30 Windows 7 Hotkeys: Ultimate Guide

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1. Wow, Thank you!

2. Holy crap I love not needing my mouse!

3. VERY NICE…

4. Those are great, especially the Ctrl + Shift + Esc thing, the Win + E and the Alt + Up
   The rest of the awesome (Win + Tab for example) I knew already 🙂
   Windows hotkeys are always awesome.
   Thanks!

5. please I want to know hotkeys tell me the below answer

6. Which button is windows

7. thanks bro.!

   it’s useful for me.

8. There is also Windows + D to show the desktop.

9. ITS VERY USEFUL.

10. An also VERY USEFUL one is: F2 for renaming files. Maybe a lot already know this, but for those who doesn’t, It’s handy.

11. An also VERY USEFUL one is: F2 for renaming files. Maybe a lot already know this, but for those who doesn’t, It’s handy.

12. the hot keys u provided is absolutely useful to me to improve speed of working..ty for this 🙂

13. Thanks for this, really useful stuff!

14. nice nice one

15. really useful post ,,,,,,

16. very very nice

17. very nice

18. Show us how to configure a hot key to run a user program.

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20. Awesome.

21. thanks for this special keydoad short cut realy it was helpfull…..i appreciated thanks 
     

22. Awesome! Although is there a hotkey to make something invisible like on a mac? Apple key+h hides the current window (Cannot be found!) in a mac is it possible to do this in windows?

23. shift+right click on task-bar button i did not understand

24. nice read! I learned a lot from this.
    But, you forgothe most usefule shortcut (IMO) = windows + R.

25. @oli –
    Check out this page:
    http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/23825-folder-icon-change-windows-7-default-folder-icon.html – it offers a tutorial on how to set Windows Explorer folder Shell Icons, via a change to the Registry. I’m not 100% sure how this can be done on a per-folder basis but I’m sure that if you can add a key like this (ie. running it as a batch script) then it would do the trick for you.
    Also, look at these two commands: “popd” and “pushd” – let’s you store the current folder location and retreive it again later from within your batch script.

26. how to quickly change an icon. for instance a forlder icon. there must be a hot-key or some way of making one.

27. Thank You

28. it still does not define what a hotkey is

29. SUCH A USEFULL INFORMATION I LIKE IT VERY MUCH

30. thanks, I like it. 🙂

31. I road tested every single one and the only one that would not stick was aero peek on-screen,but this is so amazing to see some class moves and so simple like before,i never done the Vista thing and have windows 7 pro.
    Thank you so much for a 100% working insight to what half these bloody buttons do,thank you so much sheer bliss thanks just book mark it until im used to the ways of the keys simples…..ta.

32. Those Win + (Right,Left, Up & Down) Arrows is very useful shortcut keys for me..
    Thanks for this guide… 30% of those keys i didnt knew, not until now.. 🙂

33. windows+tab i could not any aero tasks………..

    i also tryed with ctrl+window+tab

    • Hi! you have to enable them. One way easy way to do this is simply changing your theme to one of the basic windows themes.

34. I tried few on Vista but they didn’t work.

35. Ok thanks for info

36. Thanks:-) for info. .

37. Wow, this was extremely helpful, thank you so much! I did a lot of searching around for hotkeys, and this helps me so much!

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38. Thanks, it was much appreciated

39. Great tips! Thanks I didn’t even know over half of these!

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41. thank you very much great article

42. Thanks for these great info!

43. So what’s the difference between a hotkey and a keyboard shortcut?

44. Thanks,it really helped.

45. thank you,i love you

46. thanks for the info. I really need this info!!

47. i love the Ctrl-Win-Tab thing, i think it is legendary. browsing through my open windows could never be easier.
    Thanks:)

48. Really awesome hot keys. thanks. very assential keys…. love window + tab key, easy and flexible to use……..

49. Thanks for providing this wonderful shortcut keys. It is just awesome and I tried all of them and they are pretty much easy to understand and remember.

50. i love you! i was looking for a program to sorta mimic the mac osx dashboard, i didn’t know win+g did that! yayz! yay

51. Ctrl + Windows + F
    Search for computers if you are on a network.

    Should say:
    Ctrl + Windows + F
    Search for computers if you are joined to a domain.

    Windows + Tab
    It will launch the Windows Aero task switcher.

    You should mention ”
    Ctrl + Windows + Tab will keep all open windows and applications in Task Switcher until you click on one of them, bringing that one to the front.

52. When doing the aero desktop preview, continue to hold down the alt-key and hit ctrl and use the up and down or left and right keys to move between open windows. Which ever is in front is in focus.

53. Does anyone know what “WIN + m” does.

    • Why don’t you try it ??

    • i already tried

    • minimize all open windows

54. The list of Windows shortcuts are really good and useful. There are some features implemented with shortcuts which are not available with Windows Vista.

55. Thanks you for your post – screenshots can tell more than hundreds of words.

    Here’s a full list of Windows 7 hotkeys btw.

56. Is there a way to disable any of these shortcuts particularly the WIN+SPACE? I never use the eye-candy stuff in windows 7 and I would like to use that shortcut for a particular application. Thanks.

    • Oh I’d like to disable some of these hotkeys as well. I used to have some of them assigned to specific tasks of mine when I used XP, now I can’t use them anymore… 🙁

57. that's a good informationis there the other hotkey anyway??

58. I have Windows explorer, and I like to play games on FB, but the resolution is too big, and I can't figure out how to get it to fit on my screen. HELP!! I know there is a hot key to minimize, but I can't find it anywhere!

    • try   using this 

      ctrl ( control ) + scrolling on your mouse

      just  fine tune  between that

59. Awesome! Thanks for the user friendly screenshots!

60. I like these except I don't have a freakin task manager on Vista!!

    • Try going to the start button then click it and in the search programs and files box type in task or taskmgr. you should see either taskmgr.exe or view run running processes with task manager, Im not 100% sure with vista it's been quite a while since I used it

61. This is a great post! I love it because of the pictures that go along with it. Being a computer repair technician, I think that I should probably study most of these and memorize them. 🙂 Thanks!

62. thanks alot i just a lot i just got started on windows 7 a week ago will bookmark

63. On the top-right side of your keyboard you will find a button Pause(also called Break). In most keyboards it is given next to Print Screen button. I hope this clears up the confusion.

64. what is “windows + pause” WHat is Pause?

65. I just miss shift+f10 to show properties aka right button when mouseless or in kvm crappy keyboards. Life saver some times.

66. Thanks, very good info

67. On the top-right side of your keyboard you will find a button Pause(also called Break). In most keyboards it is given next to Print Screen button. I hope this clears up the confusion.

68. what is “windows + pause” WHat is Pause?

69. I just miss shift+f10 to show properties aka right button when mouseless or in kvm crappy keyboards. Life saver some times.

70. Thanks, very good info

71. what is “windows + pause” WHat is Pause?

    • On the top-right side of your keyboard you will find a button Pause(also called Break). In most keyboards it is given next to Print Screen button. I hope this clears up the confusion.

    • thanks dude its realy helpful

    • pause is a button in the corner of the keyboard, on the right top, it’s pause – break but it is the same as pause.

    • PODA WASTE

72. I just miss shift+f10 to show properties aka right button when mouseless or in kvm crappy keyboards. Life saver some times.

    • alt+enter

73. Thanks, very good info

74. Nice guide, I wasn't aware of most of those hot keys!

75. Thanks 😉