Ten Windows shortcuts worth learning, from locking your screen to finding any app.
A few keyboard shortcuts can save you minutes every day. Here are ten worth learning on Windows.
Everyday shortcuts
- Windows + L: lock your screen when you step away
- Windows + V: clipboard history, to paste something you copied earlier (turn it on the first time)
- Windows + Shift + S: take a screenshot of part of the screen
- Windows + E: open File Explorer
- Windows + D: show the desktop, and press again to bring windows back
- Alt + Tab: switch between open windows
- Windows + Left or Right arrow: snap a window to half the screen
- Ctrl + Shift + T: reopen a browser tab you closed by mistake
- Ctrl + Z: undo, and Ctrl + Y to redo
- Windows key, then type: find any app, file or setting
Make it stick
Pick two this week, such as Windows + L and Windows + V, and use them until they're automatic. Then add two more.
On a Mac? Most work with Command in place of Ctrl. Lock your screen with Control + Command + Q.
