{"id":30337,"date":"2025-06-04T08:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T12:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=30337"},"modified":"2025-06-04T08:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T12:22:10","slug":"did-you-know-you-can-open-programs-pinned-to-your-taskbar-by-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/did-you-know-you-can-open-programs-pinned-to-your-taskbar-by-number\/","title":{"rendered":"Did You Know You Can Open Programs Pinned to Your Taskbar by Number?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Did You Know You Can Open Programs Pinned to Your Taskbar by Number?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve pinned program icons to your Taskbar, you don\u2019t have to click the icons to open them. This tip works with Windows 10 and Windows 11.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a little-known but quick and easy trick.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

You can use the Windows Key + a number key to open them. The programs on your taskbar are \u201cnumbered\u201d from left to right. So, the first icon is #1 and the next one to its right is #2, and so on.<\/span><\/p>\n

To open a program from its icon that\u2019s 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Open<\/span><\/p>\n

Above, you can see program icons on my taskbar: #1 is OE Classic, #2 is File Explorer, #3 is Firefox, #4 is Chrome, #5 is Microsoft Edge, and so on. Using the Windows Key + the number 4 key would open Chrome. It\u2019s easy!<\/span><\/p>\n

How useful this tip is depends on how you use your computer. But learning new things is always useful, right?<\/span><\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve pinned program icons to your Taskbar, you don\u2019t have to click the icons to open them. This tip works on Windows 10 and Windows 11.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a little-known but quick and easy trick.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

You can use the Windows Key + a number key to open them. The programs on your taskbar are \u201cnumbered\u201d from left to right. So, the first icon is #1 and the next one to its right is #2, and so on.<\/span><\/p>\n

To open a program from its icon that\u2019s 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Open<\/span><\/p>\n

Above, you can see program icons on my taskbar: #1 is OE Classic, #2 is File Explorer, #3 is Firefox, #4 is Chrome, #5 is Microsoft Edge, and so on. Using the Windows Key + the number 4 key would open Chrome. It\u2019s easy!<\/span><\/p>\n

How useful this tip is depends on how you use your computer. But learning new things is always useful, right?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Did You Know You Can Open Programs Pinned to Your Taskbar by Number? If you\u2019ve pinned program icons to your Taskbar, you don\u2019t have to click the icons to open them. This tip works with Windows 10 and Windows 11. Here\u2019s a little-known but quick and easy trick.\u00a0 You can use the Windows Key + a\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3948,4299,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30338,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30337\/revisions\/30338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}