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[Shortcut Guide] Shortcuts list [tracker]
total list from MSFT support: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12445/windows-keyboard-shortcuts
This list will be added into #890 with v2 of shortcut guide.
| Combination | Effect |
|---|---|
| Win + Esc | Close magnification |
| Win + Enter | Narrator (Below 19h1) |
| Win + Pause | System Window |
| Win + PrtScn | Capture screenshot |
| Win + Space | Switch Keyboard Layout |
| Win + Tab | Open Timeline |
| Win + ; | Emoji Keyboard Pop up |
| Win + . | Emoji Keyboard Pop up |
| Win + , | Peek at desktop |
| Win + +/- | Magnifier |
| --- | --- |
| Win + A | Action Center |
| Win + B | Focus system tray |
| Win + C | Cortana (doesn't work on 1909) |
| Win + D | Display & hide desktop |
| Win + E | File Explorer |
| Win + F | Open Feedback Hub |
| Win + G | Game bar |
| Win + H | Dictation bar |
| Win + I | Settings |
| Win + K | Quick connect |
| Win + L | Lock PC |
| Win + M | Minimize windows |
| Win + N | Notification dialog (Need to verify min version, may be Win11 and up) |
| Win + Q | Open Search Bar |
| Win + P | Open Display Mode Selection panel |
| Win + R | Run Dialog |
| Win + S | Open Search Bar |
| Win + T | Navigate between task bar items |
| Win + U | Ease of access center |
| Win + V | Open Clipboard History |
| Win + W | Open Windows Ink Workspace Panel |
| Win + X | Quick launch menu |
| Win+Z | Snap Flyout ( win11+) |
| --- | --- |
| Win + Shift + M | Restores windows minimized with Win + M |
| Win + Shift + S | Screenshot |
| Win + Shift + T | Navigate between task bar items reversed |
| Win + Shift + Left/Right Arrow | Move entire active window to different window |
| --- | --- |
| Win + Ctrl + arrow | Switch virtual desktop |
| Win + Ctrl + Enter | Narrator (19h1 and above) |
| Win + Ctrl+F4 | Close virtual desktop |
| Win + Ctrl + D | New virtual desktop |
| Win + Ctrl + N | Narrator settings |
| Win + Ctrl + Q | Quick Assist |
| --- | --- |
| Win + Alt+ D | Toggles calendar in taskbar |
| --- | --- |
| Win + Ctrl + Shift + B | Restart Video Driver |
| --- | --- |
| Win + Shift + Ctrl + Alt | emulates the Office key |
Please add WIN+CTRL+SHIFT+B (Restart video driver) to the guide.
(If you want me to create a separate issue for this, just let me know. I can't tell if you want them all in this issue or in separate ones referenced by this issue.)
Hi @skst thanks you for the suggestion, I guess it's OK to leave the suggestion here for now.
Shift + arrows to move between screens: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/552
#301 - Shortcut key for closing virtual desktop -> WinKey+ctrl+F4 #304 - Shortcut for System panel -> Winkey + pause #397 - Win+Esc to close magnification
After looking at this issue and a bunch of the others, feels like the shortcut guide needs maybe a settings page where add these in as options that can be displayed but we just don't have room to include everything.
I think we have a common scenario and then have it be changeable IMO. #235 will be the tracking item for that.
Win + Shift + Ctrl + Alt which emulates the Office key that is a new hardware-based key on new Microsoft keyboards.
May I ask what the criteria are for determining whether a shortcut is added to the list? Others have been posted, but this is the first one I've seen to be added even though the others seem useful, too.
@skst, right now this is just us collecting all of them in a single location.
- We will have the UX update for Shortcut guide which will enable us to do configuration in the future.
- Tweak list while it would still be 'static' <- this is what i think you're thinking about
- Update settings to be user configurable.
For the 2nd option, i think this is going to be interesting due to limited screen real estate.
Thanks for the information. I asked only because I saw you reply "added" to the most recent request, and the others weren't similarly "added," so I assumed (apparently incorrectly) that they wouldn't be added.
Just curious: is this a drive by snarking to make other people feel bad for wanting to add value? Or did you want to show off your Google skills by sharing this extensive list of missing system level Win key shortcuts that you know of?
Obviously curious, since you took the time to share your feedback.
@randyrants I apologize, it wasn't meant to sound that meanspirited. An incomplete reference that you would not expect to be incomplete causes trouble. Ideally one could use it to check whether a key for AHK scripting or giving the shortcut to some other program as a global without having to worry about some headache-inducing conflict. But it can't be used for that, atm. But that part wasn't obvious to me for a while.
It's all good. Just didn't know what was missing that was "obviously" missing. To me, this works like a McDonald's menu board: they put the most useful at the top and then fill it in until it borders on information overload or the inability to find something. Without a search engine, ironically 😄
I do think having the ultimate all up list would make a great web page too.
Well, I think that the things that aren't obviously missing are perhaps the most interesting things to see by definition. At least for PowerToy users. The obvious and most useful shortcuts are already widely known. That ultimate all up webpage is probably those two in combination: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12445/windows-keyboard-shortcuts https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13810/windows-keyboard-shortcuts-accessibility Looking at it, I'm surprised that I didn't even know most of them. But I also didn't know that I didn't know about them. I would have memorized those two lists years ago, had I known there was so much to know :( Seeing those, the problem of space limitation makes sense to me now.
If space is a problem, why not go with what Google used to do for ChromeOS when you pressed 'Ctrl+Alt+Shift+?' ? That would bring up a keyboard, and depending on what key you pressed it would show what the commands for the combination of keys was.
So, what if pressing the windows key brought up the keyboard and different key combinations were grayed out keys, showing what commands are possible, and when holding down different combinations brought up a little bubble over the last key pressed that said what it did?
Example 1: I hold down the Win key, the keyboard pops open with the Win key highlighted, and all possible key commands that you can do with just the Win key in grey. I then press the A key to do 'Win+A', the A key then get highlighted, and a little bubble over the period key shows up and it says that it brings up the action menu.
Example 2: If I do 'Win+Ctrl', it would show Win and Ctrl highlighted, and the Win key commands for the 'Win+Ctrl' combination in grey. Pressing the final letter key would highlight the key and bring up the description bubble. Same for pressing Shift.
Example 3: 'Win+Ctrl+Shift' would show all three keys highlighted and B grayed out
Example 4: 'Win+Ctrl+Shift+Alt' would show all four keys highlighted, no other keys in grey, and a description bubble over Alt.
Thanks for the very detailed suggestion. I think the only issue I have (and others might not agree) is that I typically refer to the shortcut guide to find the shortcut for a particular command. For example, I can't remember the shortcut for Quick Assist, so I check the guide to find it's Win+Ctrl+Q. In your examples, I wouldn't know if it was Win or Win+Ctrl, so I'd have to try all of the combinations and hover over each key to see if it was Quick Assist.
I was thinking that the shortcut guide could reduce the size of the font to fit them all on the screen at once. They should be alphabetized or, at least, categorized to make them easy to scan.
I get that. Maybe then have a list that you can search by name of the command? Also with the list, have tabs on the side that breaks up plain Win key commands, Win+Ctrl commands, and Win+Shift commands, etc into their own section?
Though, that doesn't mean you need to go to each section to search that command, you should just be able to stay on the default section and search all the sections from there
Win+Alt+D displays the calendar (as if the user clicked on the date/time on the taskbar).
Win+. (period) opens a search panel for all of the emoji. Just found it by accident 🙂
