Windows 10 keyboard shortcut: good combinations

Want to save time on a daily basis in your manipulations on your PC? Adopt the Windows keyboard shortcuts: you will go much faster than with the mouse in many common operations!

As you know, Windows being an operating system with a graphical interface, you can do everything or almost with the mouse – or the touchpad, when you use a laptop. But, as intuitive as it is, the use of the mouse sometimes requires several gestures to navigate in windows, browse menus and click on function buttons. And it is often much faster to use keyboard shortcuts to carry out current operations.

What is a keyboard shortcut?

As its name suggests, a keyboard shortcut is a shortcut, that is to say a way to quickly achieve a goal. In this case, to carry out an action directly using only the keyboard. In practice, it is generally a combination of keys to type simultaneously – even if sometimes a touch is enough. Most often, it is a question of associating a “special” touch – like the keys Windows (the one with the logo), Ctrl,, Alt Or Uppercase (and a “classic” touch (letter, figure, punctuation symbol).

Most of the time, we note the keyboard shortcuts with the names of the keys to be combined and the symbol +. For example, Ctrl + C,, Windows + E Or Ctrl + Alt + Delete.

Like all operating systems, Windows 10 uses many keyboard shortcuts, some inherited from the old and well -known versions, other exclusive or recent and much less known.

With a few rare exceptions, all shortcuts require combining several keys, including one or two special keys. As it is not physically possible to press all the keys exactly at the same time, we start by pressing the special key (Ctrl Or Windowsfor example), then, while holding it down, we press the other key without delay. A gesture that can be learned very quickly.

Microsoft, however, thought of people with disabilities – or having a coordination problem – and Windows has, in its ergonomics options, a function simplifying the use of keyboard shortcuts: Recorded keys. Once this option is activated, you can type the keys with a successively shortcut, one by one, therefore, and not simultaneously. We can even use this function punctually, typing five times in a row on the key Uppercase.

Note also that the names and symbols used for certain special keys vary from one keyboard or computer manufacturer to another. So the key Uppercase is sometimes called Upris – Or Shifton Anglo-Saxon keyboards-or just represented by an arrow.

Unfortunately, there is no miracle recipe to memorize all the shortcuts existing keyboards. Especially since those of Windows are added those of applications, which sometimes use a lot … In practice, it is the habit that anchors them in memory, with repetition. But some mnemonic means also facilitate the task.

Thus, the famous Ctrl + X which is used to “cut” is associated with X, which can be represented as a pair of scissors. Often, the letter combined with a special key is the initial of an English word defining the action: Ctrl + C (C for copy)Windows + D (D for Desktop, ie Bureau), Windows + E (E to explore, either explorer), etc. Some notions of English thus make it easier to memorize certain shortcuts.

What are the main Windows 10 keyboard shortcuts?

There are dozens of keyboard shortcuts for Windows, some of which are specialized for integrated applications or accessibility options. Here are the main ones, which we consider to be the most common. If necessary, you will find a Complete and official list On the Microsoft assistance website.

Essential keyboard shortcuts

Current keyboard shortcuts

Keyboard shortcut for desktop and windows

Shortcut for file explorer

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