Favourite keyboard shortcut

From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)29 Jan 2020 17:42
To: ANT_THOMAS 10 of 30
I must say I like the Windows taskbar where you can preview, select, and close windows from the taskbar.
From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)29 Jan 2020 18:49
To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX) 11 of 30
Nonsense. It was only yesterday when I probably had over twenty, (spread across three machines and wishing I had more than four screens), and was accessing each one of them frequently.
From: Lucy (X3N0PH0N)29 Jan 2020 18:58
To: ANT_THOMAS 12 of 30
Probably win+shift+x which toggles my main monitor input between my PC and my Switch so I can play Switch games without having to piss around with my monitor's shitty menus.

A more standard one: ctrl+r for recursive search in shell.
From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)29 Jan 2020 19:01
To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX) 13 of 30
> I must say I like the Windows taskbar where you can preview, select, and close windows from the taskbar.

1. That's not exclusive to Windows.

2. You don't have enough windows to forget what's on each one. :P

From: graphitone29 Jan 2020 19:26
To: ANT_THOMAS 14 of 30
Ctrl - shift - esc for quick access to task manager and ctrl+win+c which swaps between colour or black and white in Windows 10. Come in quite handy at work that one when people hit it by mistake and have no idea how to change it back.
EDITED: 29 Jan 2020 19:26 by GRAPHITONE
From: milko29 Jan 2020 19:31
To: ANT_THOMAS 15 of 30
ctrl-shift-T to unclose a browser tab.
From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)29 Jan 2020 19:31
To: Lucy (X3N0PH0N) 16 of 30
And Ctrl-G to cancel it properly (unlike Esc which populates the command).

I'm tempted to install hstr so it gives more than one match at a time, so it works better for stuff I only half remember.

From: Peter (BOUGHTONP)29 Jan 2020 19:39
To: graphitone 17 of 30
If you want to screw with people, on some Windows setups, right-side Ctrl-Shift can switch from left-to-right to right-to-left text - easy enough to do in front of them without them catching it, plus you have to use the left-side to undo it. :>
From: Lucy (X3N0PH0N)29 Jan 2020 19:50
To: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 18 of 30
I actually unbind ctrl+g because I hit it a lot when I'm going for ctrl+f. ctrl+c cancels out of it fine.

For most stuff I just use autosuggestions.
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)29 Jan 2020 19:55
To: Lucy (X3N0PH0N) 19 of 30
I disable the caps LOCK FOR SAME REASON.
From: Lucy (X3N0PH0N)29 Jan 2020 19:59
To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX) 20 of 30
I make caps lock a ctrl key.
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)29 Jan 2020 20:00
To: Lucy (X3N0PH0N) 21 of 30
Use it (ctrl) a lot?
From: Lucy (X3N0PH0N)29 Jan 2020 20:14
To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX) 22 of 30
Yeah, pretty much the only ctrl key I use.
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)29 Jan 2020 20:25
To: Lucy (X3N0PH0N) 23 of 30
I use ctrl-c a lot in the terminal.
From: Lucy (X3N0PH0N)29 Jan 2020 20:34
To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX) 24 of 30
Yeah, in terminal I use a lot of ctrl+c,d,f,p,a,e,h,w,k

I use a lot of them shell shortcuts -_-
 
From: ANT_THOMAS29 Jan 2020 21:13
To: ALL25 of 30
Ctrl+1 (to8) in a browser to switch between first 8 tabs.
Ctrl+9 to go to the last/furthest right tab.
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)29 Jan 2020 21:58
To: ALL26 of 30
Also, ctrl is the hack workaround for the infamous one-button mouse.
From: Chris (CHRISSS)30 Jan 2020 21:01
To: ANT_THOMAS 27 of 30
Win+x, u u to quickly shutdown Windows. Although I've done this lots of times and not realised Notepad was open and my laptop has been on in my bag all night (my work one stays on when the lid is closed).

Not a keyboard shortcut but you can customise Explorer so it defaults to starting at This PC.
From: Dave!! 2 Feb 2020 14:17
To: ALL28 of 30
Winkey+D to minimise all windows, then Winkey+D to restore them all.
Winkey+L to quickly lock my work machine
 
From: ANT_THOMAS31 Mar 2020 08:54
To: ALL29 of 30
Alt+S to send an email in Outlook.

Found this useful whilst currently working from home over a laggy RDP connection to my work desktop PC, where every mouse move is slow. The less mouse the better.