WINDOWS-KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS

The following lists will guide you through some of the keyboard shortcuts that you can use with Windows.

Windows System Key Combinations

*F1: Help

*CTRL+ESC: Open start menu

*ALT+TAB: Switch between open programs

*ALT+F4: Quit program

*SHIFT +DELETE: Delete item permanently

*Mouse click/keyboard Modifier Combinations for shell objects

-SHIFT+ double click: Runs the alternate defaults command (the second item on the menu)

-ALT+ double click: Displays properties

-SHIFT+ Right click: Displays a shortcut menu containing alternative commands

-SHIFT+ DELETE: Deletes an item immediately without placing it in the Recycle Bin

General keyboard-Only commands

*F1: Start window Help

*F10: Activates menu bar options

*SHIFT+F10: Opens a shortcut menu for the selected item (this is the same as right-clicking an object)

*CTRL +ESC: Opens the start menu (use the ARROW keys to select an item)

*CTRL +ESC or ESC: Selects the start button (press TAB to select the taskbar, or press SHIFT +F10 for a context menu)

*ALT +DOWN ARROW: Opens a drop-down list box

*ALT +TAB: Switch to another running program (hold down the ALT key and then press the TAB key to view the task-switching window)

*SHIFT: Press and hold down the SHIFT key while you insert a CD-ROM to bypass the automatic-run feature

*ALT +SPACE: Displays the main window’s System menu (from the system menu, you can restore, move, resize, minimize, maximize, or close the window)

*ALT +-(ALT +hyphen): Displays the Multiple Document Interface (MDI) child window’s System menu (from the MDI child window’s System menu, you can restore, move, minimize, maximize, or close the child window)