I love keyboard shortcuts. The more you can do without having to move your hands from keyboard to mouse the better – and the quicker!

Today I want to share a list of what you can do with the Windows key. Honestly, do you know all the stuff that you can do with it? For the purposes of this post, we’ll use the letter W as the Windows key.

W: Opens Start Menu

W+ E: Opens up Windows Explorer

W+ R: Opens the Run command.

W+ U: Opens Utility Manager

W+ L: Log Off

W+ F: Search files on your computer

W+ D: Show Desktop [will switch back and forth from all minimized and back again]

W+ F1: Windows Help Menu

W+ Pause/Break: System Properties

W+ Tab: (Vista) Cycles through open programs in the cool-looking Aero slideshow.

W+ Tab: (Other Windows) Cycles Through Buttons in Taskbar

W+ M: Minimize all open windows. (Similar to W+D, but with less power.)

W+ Shift+M: Maximize the windows you had open before minimizing

W+B: Set focus to the first System Tray Icon [which is the arrow if you enable the Hide Inactive Icons option]

CTRL+W +F: Search for computers

Do any of you have shortcuts that you use often? Are there any similar shortcuts for Macs?

From [MojoStix]