

Shake your windows: Grab a window and shake it back and forth to minimize all other windows. Replacing 'Whatever' with whatever you want, because whatever. Shortcut Key: Windows + D You can use this shortcut to minimize all the open windows and get back to the Desktop environment. From here, you can access a number of programs by their target names. Save whatever other stuff you have open first, of course, just in case.īecome a god: God Mode is less exciting than it sounds, but still cool, giving you access to everything in the Control Panel from one folder. Shortcut Key: Windows + R This is a widely known shortcut to open the Run command window. Repeat this key press combination to restore the previous. Hide the Start screen or minimize all active windows and menus to display the desktop. The lowest process in the tree is the one stalling your application-assuming it's not vital, end it to recover your frozen window. Open a search window to find files, folders, apps, settings, and websites. Go to the CPU tab and find the frozen process, right click, and then hit Analyze Wait Chain. Click the Start button, type RESMON, and hit Enter.

Recover frozen programs: This one is from our friends at TechRadar.
#Windows shortcuts minimize software
I use it for grabbing screens of windowed games that don't work with whatever screen capture software I'm using.Ĭtrl + Shift + Click (or Enter): Run a program as admin.Ĭalibrate your colors: Click the Start button, type DCCW into the search and press Enter to give it a go. Shift + Right Click on a file to open the "extended" context menu, giving you the option to "copy as path" and make it a pasteable text (eg, C:\something\anotherthing\myfile.dat) instead of copying the file.Īlt + Print Screen: Print Screen throws an image of your desktop into the clipboard, but this key combination only captures the active window. Miscellaneous tricksĭesigner/programmer Alex Austin sent us this one : hold Shift and right click in a folder to add the option "Open PowerShell window here." Useful if you're using command line tools for modding.
#Windows shortcuts minimize full
Here are the full shortcut lists for Chrome and Firefox. This is vital.Ĭtrl + H: Open the History page in a new tab.Ĭtrl + J: Open the Downloads page in a new tab.Ĭtrl + or : Make everything on the current page bigger or smaller. Chrome and Firefox shortcutsĬtrl + Shift + T: Reopen the last closed tab. Shift + Windows key + S: Activates the snipping tool: drag a rectangle to copy a portion of your screen to the clipboard. Windows key + Shift + Right or Left Arrow: Move a window to another monitor. But youll need to maximize the windows yourself afterward. Windows + or on the NumPad: Activate magnifier. Press the Windows key and the M key to minimize all windows. Windows + Arrow keys: Snap your window all over the place.

Windows + Tab: Displays all open windows on a grid. Windows + P: Change display configuration. Windows + E: Open Explorer to 'Computer.'
