F
  • Skip to previous song or restart current song: CTRL + B
  • Volume upwardly: F9 or book upward central
  • Volume down: F8 or volume downward central
  • Mute volume: F7 or mute key
  • Select item and enter selection manner: CTRL + Enter
  • Select All: CTRL + A
  • Delete selected item or items: Delete
  • Play selected item: CTRL + SHIFT + P
  • Repeat On/Off: CTRL + T
  • Shuffle On/Off: CTRL + H
  • Search: CTRL + Q

Snip & Sketch Shortcuts

  • Create new snip: CTRL + N
  • Open a file: CTRL + O
  • Movement cursor to select rectangular snip expanse: SHIFT + Arrow keys
  • Select Eraser: CTRL + E
  • Print annotation: CTRL + P
  • Undo annotation: CTRL + Z

Windows Logo Key Shortcuts (Commonly Used)

  • Wake PC from black or blank screen: Windows + CTRL + SHIFT + B
  • Turn on Narrator: Windows + CTRL + Enter
  • Display System Properties dialog box: Windows + Interruption
  • Search for PCs on a network: Windows + CTRL + F
  • Open Emoji panel: Windows + menses (.) or semicolon (;)
  • Open Ease of Access Center: Windows + U
  • Switch through apps on taskbar: Windows + T
  • Accept a partial screenshot of your screen: SHIFT + S
  • Open Run dialog box: Windows + R
  • Cull presentation display mode: Windows + P
  • Switch input between Windows Mixed Reality and desktop: Windows + Y
  • Minimize all windows: Windows + M

Television and Movies Shortcuts

  • Play in full-screen: ALT + Enter
  • Get out full-screen: ESC
  • Play or Pause with video in focus: CTRL + P or Spacebar
  • Plough repeat On/Off: CTRL + T

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