10 Keyboard Shortcuts You Might Not Know!

 1. Windows + D 

If you want to minimize all the opened applications in your windows computer, you can do so by pressing windows + D key on your keyboard. A quick one but yet very effective keyboard shortcut you should be using! 

2. Windows + 1, 2, 3, 4 

Did you know that you can use Windows + 1, Windows + 2 etc keys to open your first, second and third windows respectively? 

3. Windows + arrow keys and dragging a window to right 

You can open two windows side by side by selecting a window and dragging it to the extereme right side of you monitor. This will give you an option to open two windows side by side. 

You can also use your Windows + Left, Windows + Up or Windows + Down arrow keys to move this window 

4. Control + BackSpace and Control + Delete 

If you wish to delete a word towards the left, you can use Control + BackSpace

Similarly, If you wish to delete a word towards the left, you can use Control + Delete key on your keyboard 

5. Clipboard History 

Without wasting much of time I will start with the first shortcut key which is the clipboard history. You can access your clipboard history by pressing Windows + V key on your keyboard. this opens your clipboard history which can be accessed and navigated using the arrow keys on your keyboard. 

6. Windows + P 

Windows + P is used to open the projector preferences on your windows. You can control the monitor layout of your pc. You can choose to either turn on one, two or duplicate both of your monitors! 

7. Alt Tab and Windows Tab 

You can use Alt + Tab to navigate through all the opened application on your windows 

8. Windows + L 

This is a very handy shortcut used to lock your pc so that noone can access it without your windows pin/password. You should try to make it a habit to lock your windows computer when you are not around! 

9. Shift + End and Shift + Home 

This shortcut is used to select all the text from the cursor to home using Shift + Home key and also select all the text from the cursor to end using Shift + End key 

10. Bonus: Mouse Wheel 

You can use the Mouse Wheel click to close a tab in Google Chrome and Open a link in a new tab. This saves a lot of time if you are hunting a bug and trying to find solution of your problem everywhere on the internet!