Some Rather Rare Windows Key Shortcuts 

By | December 10, 2020
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Some Rather Rare Windows Key Shortcuts 

Windows Key Shortcuts - Cloudeight
Here are some Windows keyboard shortcuts you don’t often see. We call them “Rare Windows Shortcuts” but EB says they’re well done 😊

Windows Key+T: Focus and scroll through items on the taskbar. Repeatedly pressing Windows Key + T cycles through all the programs in your taskbar.

Windows Key+B: Focuses the System Tray icons.

Drag+Drop taskbar buttons or System Tray icons: to reorganize them.

Shift+Click on a taskbar button: Open a program or quickly open another instance of a program.

Ctrl+Shift+Click on a taskbar button: Open a program as an administrator.

Shift+Right-click on a taskbar button: Show the window menu for the program (like XP does).

Shift+Right-click on a grouped taskbar button: Show the window menu for the group.

Ctrl+Click on a grouped taskbar button: Cycle through the windows of the group.

Drag a File to a taskbar button: to pin the file to the current application’s Jump List.

Shift+Drag a File to a taskbar button: to open a file with the current application.

Middle-Click on a taskbar button: to open a new instance of the application.

Left-Click + Drag upwards: to open the Jump List for an application.

Don’t you just love Windows keyboard shortcuts? If you commit your favorites to memory, they can really save you time!

4 thoughts on “Some Rather Rare Windows Key Shortcuts 

    1. infoave Post author

      If you have a mouse with a wheel – as most do – the wheel is also a button – you can press it. Clicking (pressing) the mouse wheel is a middle-click.

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