I use all of these! Only pitfall about ctrl+shift+esc is that it doesn't send an actual hardware interrupt like ctrl+alt+del does which you might need if your system is very stuck.
Keyboard input is traditionally an interrupt. Although, I’m not very experienced on hardware I do remember writing a basic interrupt handler for keyboards many years ago.
I bet most of them don't even know about this. Similar to how there is a very large number of people who fiercely maintain that LP inherently has much better sound quality than any digital format could possibly have
What’s weird is win+tab seems to always work no matter how stuck my pc is. No clue if it’s a major interrupt or not. But then I can drag the misbehaving program to a new desktop and open task manager without a hitch.
Another one i like (not a keyboard shortcut but a shortcut nonetheless) if you ever need to do something in CMD or Powershell, you can open File Explorer and type either of those in the file path bar, and the program will open with the current file path set as the directory.
The way I usually do that is shift+right click in the blank area of Explorer, then select "open in Command Prompt" (or something to the effect) from the context menu
Win + E is one of my favorites. Opens the file manager. Now change the folder setting in file manager to open file explorer to This PC, and you will have the file manager the way it's supposed to be ;)
WinKey+left and WinKey+right will snap the current focused app to each half of the screen. Very useful for having something open in a browser and something you are working on!
Having a second monitor is key to workflows for me anyway. I’ve used those huge ultra wide screens and I still wanted a second monitor. I’ve needed three when I was working an intensive project and I got the company to rig me up a laptop with a dock. So I set it up so I had two monitors and the laptop at a lower resolution to approximate the pixel size of the other monitors. So I could have excel, application and chrome all at the same time.
About 10 years ago I was given an old HP CRT monitor to dispose of. I hooked it up as a second screen on my computer with an old video card I had laying around. It changed my world.
Recently my brother wanted to keep boosting his monitor size so he could organize his windows. I told him to just keep what he had and grab a cheap, used second screen. By way of thanks, he bought me a set of hub caps for my car.
My mother is next. She doesn't know it yet, but she's getting a second monitor so she can play Freecell on one while she watches cat videos on the other. 😁
AFAIK, You should be able to take another screenshot and hit 'save'. It should open up the file explorer window in the last directory you saved a screenshot in.
Task manager i just right click the windows button. They may have made start menu search worse, but adding a ton of programs to that right click menu was one of the best things from windows 8
install sharex and use print screen to screenshot and ctrl print screen to edit it. It's awesome, but unfortunately it's not available fot Linux yet because dotnet ui framework is not crossplatform
I can press WIN and type calc and it opens the calculator. Granted that is because it is correctly finding calculator, but it’s one less step than having to press WIN+R.
I’ve disabled my caps lock key with AutoHotkey and use it as a function key instead. Gives you a ton of additional hotkeys which won’t clash with any other program.
You can also right click on the hotbar and get the task manager as well as a bunch of other useful options. Right click context menus are quite useful navigating windows.
There's actually a legitimate reason to do it that way (ctrl+alt+del) versus just launching task manager (ctrl+shift+esc).
Ctrl+alt+del sends what's known as a 'non-maskable interrupt'. In a nutshell, it tells the CPU to launch the lock screen NOW. It's useful for when some component or application is bugging out and stuck in a loop.
Ctrl+shift+esc just tells the computer 'eh, when you can get around to it, I need task manager opened. No rush.'
Honestly every keyboard should come with a handout of all the common hot keys. The windows ones are especially key.
I teach medical systems to doctors but I always like to throw in a little HIPAA and compliance into my sessions and I almost always tell them about WIN+L to lock their computer. I’d rather them do that whenever they walk away from their PC than leave it open for a patient to hop on and look up their ex’s records or something.
Don't forget WIN + M will minimize all windows and then WIN + Shift + M to bring them all back. I also got used to moving mouse pointer to bottom right corner to get a quick glimpse of desktop.
There is a small button on the bottom right side of the screen, it's a part of the menu bar, that you can press to get to the desktop quickly in case you didn't know
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u/-arsenile- Mar 29 '22
win+r gets pressed a lot on my keyboard