Some Rather Rare Windows Key Shortcuts 

Some Rather Rare Windows Key Shortcuts 

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!