How to Open Programs On Your Taskbar by Number
This tip works in both Windows 10 and Windows 11
If you’ve pinned program icons to your Taskbar, you don’t have to click the icons to open them.
Here’s a little-known trick.
You can use the Windows Key + a number key to open them. The programs on your taskbar are “numbered” from left to right. So, the first icon is #1 and the next one to its right is #2, and so on.
To open a program from its icon that’s pinned to your taskbar, hold down the Windows key + the number key that corresponds to the location of the pinned program icon on your taskbar. For example, the Windows key + the number 3 key will open the third program from the left of the program icons pinned to your Taskbar.
On my computer, the 3rd pinned program icon from the left happens to be Firefox. So, on my laptop, Windows Key + 3 opens Firefox. Irfanview is the seventh pinned program icon on my taskbar. So, if I hold down the Windows key and press the number 7 key, Irfanview opens.
How useful this tip is, depends on how you use your computer. But learning new things is always useful, right?
Good morning to the best tech people on the internet. I just tried this and it doesn’t work on my Windows 11 computer. Is there something else I need to do?
Neat Tip and Thank You.
I like that idea. Hope I can get use to doing that.
Only PROGRAMS I think. It didn’t open my system program which is my search task at the very first left side. It went to the first program icon! I Could be wrong.
Dawn
😎That’s why the title is “How to Open Programs On Your Taskbar by Number”… and the first sentence says “If you’ve pinned program icons to your Taskbar, you don’t have to click the icons to open them. “.