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Re: Vista Keyboard Shortcuts

jkrebo — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:55:14 GMT

Windows key shortcuts are my favorite because they never fail to impress. Winkey+E brings up an Explorer window, Winkey+R brings up the Run dialog, for example. Another favorite shortcut is using using ctrl-enter in IE. It appends "http://www." before and ".com" after whatever you type in the address bar. For example, if I type "Microsoft" and press ctrl-enter, it'll take me to "http://www.Microsoft.com". In the same vein of IE, holding down ctrl and pressing a number will take you to the corresponding tab ("ctrl-2" will take you to the second tab, "ctrl-8" will take you to tab 8, and 'ctrl-9" will take you to the last tab).

It's funny you mention backwards-compatibility.... Just the other day, I was working on an XP machine and subconsciously pressed "Winkey+Tab" to bring up Flip3D. What I found was that it cycles through items on the taskbar, much like Ctrl+Tab does in IE. Very cool!

Re: Vista Keyboard Shortcuts

Larry — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:44:10 GMT

Most of the shortcuts should work in XP as well as Vista. That's the nice thing about shortcuts, they tend to stay the same across OS'.

Re: Vista Keyboard Shortcuts

catto — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:35:35 GMT

Hey now Larry,

I love hotkeys too. I was wondering if there is an addin for xp to use the new vista windows button + a number to access quick launch items? Some pc's I use still have xp on them.

Thx,

Catto

Re: Vista Keyboard Shortcuts

Adept — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:25:54 GMT

Pressing Windows+D does the same trick. This is useful if you don't have the default quicklaunch icons displayed.