18 unavoidable keyboard shortcuts available in Windows XP

May 26th, 2009 by Giridhar | Posted under Windows.

shortcut1Shortcut keys help us to perform the tasks faster. These are the few shortcut keys which I use on a daily basis other than the normal cut , copy , paste keys.

* CTRL while dragging an item (Copy the selected item)
* CTRL+SHIFT while dragging an item (Create a shortcut to the selected item)
* F2 key (Rename the selected item)
* CTRL+A (Select all)
* F3 key (Search for a file or a folder)
* ALT+F4 (Close the active item, or quit the active program)
* ALT+ENTER (Display the properties of the selected object)
* ALT+SPACEBAR (Open the shortcut menu for the active window)
* CTRL+F4 (Close the active document in programs that enable you to have multiple documents open simultaneously)
* ALT+TAB (Switch between the open items)
* ALT+ESC (Cycle through items in the order that they had been opened)
* F6 key (Cycle through the screen elements in a window or on the desktop)
* F4 key (Display the Address bar list in My Computer or Windows Explorer)
* SHIFT+F10 (Display the shortcut menu for the selected item)
* ALT+SPACEBAR (Display the System menu for the active window)
* CTRL+ESC (Display the Start menu)
* CTRL+SHIFT+ESC (Open Task Manager)

You may have look at Support for more shortcut keys.

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4 Responses to “18 unavoidable keyboard shortcuts available in Windows XP”
  1. ravi says:
    May 28, 2009 at 3:47 pm

    Hello, my internet explorer always hangs after working for some time. Especially when browsing online trading portals. I have mozilla firefox also. but my trading portal doesn\’t open inmozilla. Is there any other explorer which can be used for opening sites. It should be better than iexplorer 6 above. Please help me. i am fed up with IE and facing difficulties.

  2. Girish says:
    May 28, 2009 at 5:30 pm

    There should not be any reason for not opening your trade portal on Mozila.
    which is the trade portal you use?

    there are a lot more options other than IE , I will let you know in a short while.

  3. Arias says:
    May 29, 2009 at 4:02 am

    * ALT+ENTER (View the properties for the selected item)
    * ALT+F4 (Close the active item, or quit the active program)
    * ALT+ENTER (Display the properties of the selected object)

    Isn’t the first and the last one the same thing ?
    If you fix it, please bold “* CTRL+A (Select all)” like the others (you missed the C).

    Great site btw! I just found it by random, glad I did !

  4. Girish says:
    May 29, 2009 at 10:37 am

    Typo fixed..

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